Loading the Accelerator-Table Resource

An application loads an accelerator-table resource by calling the LoadAccelerators function and specifying the instance handle of the application whose executable file contains the resource and the name or identifier of the resource. LoadAccelerators loads the specified accelerator table into memory and returns the handle of the accelerator table.

An application can load an accelerator-table resource at any time. Usually, a single-threaded application loads its accelerator table before entering its main message loop. An application that uses multiple threads typically loads the accelerator-table resource for a thread before entering the message loop for the thread. An application or thread might also use multiple accelerator tables, each associated with a particular window in the application. Such an application would load the accelerator table for the window each time the user activated the window. For more information about threads, see Processes and Threads.