Detecting Multiple Keys Being Pressed

[Gimpster]

How do you check to see if someone is pressing multiple keys (i.e.-Alt+F4). Because I need to check and see if the user presses 'SHIFT + TAB' while inside a textbox.

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Ryan

[carolyn]

Use KeyDown event. See VB online help for details.

[Aaron Young]

The Keydown Event passes a Shift Value which indicates wether SHIFT,CTRL or ALT is Pressed in Combination with the KeyCode Value, ie.

Private Sub Text1_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
    If KeyCode = vbKeyTab And (Shift And vbShiftMask) = vbShiftMask Then
        Caption = "SHIFT + TAB"
    End If
End Sub

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[Gimpster]

Ya know what though, for some reason I cannot get the KeyDown event to recognize the Tab key. I've used a break point at the beginning of the KeyDown event and it doesn't even go into the event code. I don't know why, everything I've read, says it should work, but it's not working.

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Ryan