KeyDown Event in VB 2005

[fripper]

I have a VB 2005 windows app and I want to recognize keydown events. I have
a form key down event handler but it does not get control when a key is
depressed. In playing around I found that if I add a keydown event handler
for some control on the form, say a textbox ...
Private Sub txtBox_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles txtBox.KeyDown)

and then give that control focus the keydown event is recognized by that
handler. My question is how to I set things up so that when the app is
launched and the user presses a key it will be seen by the form's keydown
event handler.



Thanks.

 

[Guest]

fripper,

If you set the form's KeyPreview property to True you get a first shot at
processing all the form's keystrokes.

Kerry Moorman