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jedivader
jedivader

Reputation: 847

How to remove the RichEdit shortcuts?

As described here, RichEdit controls have a lot of built-in shortcuts for various functions.

I have TRichEdit controls in a Delphi 7 application where I would like to remove some (but probably not all) of those shortcuts. There is no such method described in msdn.

I am currently simply using OnKeyDown and OnKeyUp event handlers for this purpose, but this isn't a very elegant solution, since I have to add code for every TRichEdit control, and often I'm adding OnKeyDown and OnKeyUp event handlers only for this.

I would like to implement a more elegant solution that deals with those shortcuts globally, like using an interceptor class, but I don't know how to intercept and discard those shortcuts. Any ideas?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 882

Answers (1)

David Heffernan
David Heffernan

Reputation: 612904

You could add your own shortcut handlers that do nothing. Add an action list and add an action. Use the action's ShortCut and SecondaryShortCuts properties to hijack the shortcuts you are targeting. Add on OnExecute handler for the action that does nothing, or perhaps beeps to indicate an un-handled short cut.

I don't know for sure that this will work having never tried it, but I believe it should.

Upvotes: 1

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