Description

We've added Accelerators to MenuItems #5211.

This spec proposes adding Accelerators to VisualElement. WinUI and Catalyst both support Accelerators at the base view level.

This spec is partially in response to #12004 where Accelerators will give users much more fine-grained control at the view level vs at a global level.

One of the primary reasons to use Accelerators over a Generic keyboard listener, is that this this lets the OS know what KeyCommands you've implemented short cut behavior against. With this information the OS can provide information to readers and better visual hints about available commands.

(Public) API Changes

VisualElement

Properties

Usage Scenarios

<StackLayout>
     <StackLayout.Accelerators>
                 <Accelerator Invoked="OnInvoked" Key="f" Modifiers="ctrl+space">
     </StackLayout.Accelertors>
</StackLayout>

Backward Compatibility

N/A

Difficulty

Medium