Microsoft KB Archive/135908

= FIX: Hot Keys Do Not Work If TabStop Is Set to False =

Article ID: 135908

Article Last Modified on 9/30/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0b Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q135908



SYMPTOMS
Assigning access keys (hot keys) to a command button in Visual FoxPro is done by placing the "\<" characters in front of the character that is in the name of the caption name property of the command button. When the form is run, you can press the ALT key and the access key character to activate the command button. This works as long as the TabStop property of the command button is set to the default of True. If the TabStop property is set to False, pressing ALT+access key doesn't activate the command button.



WORKAROUND
If TabStop property must be set to false, place the following command in the form's Init event procedure to make the access key work: ON KEY LABEL ALT + U _SCREEN.ACTIVEFORM.COMMAND2.CLICK



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem has been fixed in Visual FoxPro 5.0 for Windows.



Steps to Reproduce Problem
 Create a new form in Visual FoxPro. Add a text box and two command buttons to the form.  In the Caption property of the first command button, type \  In the Caption property of the second command button, type "B\ Run the form. Press the TAB key several times, and note that the mouse pointer is never positioned on the second command button. Press ALT+B and a wait window box appears. Pressing ALT+U will not display a wait window as it should. If either command button is clicked, the wait window for each is displayed. Modify the form to change the TabStop property to True on the second command button. Now you can press ALT+U to display the wait window, but it also allows tabbing to the second command button.</li></ol>

Additional query words: 3.00 3.00b

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbvfp500fix KB135908

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