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Specifies a key combination that fires the onClick event of a menu object.

Property of

Menu

Description

Use the shortCut property to provide a quick way to execute a menu command with the keyboard. For example, if you assign the character string "CTRL+S" to a menu option’s shortCut property, the user can execute that menu option by pressing Ctrl+S.

The value you specify with the shortCut property is displayed next to the prompt you specify with the Text property.

To view a list of dBASE keyboard combinations, see topics:

dBASE Plus Classic keyboard mappings

Brief Editor keyboard mappings