Recoginition of keypress thru API(Window API)

hi,
is it possible to know whether any key is pressed in the
form using window API. If yes then how???
And after that is detected I want to call a function Which
will do certain activity.
Please tell me how to do it

thx

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use GetAsyncKeyState and poll, but why not just use the Form_KeyPress Event with the KeyPreview property set to True?

Here is an example of how to use the GetAsyncKeyState api:

Code:

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Private Declare Function GetAsyncKeyState Lib "user32" (ByVal vKey As Long) As Integer

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()   
Dim iKey As Integer   
For iKey = 0 To 255     
If GetAsyncKeyState(iKey) Then Caption = "KeyCode: " & iKey & " was pressed." 
Next
End Sub

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Numbers 2 and below represent a NullCharacter, left mouse and right mouse respectively. If you don't want to capture them, simply start from 3.

Code:

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Private Declare Function GetAsyncKeyState Lib "user32" (ByVal vKey As Long) As Integer

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
    Dim iKey As Integer
    For iKey = 3 To 255
        If GetAsyncKeyState(iKey) Then Caption = "KeyCode: " & iKey & " was pressed."
    Next
End Sub

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