How can I trap the arrow keys on a VB6 form?

Yes, numlock is on, but I'm not using the numpad arrows. I tried your code and keydown never gets control. Plz re-read my original comment. Thanx

Plz disregard my last comment. I turned numlock off and the keypad downarrow got a hit. So why doesn't the real downarrow key get a hit? Thanx

it is working on my computer. I can't say for yours! Maybe Scroll Lock?

The prog is an icon viewer. I put 32 icons on the scrn in an Image array. I then simply scroll the images up and down. The only control that can accept a kb hit, other than form keypreview, are the Images which if clicked on simply draw a border around the icon. As stated earlier, for debugging I put a dummy statement like A=A at the top of keypress, keyup, and keydown and set a breakpoint on all 3. The 4 arrow keys never cause a break, nobody home. Also, if I do a SendKeys "{numlock}" the Microsoft wireless kb receiver light winks off then on and stays on. I only mention this cuz I thought I'd try the numpad arrows since the normal arrows don't work but numlock won't stay off.

The 4 arrow keys cause my 2 buttons to alternately get focus, even with tabstop=false. So I physically removed the 2 buttons from the form, and guess what, the arrow keys get trapped. Why are the arrow keys acting like TAB when buttons are present?