Howto make a KeyCombination with a Shortcut Modifier?

Question

Maybe I'm missing something really obvious but I can't seem to define a keycombination using the platform-independent shortcut modifier. According to http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2.0/api/javafx/scene/input/KeyCombination.html the following should work:
menuItem.setAccelerator(KeyCombination.keyCombination("Shortcut+C"));...but it doesn't. This actually puts 'Shortcut + C' in the menu item (hardly ideal) and it doesn't work on Win7. I also tried:
menuItem.setAccelerator(new KeyCodeCombination(KeyCode.C, KeyCombination.SHORTCUT_ANY));...same problem.
How can I specify a platform-independent keycode combination, ideally as a string so it that it can be shunted off to a preferences file?
Thanks

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you mean. I can press Alt+F and the file menu opens fine. Tested on Windows 7 with JavaFX 2.1b18.
package hs.javafx;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Menu;
import javafx.scene.control.MenuBar;
import javafx.scene.control.MenuItem;
import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class MenuTest extends Application {
  @Override
  public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
    MenuBar menuBar = new MenuBar();
    menuBar.getMenus().add(new Menu("_File") {{
      setMnemonicParsing(true);
      getItems().add(new MenuItem("Open..."));
    BorderPane borderPane = new BorderPane();
    borderPane.setTop(menuBar);
    primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(borderPane, 300, 250));
    primaryStage.show();
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Application.launch(MenuTest.class, args);
}