[RESOLVED] how to bridge special key press from datagrid to form (resolved)

[maged]

Dear all,

i have a form, i want to give it some hot keys functionality, so i did the following :

1 - i set the keypreview of the form to true

2 - in the keyup event i set a select case based on the e.keycode , like this

select case e.keycode
 
case 112 
   'save code
case 113
   'delete code
case 114
 'add new code
end select

it works fine, but !!!!!

when i have a datagrid on the form, and the focus is on the grid none of these hotkeys triggers anything.

when i move the focus to any other control on the form , the hot keys works well. i think the datagrid blocks the key strokes inside it assuming that i am editing inside its cells.

what i need now is to alter the keyup event on the datagrid and check if any of the keys i want (hot keys) is pressed , then i want to send the same keys to the form itself.

i don't want to activite my subs directly from the grid, i just want to bridge the keys from the grid to the form, and let the form handle it.

why want i do that in specific, because this is the base form of a project and during inheriting i may have different forms responding deifferently from each other.

Can i pass some special keys from the grid to the form (F1, F2 etc...), and How ????

thx in advance

RGDS