so what exactly does alt-a do?
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there are days when i wonder about the programs i have to use, currently i am wondering what i have just done to my source code :| using the wonderful experience that is VS2005 (pure C++, not feeling blown away just yet) i opened the find and replace dialog, set up my two strings, and then through habit i pressed ALT-A, at which point something happened. i speculate that the button called "Replace All" was triggered, but looking quite hard at this dialog, it seems that there is not a single underlined letter. so am i actually triggering the button with an invisible keyboard shortcut? was i just lucky? so are invisible keyboard shortcuts the way of the future? i am not sure i want to open any more dialogs in this new program, in case i get any more odd effects. before anyone asks i have display settings set to always show me the underlines. should i go home before the migraine and the halucinations return / get any worse? zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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there are days when i wonder about the programs i have to use, currently i am wondering what i have just done to my source code :| using the wonderful experience that is VS2005 (pure C++, not feeling blown away just yet) i opened the find and replace dialog, set up my two strings, and then through habit i pressed ALT-A, at which point something happened. i speculate that the button called "Replace All" was triggered, but looking quite hard at this dialog, it seems that there is not a single underlined letter. so am i actually triggering the button with an invisible keyboard shortcut? was i just lucky? so are invisible keyboard shortcuts the way of the future? i am not sure i want to open any more dialogs in this new program, in case i get any more odd effects. before anyone asks i have display settings set to always show me the underlines. should i go home before the migraine and the halucinations return / get any worse? zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
Microsoft changed the way the Alt key system works in Windows 2000 (I think). Nothing is underlined, however, if you press and release the Alt button, you will then see the underlines. Regards, Brigg Thorp Senior Software Engineer Timex Corporation
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there are days when i wonder about the programs i have to use, currently i am wondering what i have just done to my source code :| using the wonderful experience that is VS2005 (pure C++, not feeling blown away just yet) i opened the find and replace dialog, set up my two strings, and then through habit i pressed ALT-A, at which point something happened. i speculate that the button called "Replace All" was triggered, but looking quite hard at this dialog, it seems that there is not a single underlined letter. so am i actually triggering the button with an invisible keyboard shortcut? was i just lucky? so are invisible keyboard shortcuts the way of the future? i am not sure i want to open any more dialogs in this new program, in case i get any more odd effects. before anyone asks i have display settings set to always show me the underlines. should i go home before the migraine and the halucinations return / get any worse? zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
Alt+A is always going to the D&ata main menu strip item. Even if I have the find/replace dialog up. I'm using VS2005.
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there are days when i wonder about the programs i have to use, currently i am wondering what i have just done to my source code :| using the wonderful experience that is VS2005 (pure C++, not feeling blown away just yet) i opened the find and replace dialog, set up my two strings, and then through habit i pressed ALT-A, at which point something happened. i speculate that the button called "Replace All" was triggered, but looking quite hard at this dialog, it seems that there is not a single underlined letter. so am i actually triggering the button with an invisible keyboard shortcut? was i just lucky? so are invisible keyboard shortcuts the way of the future? i am not sure i want to open any more dialogs in this new program, in case i get any more odd effects. before anyone asks i have display settings set to always show me the underlines. should i go home before the migraine and the halucinations return / get any worse? zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
Under Control Panel->Display->Appearance->Effects, you'll find the checkbox for "Hide underlined letters for keyboard navigation until I press the Alt key".
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there are days when i wonder about the programs i have to use, currently i am wondering what i have just done to my source code :| using the wonderful experience that is VS2005 (pure C++, not feeling blown away just yet) i opened the find and replace dialog, set up my two strings, and then through habit i pressed ALT-A, at which point something happened. i speculate that the button called "Replace All" was triggered, but looking quite hard at this dialog, it seems that there is not a single underlined letter. so am i actually triggering the button with an invisible keyboard shortcut? was i just lucky? so are invisible keyboard shortcuts the way of the future? i am not sure i want to open any more dialogs in this new program, in case i get any more odd effects. before anyone asks i have display settings set to always show me the underlines. should i go home before the migraine and the halucinations return / get any worse? zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
Turns off the auto-pilot. :->
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Microsoft changed the way the Alt key system works in Windows 2000 (I think). Nothing is underlined, however, if you press and release the Alt button, you will then see the underlines. Regards, Brigg Thorp Senior Software Engineer Timex Corporation
there is an option to show the underlines anyway, which i have turned on. i looked at the screen, and i could see the underlines on the menu bar, but no underlines in the find / replace dialog :sigh: zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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there are days when i wonder about the programs i have to use, currently i am wondering what i have just done to my source code :| using the wonderful experience that is VS2005 (pure C++, not feeling blown away just yet) i opened the find and replace dialog, set up my two strings, and then through habit i pressed ALT-A, at which point something happened. i speculate that the button called "Replace All" was triggered, but looking quite hard at this dialog, it seems that there is not a single underlined letter. so am i actually triggering the button with an invisible keyboard shortcut? was i just lucky? so are invisible keyboard shortcuts the way of the future? i am not sure i want to open any more dialogs in this new program, in case i get any more odd effects. before anyone asks i have display settings set to always show me the underlines. should i go home before the migraine and the halucinations return / get any worse? zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
i may have to have a lie down in a dark room if this gets much worse. looking at home, with the option to show underscores turned on, with VS2005 running under win2k i see the accelerators on the buttons in find / replace :| next order of business, get screen shots on the two computers to compare them. i am starting to think this is a winXP with VS2005 interaction "bonus feature" :sigh: zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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Under Control Panel->Display->Appearance->Effects, you'll find the checkbox for "Hide underlined letters for keyboard navigation until I press the Alt key".
already turned on, not that it seems to help zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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Turns off the auto-pilot. :->
:..::. Douglas H. Troy ::..
Bad Astronomy |Development Blogging|Viksoe.dk's Site*that* explains why the code looks so odd! whats the key to turn it back on again??? :-D zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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there is an option to show the underlines anyway, which i have turned on. i looked at the screen, and i could see the underlines on the menu bar, but no underlines in the find / replace dialog :sigh: zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
Seems to me that whoever coded this part of VS probably forgot to add accelerators to the resource file. :( Brigg Thorp Senior Software Engineer Timex Corporation