Gui with many buttons, when a key is pressed with same initial alphabet, it should not launch rather set focus,Lik Menu

[ahklearner]

Gui with many buttons, when a key is pressed with same initial alphabet, it should not launch, rather set focus !

Like Menus

A gui with 40 buttons, when you press an alphabet, if there is only single entry it should run button.
If there is more than one button starting with letter "s", the focus should shift to S, but not launch the first button.

is it possible ?

Thanks in advance for your help and support.

[Micromegas]

If nobody replied it may be because other people are as confused by the question as I am. The way all good GUIs are designed is that they assign shortcut keys to their buttons, which don't necessarily have to be the initial of the button, to avoid that problem. If there are still any duplicates left, then there's still a way to address them with keys. E.g. under Windows the standard for that is to repeat entering the same key until the correct button (or other control, as the case may be) is selected, and then send space to select that one. Does that answer your question?

[ahklearner]

Thanks for your time!

I tried this but it does not go to second button if i press it 2 OR more than 2 times.

Can you show me a way designing a GUI where if i press a key example N, and if there is more than 1 button whose name starts with N then, after pressing more than 1 time it should go to next button and as follows.

Thanks

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Gui, Add, Button, G1, Nothing
Gui, Add, Button, G2, Nothing
Gui, Add, Button, G3, Nothing
Gui, Add, Button, G4, Nothing
Gui, Add, Button, G5, Nothing
Gui, Show
return

1:
MsgBox 1
return

2:
MsgBox 2
return

3:
MsgBox 3
return

4:
MsgBox 4
return

5:
MsgBox 5
return

If nobody replied it may be because other people are as confused by the question as I am. The way all good GUIs are designed is that they assign shortcut keys to their buttons, which don't necessarily have to be the initial of the button, to avoid that problem. If there are still any duplicates left, then there's still a way to address them with keys. E.g. under Windows the standard for that is to repeat entering the same key until the correct button (or other control, as the case may be) is selected, and then send space to select that one. Does that answer your question?

[Micromegas]

Can't you just use an ampersand?

An ampersand (&) may be used in the name button to underline one of its letters. For example:

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Gui, Add, Button,, &Pause

In the example above, the letter P will be underlined, which allows the user to press Alt+P as shortcut key. To display a literal ampersand, specify two consecutive ampersands (&&).

[hd0202]

This is my suggestion:

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n_s = 1
n_t = 5
o_s = 6
o_t = 7
f = 1
Gui, Add, Button, G1 default, Nothing
Gui, Add, Button, G2, Nothing
Gui, Add, Button, G3, Nothing
Gui, Add, Button, G4, Nothing
Gui, Add, Button, G5, Nothing
Gui, Add, Button, G6, Other
Gui, Add, Button, G7, Other
Gui, Show
return

1:
MsgBox 1
return

2:
MsgBox 2
return

3:
MsgBox 3
return

4:
MsgBox 4
return

5:
MsgBox 5
return

6:
MsgBox 6
return

7:
MsgBox 7
return

n::
o::
guicontrolget, f, focus
stringreplace, f, f, button
;msgbox, % f
guicontrol, -default, Button%f%
thk := a_thishotkey
xs = %thk%_s 
xt = %thk%_t
x_s := %xs%
x_t := %xt%
;msgbox, % x_s " - " x_t
f++
if (f < x_s or f > x_t)
  f := x_s
guicontrol, +default, Button%f%
guicontrol, focus, Button%f%
return

exitapp
escape::exitapp

Hubert

[ahklearner]

Truly Amazing, its working
Can i add more alphabets to

a::
b::
c:: AND SO ON...
n::
o::
x::
y::
z::
guicontrolget, f, focus

Thanks in advance for your help and support.

This is my suggestion:

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n_s = 1
n_t = 5
o_s = 6
o_t = 7
f = 1
Gui, Add, Button, G1 default, Nothing
Gui, Add, Button, G2, Nothing
Gui, Add, Button, G3, Nothing
Gui, Add, Button, G4, Nothing
Gui, Add, Button, G5, Nothing
Gui, Add, Button, G6, Other
Gui, Add, Button, G7, Other
Gui, Show
return

1:
MsgBox 1
return

2:
MsgBox 2
return

3:
MsgBox 3
return

4:
MsgBox 4
return

5:
MsgBox 5
return

6:
MsgBox 6
return

7:
MsgBox 7
return

n::
o::
guicontrolget, f, focus
stringreplace, f, f, button
;msgbox, % f
guicontrol, -default, Button%f%
thk := a_thishotkey
xs = %thk%_s 
xt = %thk%_t
x_s := %xs%
x_t := %xt%
;msgbox, % x_s " - " x_t
f++
if (f < x_s or f > x_t)
  f := x_s
guicontrol, +default, Button%f%
guicontrol, focus, Button%f%
return

exitapp
escape::exitapp

Hubert