I have a MDI Frame that calls several data entry forms as MDI children. The MDI Frame has my control buttons (save, exit, etc.). My save button's text is &Save. When a child window is open I can no longer use ALT + s to execute the click event for the save button. The "ALT+S" seems to be getting sent to the child form. Is there an easier way to send this "ALT+S" to the MDI fram even when a child is open.

I was thinking about placing duplicate copies of the MDI Frame buttons hidden on each MDI child, and they should capture the "ALT+S", and then have them send a click event to the buttons on the MDI Frame, but I wanted to see if there were any ideas out there or a feature already in the system that I could take advantage of.

Thanks,

Matt

Matt,

You might want to consider using Ctrl+S instead of Alt+S. Ctrl+S is the standard shortcut for Save.

But Ctrl+S must be a shortcut to a menu item, not a button. So you must have menus in addition to buttons. Which is a good thing, really, and according to standards.

And talking about standards - you might want F9 as a shortcut for Save too. In my MDI-based app I have both F9 and Ctrl+S as shortcuts for Save. My frame has

- a File | Save menu item with a shortcut F9

- a hidden File | Save2 menu item with a shortcut Ctrl+S

- a Save button which sends a MENU event to the File | Save menu item.

Further: A menu items automatically shows which shortcut it has got. To get my File | Save menu item to show not only "F9" but also "Ctrl+S" I cheat a little and let the menu text be not just "Save" but "Save Ctrl+S".

- Oystein -

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