Accelerator and Shortcut Keys

Keyboard accelerators and shortcut keys are crucial to make IFS Applications more efficient to use, and use without a mouse or other pointing device.

• Accelerators should be implemented on:
  • Menus
  • Buttons (excluding OK and Cancel which use <Enter> and <Esc> by default)

• Accelerators should not be implemented on:
  • Data items (e.g. data fields, combo boxes, checkboxes and radio buttons)
  • Group boxes
  • Tabs

• Shortcut-keys which are reserved by the system and should not be used:
  
  <CTRL> + <1> - <9>
  <CTRL> + <SHIFT> + <A>
  <CTRL> + <SHIFT> + <F>
  <CTRL> + <K>
  <CTRL> + <SHIFT> + <R>
  <CTRL> + <S>
• Keys that should never be used in shortcuts by the applications since they are considered as system keys or used by the framework:
  
  <UP>
  <DOWN>
  <LEFT>
  <RIGHT>
  <ENTER>
  <SPACE>
  <TAB>
  <ESC>
  <F1> - <F12>