Pause Key

[Otterbine]

I'd like to be able to press the pause key and it would stop the program. the program works on timers, so I could do it by disabling the timers. all I need to know is how to recognize when the user hits the pause key. does anyone know how to do this.

thanks
Otterbine

[Lethal]

Throw this in the forms keyDown event, and set the forms keypreview prop to true:

Private Sub Form_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
   If KeyCode = vbKeyPause Then
       MsgBox "Pause was pressed"
   End If
End Sub

[MidgetsBro]

u can do it like this too

'General Declarations
Private Declare Function GetAsyncKeyState Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal vKey As Long) As Integer

Const VK_PAUSE = &H13

'Timer with interval of 1

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()

If GetAsnycKeyState(VK_PAUSE) <> 0 then
     msgbox "Do you stoping code here"
End If

End Sub