Erradic menu shortcut behavior

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I've created a menu for my MDI and used the standard (I thought) & character for creating an underlined shortcut

&Fil
E&xi
etc

At design time, they appear. At run time, they do not... UNLESS I actually use the shortcut keys from my keyboard ATL+F for example, takes me to the File menu and I can see all the shortcuts underlined. Once it loses focus, the underlines are gone again. Clicking with the mouse does NOT display them.

VS.NET 2003

Thanks!
 
Also happening with buttons on my Child form. When I press ALT, all the underlines display. Very strange. Hopefully just a setting I'm missing somewhere. Even tried creating a new project and it did the same thing. Running Win XP Pro


----- BillyB wrote: ----

I've created a menu for my MDI and used the standard (I thought) & character for creating an underlined shortcut

&Fil
E&xi
etc

At design time, they appear. At run time, they do not... UNLESS I actually use the shortcut keys from my keyboard ATL+F for example, takes me to the File menu and I can see all the shortcuts underlined. Once it loses focus, the underlines are gone again. Clicking with the mouse does NOT display them.

VS.NET 2003

Thanks!
 
This is actually standard behaviour under Windows XP (run any other app and
see for yourself)

I'm not keen on it either...

AndyC

BillyB said:
Also happening with buttons on my Child form. When I press ALT, all the
Click to expand...
underlines display. Very strange. Hopefully just a setting I'm missing
somewhere. Even tried creating a new project and it did the same thing.
Running Win XP Pro.
----- BillyB wrote: -----

I've created a menu for my MDI and used the standard (I thought) &
Click to expand...
character for creating an underlined shortcut:
&File
E&xit
etc.

At design time, they appear. At run time, they do not... UNLESS I
Click to expand...
actually use the shortcut keys from my keyboard ATL+F for example, takes me
to the File menu and I can see all the shortcuts underlined. Once it loses
focus, the underlines are gone again. Clicking with the mouse does NOT
display them.
 
* =?Utf-8?B?QmlsbHlC?= said:
I've created a menu for my MDI and used the standard (I thought) & character for creating an underlined shortcut:

&File
E&xit
etc.

At design time, they appear. At run time, they do not... UNLESS I
actually use the shortcut keys from my keyboard ATL+F for example, takes
me to the File menu and I can see all the shortcuts underlined. Once it
loses focus, the underlines are gone again. Clicking with the mouse
does NOT display them.
Click to expand...

This behavior is by design since Windows 2000.

223552: Keyboard Navigation Indicators Are Not Present
<URL:http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=223552>

<URL:http://www.google.de/groups?selm=#Fh#[email protected]>
 
Well how about that... That actually briefly occurred to me, but then I saw that the VS IDE does have the underlines visible all the time. Should have followed that hunch further and looked at some other apps

Thank you

Bill


----- (e-mail address removed) wrote: ----

This is actually standard behaviour under Windows XP (run any other app an
see for yourself

I'm not keen on it either..

Andy
 
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