dotted line highlight for button

[melanieab]

Hi,
I'm trying to find the command(s) that will force buttons to be highlighted
any time they're in focus. At the moment, buttons are only sometimes
highlighted, and you can't always tell where you are. I did find this online:
"When a button has the keyboard focus, the system typically highlights the
text, icon, or bitmap of a button by surrounding it with a dotted line.", but
no instructions on how to highlight yourself. Any help would be great!
Thanks very much,
Melanie

[Jonathan Allen]

Try it on another computer, maybe something is wrong with yours. I've never
had the focus indicator disappear for me.

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Jonathan Allen
"melanieab" <me*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi,
I'm trying to find the command(s) that will force buttons to be
highlighted
any time they're in focus. At the moment, buttons are only sometimes
highlighted, and you can't always tell where you are. I did find this
online:
"When a button has the keyboard focus, the system typically highlights the
text, icon, or bitmap of a button by surrounding it with a dotted line.",
but
no instructions on how to highlight yourself. Any help would be great!
Thanks very much,
Melanie

[melanieab]

I just realized that the highlighting doesn't show up when I use an up/down
key to focus on a button that hasn't been highlighted before (tabbed into).
If it has been highlighted before, it works fine. Any thoughts on how to get
it to work all the time?
Thanks again!
Melanie

"Jonathan Allen" wrote:

Try it on another computer, maybe something is wrong with yours. I've never
had the focus indicator disappear for me.

--
Jonathan Allen
"melanieab" <me*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C4**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hi,
I'm trying to find the command(s) that will force buttons to be
highlighted
any time they're in focus. At the moment, buttons are only sometimes
highlighted, and you can't always tell where you are. I did find this
online:
"When a button has the keyboard focus, the system typically highlights the
text, icon, or bitmap of a button by surrounding it with a dotted line.",
but
no instructions on how to highlight yourself. Any help would be great!
Thanks very much,
Melanie

[Jonathan Allen]

Nope, never heard of that before. Maybe if you post the code someone else
might figure it out.

--
Jonathan Allen
"melanieab" <me*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:75**********************************@microsof t.com...

I just realized that the highlighting doesn't show up when I use an up/down
key to focus on a button that hasn't been highlighted before (tabbed
into).
If it has been highlighted before, it works fine. Any thoughts on how to
get
it to work all the time?
Thanks again!
Melanie

"Jonathan Allen" wrote:

Try it on another computer, maybe something is wrong with yours. I've
never
had the focus indicator disappear for me.

--
Jonathan Allen
"melanieab" <me*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C4**********************************@microsof t.com...

> Hi,
> I'm trying to find the command(s) that will force buttons to be
> highlighted
> any time they're in focus. At the moment, buttons are only sometimes
> highlighted, and you can't always tell where you are. I did find this
> online:
> "When a button has the keyboard focus, the system typically highlights
> the
> text, icon, or bitmap of a button by surrounding it with a dotted
> line.",
> but
> no instructions on how to highlight yourself. Any help would be great!
> Thanks very much,
> Melanie
>

[melanieab]

I actually found a way to work around it. As soon as one button became
highlighted, they all would when focused on so I just set the focus for the
button before the one I wanted to start with and wrote
SendKeys.Send("{Tab}"). It all worked fine then. Thanks very much though!
Melanie

"Jonathan Allen" wrote:

Nope, never heard of that before. Maybe if you post the code someone else
might figure it out.

--
Jonathan Allen
"melanieab" <me*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:75**********************************@microsof t.com...

I just realized that the highlighting doesn't show up when I use an up/down
key to focus on a button that hasn't been highlighted before (tabbed
into).
If it has been highlighted before, it works fine. Any thoughts on how to
get
it to work all the time?
Thanks again!
Melanie

"Jonathan Allen" wrote:

Try it on another computer, maybe something is wrong with yours. I've
never
had the focus indicator disappear for me.

--
Jonathan Allen
"melanieab" <me*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C4**********************************@microsof t.com...
> Hi,
> I'm trying to find the command(s) that will force buttons to be
> highlighted
> any time they're in focus. At the moment, buttons are only sometimes
> highlighted, and you can't always tell where you are. I did find this
> online:
> "When a button has the keyboard focus, the system typically highlights
> the
> text, icon, or bitmap of a button by surrounding it with a dotted
> line.",
> but
> no instructions on how to highlight yourself. Any help would be great!
> Thanks very much,
> Melanie
>