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Tab key

Hi,

I am a beginner in VB and am working on a VB key trapping using the KeyPress procedure. I'd like to make a condition statement for pressing the Tabelator key (I tried both vbKeyTab and its ASCII code 9) in the text box control during runtime. But this condition is ignored and cursor moves to the next control in the order of TabIndex. Is there a way how to make the program respond to pressing the Tab key (without setting the TabStop property to False)?

Thank you in advance,
Tomas Jirsak
jirsak@bnl.gov

P.S1. I tried without success also KeyDown and KeyUp procedures.
P.S2. A very simple example is below.

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Private Sub txtPosition4_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
Select Case True
Case KeyAscii = vbKeyTab
MsgBox "That was a Tab key"
Case Else
MsgBox "That WAS NOT a Tab key"
End Select
End Sub

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Juilette

You can set the Tabstop property to false for all the controls:

Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim i As Integer
On Error Resume Next
For i = 0 To Controls.Count - 1 ' Use the Controls collection
Controls(i).TabStop = False
Next
End Sub

Juilette

Oooops...sorry...didn't clue in on the not set to false.
Wayne

Tomas_Jirsak

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Juliette's answer is exactly what I don't want, i.e. setting properties of all the controls to False (this is explicitly mentioned in my question).

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beachbum714

Neither the KeyPress nor the KeyCode events respond to the tab key as stated in the original question. I have noticed this in VB6 AND VB3. Does anyone have a real solution?