button "clicked" with Enter key

Question

I have a button1 on my application. How to create, that the code will go through button_click event handler when user presses Enter key (the same, as he would clicked with a mouse)?

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I am a rookie at C#, so please don`t be mad if my questions goona sound stupid...

Answer 1

public System.Windows.Forms.IButtonControl AcceptButton { get;  set; }
    Member of System.Windows.Forms.Form

Summary:
Gets or sets the button on the form that is clicked when 
the user presses the ENTER key.

Return Values:
An System.Windows.Forms.IButtonControl that represents 
the button to use as the accept button for the form.

Set that property on your Form.

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Answer 2

By default, pressing Enter or Space will click a button that has the focus.

Answer 3

Yee, what about it does not have a focus? If there is more then one button, lets yes 3 (YES, No, Cancel), and with pressing Enter, the fous has to go on YES button! How to do that?

Rudedog2, I didnt realyl understand, but what you said has something what I want. Can you be a bit more specific, please?

thx,

Mitja

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I am a rookie at C#, so please don`t be mad if my questions goona sound stupid...

Answer 4

When Viewing Form Design, See Form's properties and set 'Accept Button' property to the button you want.

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Thanks

- Omie

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C isn’t that hard: void (*(*f[])())() defines f as an array of unspecified size, of pointers to functions that return pointers to functions that return void

Answer 5

Ok, this works!

But on my application I have a tabControl1 with tabPage1 and tabPage2. On tabPage1 is a button1 and on a tabPage2 is a button2. I would like to "click" them with Enter key. How to define when a tabPage1 is selected - has to use button OR a tabPage2 is selected - has to use button2?

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I am a rookie at C#, so please don`t be mad if my questions goona sound stupid...

Answer 6

Something like that

in form acceptbutton set to button1 and then...

 Private Sub TabControl1_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TabControl1.SelectedIndexChanged
        Select Case TabControl1.SelectedIndex
            Case 0
                Me.AcceptButton = Button1
            Case 1
                Me.AcceptButton = Button2
        End Select
End Sub

Answer 7

You are going to need to "drill down" to the controls collection on a specific TabPage in order to use Lucifer's suggestion.

Me.AcceptButton = Me.TabControl1.TabPages[0].Controls[0]

The above demonstrates accessing the first TabPage, and then the first control in the Controls collection for TabPage1.

Rudedog  =8^D

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