how to activate a button when it has the focus

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I’m on a Mac here:

what is the needed code so when you TAB around your interface, and a button gets the focus and gets the blue box, when you hit ENTER, code for the button does its thing.

thanks

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You need to allow full keyboard access in the Keyboard preferences / “Shortcuts” tab / Check “All controls” for the Mac UI to behave like that.

If you want to obtain that without the user having to set the preferences, you will need to implement a workaround so tab can stop on buttons (which it normally does not do). One of the simplest way is to place each button over a canvas which will show the focus ring and be able to have a tab stop.

Then in the canvas KeyDown event, use Pushbutton.Push when key = chr(13)
http://documentation.xojo.com/index.php/PushButton.Push

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cool, lets give it a try

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Have you tried setting the Default property to True?