Are you sure? Have your apps passed Platinum testing without shortcuts on all menu
item? We were asked to have a shortcut for every menu item in the documentation that
explained why our app failed the testing. We added shortcuts and passed the testing
in 8/99. The specification reads:
For each menu command, verify a unique shortcut is assigned. Only About <appname>
does not require one...
However, we have added more menu items now.
By the way, we have a menu item that wipes out an atbat's data (not undoable) and we
didn't want to assign it a shortcut. They told us to use a number as a shortcut but
that all menu items must have a shortcut.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Sabram [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 2:23 PM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Re: Menu shortcut delima
You don't have to have ALL of your menu options take a shortcut. I suggest you make,
under your assumption, the seven least used items not have a shortcut and call it at
that. One of our apps has fifteen menu items and only twelve of them have shortcuts..
The ones that you usually don't want to shortcut are commands connected with deletion
to keep a bad graffiti pen stroke from accidentally removing something.
Steve
ScorePAD Support wrote:
> I have run out of menu shortcuts. I've used A-Z and 0-9 and I still have 7 menu
>items left. The Palm Platinum UI spec requires that menu shortcuts be unique
>throughout the entire app. Once you use a shortcut, it can only be reused on another
>screen for the exact same menu function. We had to have our app re-tested after
>passing the Gremlin, memory leak, beaming, and other difficult tests simply for menu
>shortcuts and we don't want that to happen again.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
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