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What happened to my underscores?
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| FrisbeeŽ 2005-12-15, 6:55 pm |
| Either I'm losing my mind or that long overdue vacation needs to be moved
up...
Is there some kind of setting in VB that I've somehow accidentally hit? All
of a sudden, all of my command buttons, in my entire project, have no
shortcut key underscores on any of the command buttons! I've confirmed the
captions are still correct, with the ampersands at the correct places. I've
just re-compiled my project, and they do appear as normal from the finished
product, but in the IDE, they do not appear on the buttons.
Any idea what causes this?
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| Ken Halter 2005-12-15, 6:55 pm |
| "FrisbeeŽ" <billLASTNAME@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Either I'm losing my mind or that long overdue vacation needs to be moved
> up...
I thing it's the "long overdue vacation" part <g>.... Right-click desktop,
select Properties, (if XP) select Appearance then Effects, clear the box
that says "Hide underlined letters for keyboard navigation until I press the
Alt Key"
fwiw, Win2k says "Hide keyboard navigation indicators until I use the Alt
key"
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| FrisbeeŽ 2005-12-15, 6:55 pm |
| "Ken Halter" <Ken_Halter@Use_Sparingly_Hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "FrisbeeŽ" <billLASTNAME@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:uTEMIJbAGHA.2908@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
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> I thing it's the "long overdue vacation" part <g>.... Right-click desktop,
> select Properties, (if XP) select Appearance then Effects, clear the box
> that says "Hide underlined letters for keyboard navigation until I press
> the Alt Key"
Thanks, Ken.
This must be the default setting in XP. I only recently (a few months ago)
got a new computer and went from Win 2k to XP, maybe I just never noticed it
all this time, but I still don't understand why that setting only seems to
have affected the IDE and not the compiled application? I still had the
underscores in the compiled app...
After making that change, and clicking "Apply" it didn't take in the IDE.
Also did some kind of weird "fade to black & white" effect when I OK'd the
desktop properties diaglog, but still didn't affect the IDE. Tried x-ing
out the form and reloading it in the IDE, still no change... Finally, had to
unload and reload VB, then it took.
Sometimes I swear there are gremlins in my machine.
The old American Motors kind.
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| Ken Halter 2005-12-15, 6:56 pm |
| "FrisbeeŽ" <billLASTNAME@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks, Ken.
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> This must be the default setting in XP. I only recently (a few months
> ago)
Yeah... default in anything >= Win2k... you see, the default settings MS
chooses are designed to confuse. That way, they get more support calls/money
;-)
> got a new computer and went from Win 2k to XP, maybe I just never noticed
> it all this time, but I still don't understand why that setting only seems
> to have affected the IDE and not the compiled application? I still had
> the underscores in the compiled app...
>
> After making that change, and clicking "Apply" it didn't take in the IDE.
> Also did some kind of weird "fade to black & white" effect when I OK'd the
> desktop properties diaglog, but still didn't affect the IDE. Tried x-ing
> out the form and reloading it in the IDE, still no change... Finally, had
> to unload and reload VB, then it took.
Sadly, VB's "internals" are a bit outdated... no built in support for XP
themes, no built in support for scroll wheel, the PDW's not designed for
multiple user based OSs, etc, etc.
imo, considering VB6 was released when Win98 was popular, it's holding up
pretty good... to support some of the new OS features, it takes a tweak or
two here and there but all in all, it still gets the job done nicely.
> Sometimes I swear there are gremlins in my machine.
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> The old American Motors kind.
Boy... that brings back memories <g>
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Ken Halter - MS-MVP-VB - Please keep all discussions in the groups..
DLL Hell problems? Try ComGuard - http://www.vbsight.com/ComGuard.htm
Freeware 4 color Gradient Frame? http://www.vbsight.com/GradFrameCTL.htm
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