Function key as button 'hotkey'

Aad-Jan Couwenhoven

Delphi Developer

Wed, 04 Nov 1998 03:00:00 GMT

Function key as button 'hotkey'

Hi,

I know how to set up a hotkey in a (bit)button through '&Caption'.
But how do I make the <F3> key the hotkey of a button?

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John Nuric

Delphi Developer

Wed, 04 Nov 1998 03:00:00 GMT

Re:Function key as button 'hotkey'

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Aad-Jan Couwenhoven <cou...@dm-visinescu.nl> wrote:
>Hi,

>I know how to set up a hotkey in a (bit)button through '&Caption'.
>But how do I make the <F3> key the hotkey of a button?

As far as I know, you can't. Instead, catch it in an OnKeyUp or
OnKeyDown event handler (possibly for the form, with KeyPreview:= true),
and call the button OnClick handler from there.

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john atkin

Delphi Developer

Sat, 07 Nov 1998 03:00:00 GMT

Re:Function key as button 'hotkey'

For SpeedButtons it is easy to have a menu item which calls the same
click event as the speedbutton. The menu item can have it's ShortCut
property set to the required function key. I expect you don't want to
have this button on a menu but perhaps you can do a test to see if a
hidden menu item still acts upon it's ShortCut. Worth a try.

John.

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