Alt Key Accelerator Not Working

[mbond]

Hello,

My requirement is for all buttons to have an Alt key accelerator. To be clear, this is when the caption of the button shows an underlined character. Pressing Alt + <the underlined character> will activate the button the same as a left mouse click would. Do do this, just add an ampersand "&" immediately before the character you want to underline in the Caption property of the control. I have this work everywhere except one button.

I have a custom dialog with the standard Back, Next, and Cancel buttons with captions of "< &Back", "&Next >" and "&Cancel". The Next and Cancel buttons are working fine with the accelerators. However, the Back button won't trigger with Alt-B. I can see the problem both when testing the dialog and when running the full compiled installer. If I use the mouse to click the button, then it works fine. Additionally, on every other dialog that has the same 3 buttons the Back button works just fine. I've included screen shots of the Back and Next button properties.

So what is wrong with this one Back button, and how do I fix it?

Thanks in advance,
Bond

[JohnGaver]

This topic applies to InstallAware Multi Platform as well.

An accelerator cannot be shared by more than one component.

If an accelerator is used in the caption field of a label, that label will select the control referred to in its FocusControl property.

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label appears to be one such control.