Thread Subject: Menu Accelerators don't include number pad?

I set some menu accelerators to 1, 2, 3 and 4. When running the GUI, if I use the row of numbers at the top of the keyboard, this works fine. If I use the number pad, nothing happens. Obviously, this behavior is less than ideal. Does anybody know what's going on here?

"Andy " <theorigamist@gmail.com> wrote in message <h6uspq$1cn$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> I set some menu accelerators to 1, 2, 3 and 4. When running the GUI, if I use the row of numbers at the top of the keyboard, this works fine. If I use the number pad, nothing happens. Obviously, this behavior is less than ideal. Does anybody know what's going on here?

I assume in your figure1_KeyPressFcn you have some code that grabs what the current character is:

currChar = get(handles.figure1,'CurrentCharacter');

What you may also be interested in is the current key. This is different. MATLAB sees the top keys as '1','2','3', etc. and the numpad keys as 'numpad1','numpad2','numpad3', etc., even though the 'CurrentCharacter' is the same between them. Try something like this in your key handler function:

currKey = get(handles.figure1,'CurrentKey');
if strcmp(currKey,'numpad1') || strcmp(currKey,'1')
     Do menu stuff...
elseif...

"Ryan" <rgehmli@sandia.gov> wrote in message <h7ho6o$a1v$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> "Andy " <theorigamist@gmail.com> wrote in message <h6uspq$1cn$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > I set some menu accelerators to 1, 2, 3 and 4. When running the GUI, if I use the row of numbers at the top of the keyboard, this works fine. If I use the number pad, nothing happens. Obviously, this behavior is less than ideal. Does anybody know what's going on here?
>
> I assume in your figure1_KeyPressFcn you have some code that grabs what the current character is:
>
> currChar = get(handles.figure1,'CurrentCharacter');
>
> What you may also be interested in is the current key. This is different. MATLAB sees the top keys as '1','2','3', etc. and the numpad keys as 'numpad1','numpad2','numpad3', etc., even though the 'CurrentCharacter' is the same between them. Try something like this in your key handler function:
>
> currKey = get(handles.figure1,'CurrentKey');
> if strcmp(currKey,'numpad1') || strcmp(currKey,'1')
> Do menu stuff...
> elseif...

Thanks, this worked perfectly.