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Originally Posted by KevinH
And macs do not need or use menu accelerator keys as they have a unified menu bar and system defined keys to access all menus using the keyboard.
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Why do Mac aficionados always raise this red herring.
Windows Accelerator keys are not needed to access menus implemented via the Win32 C++ Menu library - which is most of them, and what I believe Qt uses under the hood. I can traverse such menus,
including Sigil's, with one finger. Pressing the Alt key gets me to the first menu item (e.g, File) (i.e. its a universal "Focus on Menu" key) from there I can use the arrow keys to traverse the menu tree.
The primary use of Accelerator keys (Alt+x) is to navigate directly to user input objects (buttons, checkboxes, text boxes, etc) within a form like window (dialogue boxes and the like).
I don't make as much use of Accelerator keys as I once did: a) some applications don't have them at all, b) others have duplicates on the same window (e.g. three Alt+Gs), c) and others are incomplete - e.g. a checkbox is added with no accelerator.
But there are times when their presence comes in handy.
BR