the menu and the shortcuts

[Dominique Gratpain]

Hi,

Two questions about menu and shortcuts (in WindowsForms) :

1) I create a main menu with two items in menu bar : &menu 1 and
m&enu 2
I see the accelarator key (m underline for menu 1 and e underline for
menu 2) only if i strike the alt key.
If I don't use alt key, never i see these accelerator keys.
Is it possible to see these accelerator key without to strike alt key ?
I tries to use a : SendKeys.send("%") but I think it is not possible to
send only Alt but always Alt+other character (ex: "%{A} == ALT+A).
Has anybody a solution ?

2) I use also Ctrl+letter as shortcut in menu items.
If the menu is not active, the shortcut works well, but if the menu is
active, never the shortcut runs even if I see the menu and the word
CTRL+A (for example). I think it is not normal to display Ctrl+A and
Ctrl and A doesn't work.

Thanks in advance

Dominique

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

1) I create a main menu with two items in menu bar : &menu 1 and
m&enu 2
I see the accelarator key (m underline for menu 1 and e underline for
menu 2) only if i strike the alt key.
If I don't use alt key, never i see these accelerator keys.
Is it possible to see these accelerator key without to strike alt key ?
I tries to use a : SendKeys.send("%") but I think it is not possible to
send only Alt but always Alt+other character (ex: "%{A} == ALT+A).
Has anybody a solution ?

Showing the keyboard navigation indicators
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=showaccelerators&lang=en>

 

[Tom Shelton]

Showing the keyboard navigation indicators
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=showaccelerators&lang=en>

Not to berate the OP, but that feature has been part of windows now for
what? 6 years... You would think that people would have caught on by
now

 

[Dominique Gratpain]

Herfried : many thanks for your answer and for your website, it will
help me

Tom : thanks to not berate me but i am sorry if windows doesn’t do well
its job even since 6 years. I am an old developper who uses many times
PDS Basic 7.1 in DOS and with Dos, i could do what i want and i have not
these problems. Herfried's article is about Win 2000 and i use Win 2000.
His article solves my problem.
Perharps, do you have a solution for the question 2 instead of criticize
?

Dominique

 

[Tom Shelton]

Herfried : many thanks for your answer and for your website, it will
help me

Tom : thanks to not berate me but i am sorry if windows doesn’t do well
its job even since 6 years. I am an old developper who uses many times
PDS Basic 7.1 in DOS and with Dos, i could do what i want and i have not
these problems. Herfried's article is about Win 2000 and i use Win 2000.
His article solves my problem.
Perharps, do you have a solution for the question 2 instead of criticize
?

Dominique

Dominique - I'm sorry if I offended you. It was never my intention.
It's just that this has been a fairly frequent question over the years...
I just found it slightly amusing that this question still comes up.
Again, I'm sorry...

 

[Dominique Gratpain]

no problem, Tom

but if you have an answer to my question 2, it will be well

Best Regards

Dominique

 

[Tom Shelton]

no problem, Tom

but if you have an answer to my question 2, it will be well

Best Regards

Dominique

Dominique... I'm sorry, but I don't quite understand the question. Can
you try and ask it one more time? I'll see if I can help

 

[Dominique Gratpain]

Hi Tom,

Sorry, i am late to answer, yesterday I went to DevDays in Paris (2200
developpers in a big warehouse) : good news, good show .. and good
lunch.

Here details about my question :

In WindowForms, in a new project, I put a mainmenu with 2 items on the
menu bar : menu 1 and menu 2.
Under menu 1, I create menu 1 1 and menu 1 2 and I add shortcut : CtlA
for menu 1 1 and CtlB for menu 1 2

Under menu 2, I create menu 2 1 and menu 2 2 and I add shortcut : CtlC
for menu 2 1 and CtlD for menu 2 2

Then I add to see then menu choosen :

Private Sub MenuItem3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MenuItem3.Click, MenuItem4.Click,
MenuItem5.Click, MenuItem6.Click
MessageBox.Show("choose : " + sender.text)
End Sub

Then I run the project.
If i strike on Ctl + A, it is OK (also for Ctl + B ..).

Then I open a menu with the mouse, i see : menu 1 1 Ctrl+A and
Menu 1 2 Ctrl+B.

But now if i strike on Ctrl+A or Ctrl+B or Ctrl+C or Ctrl+D, nothing
appears, no menuitem is choosen.
I think it is not normal. We see the words : Ctrl+A but it doesn't run.
It is good only if the menu isn't activated.

I have the same problem with Win 2000 and Win XP.

What’s happen ??

Thanks

Dominique