Keypress event

[Silicon Valley]

Hello,

Here is my problem.
When the user is on my form and if he / she hits ctrl + enter at the same time, I want certain text from a text box to move to another text box.

So im thinking I would do this is a form1_keypressevent??

enter key is chr(13) but what is the ctrl key?


Any help.

Thanks.

[Kaverin]

Instead of using the KeyPress event, use the KeyDown event (or KeyUp, but try down first). That way, you can check Shift to see if shift, control, or alt was pressed when the event was fired.

[marnitzg]

As Kaverin said. Shift will return 2 if ctrl was pressed.

[anilgoje]

You have to write the code either in keyDown or keyUp not in keyascii.Since keyascii cannot trap the ctrl key whereas keycode traps it.

So the keycode for ctrl key is 17.

When you want to trap the code of function keys and the keys like ctrl,alt etc then you have to use keycode.

Hope iam clear

regards

[Silicon Valley]

I understand it now anilgoje. Thanks for all of your help people.

[seaweed]

This code will capture the "Ctrl + Enter" keys and display a message box when they are pressed.

Private Sub Form_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
    If (KeyCode = vbKeyReturn) And (Shift = vbCtrlMask) Then
        MsgBox "You pressed Ctrl + Enter"
    End If
End Sub

[Edited by seaweed on 11-06-2000 at 02:20 PM]

[Silicon Valley]

I have tried both ways and It is still not working.

First way.

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

      if chr(13) and chr(17) then
         msgbox"working?"
      end if
            
End Sub

'// second way

Private Sub Form_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
    
    If (KeyCode = vbKeyReturn) And (Shift = vbCtrlMask) Then
        MsgBox "You pressed Ctrl + Enter"
    End If    

End Sub

Any ideas?

[markman]

I think its not working because the first way has

MsgBox"working"
'and not
MsgBox "working"

If not then i dont know

[Silicon Valley]

No that isnt the problem. I am only putting msgbox's up there so I can see if it works before I put in the rest of my code.

I have also tried keyup as well as keydown events.