TAB key and Keypress

[spongebob-straight pants]

Hi all,
When I press the tab key, I cannot fire the keyup and the keydown or any
keypress events
How then would I capture those events?

Thanks

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

When I press the tab key, I cannot fire the keyup and the keydown or any
keypress events

Add this to your form's code:

\\\
Protected Overrides Function ProcessTabKey(ByVal forward As Boolean) As
Boolean
MyBase.ProcessTabKey(forward)
MsgBox("Tab key was pressed!")
End Function
///

 

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Sponge Bob,
In addition to the other comments.

There are a number of advanced keyboard overrides, unfortunately I don't
have any real good examples of using these, other then they allow you to
intercept the key significantly earlier
then the OnKey* methods, including the Tab key.

I want to say you want to use IsInputChar or IsInputKey to check for a Tab,
if its a Tab returning false will allow the Tab to be handled by your
control. I normally override all the advanced keyboard overrides, watch
(w/Debug.WriteLine) the values coming out to determine which one to actually
use...

*advanced keyboard overrides include: IsInputChar, IsInputKey,
PreProcessMessage, ProcessCmdKey, ProcessDialogChar, ProcessDialogKey,
ProcesKeyEventArgs, ProcessKeyMessage, ProcessKeyPreview, and
ProcessMnemonic.

If I find an example I will post one later...

Hope this helps
Jay