Is there a keyboard shortcut for the ellipsis buttons of the Project Options in the Delphi IDE

Question

The Project Options in the Delphi IDE has a few option (like the Search Path) each with an ellipsis button (the one on the right having only three dots ... in the image below) to pop-up a dialog.

What keyboard shortcut activates that button?

Figone

Answer 1

Since the Delphi 8, ellipsis button can be activated by pressing Alt + Down, same as for combobox-style fields (with arrow button). Alternatively, you can press Ctrl+Enter.

In Delphi 7 and older, ellipsis buttons were standalone buttons so you could use Tab followed by the Space or Enter key.

Dinsmore

Since basically forever: Delphi 2007 has it, that's the oldest version I've got on this computer, but I'd guess it dates back to at least Delphi 8. – Multinuclear

Thanks. I think it's even in the CUA list Alt-Down action Open selected drop-down list (though the getting the original IBM CUA documents is extremely hard). Some lists also say F4 should have the same behaviour but that doesn't work. – Figone

@dummzeuch: In D7, the IDE implements its ellipse buttons as standalone buttons that can simply be tabbed to and then clicked on using the Space or Enter key. Alt-Down does open its drop-down lists, though. Delphi switched to the new Galileo IDE in D8, which introduced the new UI that (amongst other things) embeds the ellipse buttons in the input fields. – Halyard