Re: Forms 4.5 Mnemonics on Buttons: BUG??

To summarize:

1. In Menus, the '&' character defines the accelerator key.
2. For button, the 'ACCESS KEY' property can be specified which underlines the specified character.

Thanks for all the responses.

"David M. Taulbee" <dtaulbee_at_po.michsb.trw.com> wrote:
>Bert Finkelstein wrote:
>>
>> sanat (joshis_at_detroitedison.com) wrote:
>> : Forms 4.5 experts:
 

>> : When creating a Forms 4.5 form, we tried putting in a '&' in the
>> : button label (e.g. &OK) expecting the character after the '&' to show up
>> : underlined as a mnemonic or a quick key character.
 

>> : Instead, it just shows up as '&Ok'. This feature used to work in Forms 4.0
>>
>> We seem to have the same problem. I guess Oracle doesn't seem to follow
>> Microsoft standards. I have been told that you have to create accelerator
>> keys using Oracle Terminal. Haven't tried it. With menus, it seems to
>> default to the first character of the menu name.
>>
>> I asked my forms instructor and she didn't have any ideas either.
>
>--
>
>With menus, '&' still works to signify an accelerator key.
>
>David M. Taulbee
>TRW Vehicle Safety Systems
>dtaulbee_at_po.michsb.trw.com
Received on Thu May 23 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST