Underline letter in a button

[dfoster]

In my form, I have four buttons that do different tasks. The
button.Text field is set as &Next Project, so the N will be underlined.
In the preview of the form, it shows up with the N underlined. Yet
when I run my program, the text shows up with no underlining. I have
checked and made sure that I am not changing the text value anywhere
else, so I am not sure what is wrong. Any help will be appricated.
Thanks.

Dave

 

[Mel]

The underline is turn off by default in XP until you press the Alt Key. You
can change this behavior by opening the Display properties, on the
appearance tab click on effects and then uncheck the underline entry.

 

[Adam Clauss]

The underline is turn off by default in XP until you press the Alt Key.
You can change this behavior by opening the Display properties, on the
appearance tab click on effects and then uncheck the underline entry.

Is that true? Go to Start/Run, look at the Browse button. (Windows XP SP2).
I have that option currently checked and it still shows there.

 

[Patrick Steele]

In my form, I have four buttons that do different tasks. The
button.Text field is set as &Next Project, so the N will be underlined.
In the preview of the form, it shows up with the N underlined. Yet
when I run my program, the text shows up with no underlining. I have
checked and made sure that I am not changing the text value anywhere
else, so I am not sure what is wrong. Any help will be appricated.

There's a desktop setting to "hide underline for hotkeys until user
presses ALT key". Perhaps that is turned on?

 

[justin creasy]

Dave,

I created a quick test project and the same thing is happening to me.
Even when "UseMnemonic" is set to true, the letter is not underlined.
The mnemonic is still active and can be reached by pressing "shift" +
the mnemonic letter, and in the designer the underline is there, but
not when run.

For what it is worth I have found at least one other post with the same
problem here

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/community/aspnet/2/32799/no-accesskey-property-for.aspx

I am starting to feel like this is a bug in .NET. Are you working in
1.0, 1.1, or 2.0. I am coding in VS2005 with .NET 2.0. If this is a bug
and you really need this feature it would be possible to hack it. Good
luck, if I find anything else I'll post it.

 

[justin creasy]

ok, so I took too long to write my post. I'm reading the ones above and
they are correct. When I press alt with my test app in focus the
mnemonic letter shows it's underline.

 

[dfoster]

I have them showing now, and I thank you all for the responses.