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Finding out if the "shift" key is being held down.

Is there a way in Access 2003 to find out if the "shift" key is being held down? When a label is double clicked, I want one thing to happen if "shift" is held down and another thing to happen if it is not being held down.

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fabriciofonseca

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GRayL

Not sure I follow you. I'm running Access 2003 and there are no events associated with a label. How are you going to detect whether a label has been double-clicked?

Rey Obrero (Capricorn1)

Ray,
you must be looking at a label attached to a control..

fabriciofonseca

Please see the attachment example with a possible solution

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DoubleClickShift.mdb

DatabaseMX (Joe Anderson - Former Microsoft Access MVP)

"and shift is 0 or 1 whether pressed or not."

That is not accurate. This is the drill:

Here are the 7 combinations of the Shift argument ... from which you can trap any combination of Shift, Control and Alt ... in either the Form_KeyDown and Form_KeyUp events. Also ... be SURE you have Key Preview set to Yes on the Event property sheet for the form.

Private Sub Form_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)

'Shift Argument for the 7 combinations of Shift, Ctrl and Alt keys:
'0 None
'1 Shift Key
'2 Ctrl Key
'3 Shift + Ctrl Keys
'4 Alt Key
'5 Shift + Alt Keys
'6 Ctrl + Alt Keys
'7 Shift + Ctrl + Alt Keys
'----------------------------------------

End Sub

GRayL

Rey: That'll do it every time!

Finding out if the &quot;shift&quot; key is being held down.

Finding out if the "shift" key is being held down.