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Edwin Yip
Edwin Yip

Reputation: 4220

Accelerator character not shown for TPopupMenu items, a windows settings issue or what?

Well, this sounds a like newbie question, but somehow I couldn't get the accelerator keys appears for the standard TPopupMenu items, how to fix that?

Below are two screenshots I created by creating a new VCL forms application without any coding.

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Run time, no underlines: enter image description here

The system is win7 Home with latest updates.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 198

Answers (1)

David Heffernan
David Heffernan

Reputation: 612934

This is the default behaviour of Windows. Accelerator keys are hidden so long as you interact with menus using the mouse. Once you start using the keyboard to interact with them then the accelerator keys will be displayed.

You can see this in action by invoking the menu using the popup menu key that is typically found to the right of the space bar. Alternatively Shift + F10 can be used to invoke the popup menu from the keyboard. Main menus behave in the same way, this is not limited to popup menus.

There is a Windows setting that allows this behaviour to be changed. This setting allows you to request that accelerator keys are always show, irrespective of how the menu was invoked.

Upvotes: 4

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