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IsCancelButton... or isn't?

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IlyaRabyy

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Nov 9, 2010
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Colleagues,
Unless I misinterpret the meaning of this property in subject, once it's set to True, it fires this button's Click event when the User hits Esc key on keyboard - right?
So, besides having hotkey on my Exit button on form, I want to give the User possibility to just hit Esc key (instead of Alt+X, let alone Tab-ing to the Exit button through all the form).
So, I checked Help - there's IsCancel property in the System.Forms.Button class, which, according to
"When you set the IsCancel property of a button to true, you create a Button that is ... then activated when a user presses the ESC key"... which is exactly what I need.

But this property in not in the button's property sheet in VS 2019 VB IDE! [ponder]

2022_09_23_ButtonIsCancelPropertyInHelp_szy2x3.jpg


(FYI, in VFP this property of a Command Button is clearly visible in the Properties sheet! Can't recall if it was so in VB6...)

What am I missing or misunderstand?

Please advise!
TIA!
(Just in case: my WS is Windows 10, and it's MS VS 2019.)

Regards,

Ilya
 
C heck yopur project type - believe property only exposed in WPF projects, not WFA
 
There's no WFP, only WFA type in the list:

2022_09_27_10_16_ProjectTypes_zkglfl.jpg


Regards,

Ilya
 
#Um - you pretty much can't just swich at the click of an option from WFA to WPF, they are very different beasts
 
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