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Chris Croughton wrote:

> Keys like tab, space and
> the arrow keys don't do the same thing there, and I doubt if anyone
> would want them to do so whether it's a 'standard' UI feature or not.

They certainly will in a dialog box. Pressing space while an edit
control has the focus causes a space to be inserted. Even if you
develop your own component it will not respond to [space] unless it has
a reason to do so.

I have developed an editor using a TBitmap to draw the text on and
there was never any reason to disable [space]. It gets handled along
with all the other non editing keys in the OnKeyPress handler with no
effort on my part.

The OP asked how to prevent [space] from activating a button and the
only time it will do that is when that button has the focus. It doesn't
matter what application you are developing. If a button has the focus
then it is part of the Windows UI specification that pressing [space]
will click it.

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