Customize Application ShortCuts

Hello

  Take a look at this article, it may help you

http://www.blong.com/Conferences/BorCon2002/Actions/2110.htm

this seemed fun so i did it :)

here's the unit code .. it won't be hard to reproduce

but if you wish you can get the whole project at:
http://lee.nover.has.his.evilside.org/isapi/pas2html.dll/pas2html?File=/delphi/Projects/ActionListEditor

zipped source in the Backups dir

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unit Unit1;

interface

uses
  Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms,
  Dialogs, StdCtrls, Menus, ActnList, ComCtrls, ImgList;

type
  TForm1 = class(TForm)
    Images: TImageList;
    lvActions: TListView;
    actsMain: TActionList;
    btnLoad: TButton;
    btnClear: TButton;
    btnSave: TButton;
    pmMain: TPopupMenu;
    txtCaption: TEdit;
    Label1: TLabel;
    txtHint: TEdit;
    Label2: TLabel;
    txtImage: TEdit;
    Label3: TLabel;
    Action1: TAction;
    Action2: TAction;
    Action3: TAction;
    Action4: TAction;
    Action5: TAction;
    btnApply: TButton;
    udImage: TUpDown;
    Action11: TMenuItem;
    Action21: TMenuItem;
    Action31: TMenuItem;
    Action41: TMenuItem;
    Action51: TMenuItem;
    StatusBar1: TStatusBar;
    btnRestore: TButton;
    procedure btnLoadClick(Sender: TObject);
    procedure btnClearClick(Sender: TObject);
    procedure btnSaveClick(Sender: TObject);
    procedure lvActionsSelectItem(Sender: TObject; Item: TListItem;
      Selected: Boolean);
    procedure FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
    procedure btnApplyClick(Sender: TObject);
    procedure btnRestoreClick(Sender: TObject);
  private
    { Private declarations }
  public
    { Public declarations }
  end;

var
  Form1: TForm1;

implementation

{$R *.dfm}

procedure TForm1.btnLoadClick(Sender: TObject);
var I: Integer;
    tmpAct: TAction;
begin
     lvActions.Clear;
     for I:=0 to actsMain.ActionCount-1 do
     begin
       tmpAct:=TAction(actsMain.Actions[I]);
       with lvActions.Items.Add do
       begin
         Data:=tmpAct;
         ImageIndex:=tmpAct.ImageIndex;
         Caption:=tmpAct.Caption;
         SubItems.Add(tmpAct.Hint);
       end;
     end;
end;

procedure TForm1.btnClearClick(Sender: TObject);
begin
     lvActions.Clear;
end;

procedure TForm1.btnSaveClick(Sender: TObject);
var I: Integer;
    tmpAct: TAction;
begin
     for I:=0 to lvActions.Items.Count-1 do
         with lvActions.Items[I] do
         begin
           tmpAct:=TAction(Data);
           tmpAct.ImageIndex:=ImageIndex;
           tmpAct.Caption:=Caption;
           tmpAct.Hint:=SubItems[0];
         end;
end;

procedure TForm1.lvActionsSelectItem(Sender: TObject; Item: TListItem;
  Selected: Boolean);
begin
     if Item = nil then exit;
     txtCaption.Text:=Item.Caption;
     txtHint.Text:=Item.SubItems[0];
     udImage.Position:=Item.ImageIndex;
end;

procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
begin
     udImage.Max:=Images.Count-1;
end;

procedure TForm1.btnApplyClick(Sender: TObject);
begin
     if lvActions.Selected = nil then exit;
     with lvActions.Selected do
     begin
       Caption:=txtCaption.Text;
       SubItems[0]:=txtHint.Text;
       ImageIndex:=udImage.Position;
     end;
end;

procedure TForm1.btnRestoreClick(Sender: TObject);
begin
     lvActionsSelectItem(lvActions, lvActions.Selected, true);
end;

end.

ohh I forgot about Shortcut :)
well that's easy .. simply put a THotKey on the form and use it like any other edits in the example

Lee,

Nice code! BTW, how did you get such a custom URL like this?

http://lee.nover.has.his.evilside.org

tnx, from a 'friend' :)
traded some hosts hehe