One of the original keyboard shortcuts for selecting menu entries were accelerator keys.
As mentioned earlier in the chapter, accelerator keys are specific key combinations, usually
the Ctrl key combined with another key, or function keys, that are unique within the
entire application. Each of these key combinations triggers one menu event function.
The way that accelerator keys work is similar to the way menus work. They are also an
application resource that is defined in a table in the resource tab of the workspace pane.
Each table entry has an object ID and a key code combination. After you define the
accelerators, you can attach functionality to the object IDs. You can also assign accelerator
entries the same object ID as the corresponding menu entry so that you have to
define only a single entry in the application message map.