accelerator keys

[Richard]

Is there a way to duplicate the accelerator key for
controls which live on separate pages of a tab control.
i.e. to have a button called &Button1 on one tab and
another button called &Button2 on another tab, both
buttons have Alt-B as their accelerator?

 

[Tian Min Huang]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for your post.

Based on my experience and research, an accelerator key can only be mapped
to a control, other controls with the same accelerator will not take
effect. To work around this problem, I suggest that you can dynamically
chage the Text of the controls. Please refer to the following code snippet:

//-------------code snippet--------------------
private void tabControl1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender,
System.EventArgs e)
{
if(this.tabControl1.SelectedTab.Text == "Tab1")
{
this.button1.Text = "&Button1";
this.button2.Text = "Button2";
}
else
{
this.button1.Text = "Button1";
this.button2.Text = "&Button2";
}
}
//---------------end of----------------------------

Hope this helps.

Regards,

HuangTM
Microsoft Online Partner Support
MCSE/MCSD

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[Radek Cerny]

Maybe this could be looked at as a feature request for future versions. It
would seem a reasonable thing to do - ignore invisible accelerators.