File1 problem

hi guys,

i have a problem, i have made drive, dir, and file boxes all link together - thats fine, but i have also included a listbox wich receives the file names, and a rightclickable menu. when i right click the menu and select one of the options with the mouse it runs the code perfect, but if i use the keyboard eg ctrl + a, the file1 box doesent listen to the code.

what have or havent i done?

is there another way of doing this, eg using code within the file1 box to use shortcut keys?

thanks

I assume you have Ctrl+A as a shortcut for one of the menu items and the main menu is set to be invisible, right? In that case VB will not react to the shortcuts you have assigned to the menu.

The work around is to set the KeyPreview of the Form to True and check for all the shortcuts in the Form_KeyDown event.

so what code would i need to put in the keydown?

VB Code:

Private Sub Form_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
    If Shift = vbCtrlMask Then
        'Shift can also have the values vbShiftMask or vbAltMask
        'or a combination of them
        Select Case KeyCode
            Case vbKeyA
                'Code for Ctrl+A
            Case vbKeyX 'change this to a key you use
                'cod for Ctrl+X
            'add more case statements here
        End Select
    End If
End Sub

thanks for that, thats exactly what i was looking for.