How to add a shortcut key to a menu item

[Boris Rogge]

Hi all,

what would be the best way to assign a shortcut key to a certain menu item using the MenuStrip control and the RadMenuItem class.

Thanks,

boris

[Dimitar Kapitanov]

Hello Boris Rogge,

We have a KB article describing how to add shortcuts to RadMenu so you could take a look at:
http://www.telerik.com/support/KB/article/b454K-tmb-b454T-ckd-b454c-ckd.aspx

Best wishes,
Dimitar Kapitanov
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[Lorenzo]

Hi. I have to build a standard menu, like the IE7 menù. I want add a shortcut on the various menu items. I can add a shortcut only if there is a click event handler associated to the item. If there isn't the event handler, like the top menu item File, the shortcut doesnt work! (when i click Alt+F nothing happen.... i want see the sub menu items, like Open, Save....)
How I can do this? And what I have to do to see the shortcut keys near menu items description? (Ex: Save     Alt+S)
Thanks!
Lorenzo

[Jack]

Hi Lorenzo,

The current version of RadMenu does not support mnemonics. Instead we support keyboard shortcuts based on command bindings. This way, there is no possibility to assign shortcut to a menu item not bound with some command. This is an issue and we will fix it in one of the future versions.

Regarding to your second question, use the HintText property of RadMenuItem to specify its shortcut description.

 
Best wishes,
Jack
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[Lorenzo]

Hi, thank you for fast response!
I solved my problem adding an event handler for click to the top menu item File and adding inside the method the following statement:

radMenuItem_File.ShowChildItems();

Thanks!
Lorenzo