What is the difference between an accelerators and a hotkey?
A. Iain Clarke Quoted :- People use the two names interchangably. Hot Key is a common user name for an accelerator. Being pedantic… An accelerator is a part of an accelerator table. (LoadAccelerator, TranslateAccelerator, etc.) It only works when your application has the keyboard focus. A Hot Key is a a system wide key (RegisterHotKey, UnregisterHotKey). When pressed, windows send a WM_HOTKEY message to you. It works all the time. You could use it to make a certain key combination do something even when your application is hidden. (eg. screen capture, etc). I would not recommend having it active all the time, as it may collide with accelerators of other applications. James R. Twine Quoted :- Some also confuse one or both of those words with a “mnemonic”, which is the underlined character you get on dialog controls allowing you to focus or activate that control using the
