Short Cut Underlines on button controls

[Scott Wolfington]

Hey all,

I'm experiencing something that seems strange. I'm creating some
buttons on a modal dialog like this:

CONTROL ADD BUTTON,   hMainDlg&, %frmMain_cmdAbout,"&About",     23, 173, 45, 15, CALL cbcmdAbout
CONTROL ADD BUTTON,   hMainDlg&, %frmMain_cmdHelp, "&Help",      70, 173, 45, 15, CALL cbcmdHelp
CONTROL ADD BUTTON,   hMainDlg&, %frmMain_cmdBack, "< &Back",   200, 173, 45, 15, CALL cbcmdBack

I'm using the ampersands to create shortcuts for the buttons. The
weird thing is that the "underlines" on the buttons don't show up
until I actually hit the ALT key, after running the software. If
I never hit the ALT key while running the software, the underlines
never appear. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Scott

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Scott Wolfington




[This message has been edited by Scott Wolfington (edited March 05, 2003).]

[Lance Edmonds]

That is a Windows 2000 feature (and possibly some other versions of Windows too). It can be enabled/disabled through Control Panel.


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[Scott Wolfington]

Interesting. I am, indeed, running Windows 2000. Thanks Lance!

Scott


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[This message has been edited by Scott Wolfington (edited March 05, 2003).]

[Doug Gamble]

Where in control panel is this setting?

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Thanks,

Doug Gamble
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[Lance Edmonds]

I'm not near a Win2K machine to be able to tell you right now... it may possibly be under Internet Explorer's options too.

The option is called something like "show keyboard shortcuts" or something equally obtuse.


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[Eric Pearson]

Doug -

Right-click on the Windows 2000 desktop and select Properties. Then select the Effects tab and you'll see a checkbox marked "Hide keyboard navigation indicators until I use the Alt key".

-- Eric


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[Lance Edmonds]

I was close! Thanks Eric.

Note that Display Properties|Effects is available via Control Panel.

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[Tom Hanlin]

Thanks Eric, that's much better! Sheesh, Microsoft!!!

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[Doug Gamble]

Thanks Eric...some days I feel like a need a secret decoder ring
to work in M$ products!

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Thanks,

Doug Gamble
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