Intercepting F1 key

[divined]

Hello everybody

I have an MDI VB 6 application. Child forms can be opened from various menus in that form. I would like the user to be able to call the Help subsystem by pressing the F1 key anywhere in the application.
Is there an easy way to do this? E.t.c. from the KeyPress event of a form or do I need to subclass the events message hanlder?

thx, in advance

George Papadopoulos

[dee-u]

I don't think you need to trap it, I think its just about setting properties for the forms and controls...

[divined]

I have found that in the project properties I can input a help file. Does this mean that the Help file is being incorporated into the executable?

[Harsh Gupta]

I have found that in the project properties I can input a help file. Does this mean that the Help file is being incorporated into the executable?

u r right.......using the project properties regarding help file, u just need to enter the filename n there u got it, just click the F1 key n this help file will be incorporated into the Exe of ur project.

[divined]

The only drawback being that my application is MDI. Thus, when only the main form is open pressing F1 has no effect whatsoever. If a single child form is opened then it works.

Any ideas on why this is so?

[penagate]

If it doesn't work I'd suggest you trap the KeyPress event in your MDI parent form.

[vincentg]

I have also got some problems like this in VB6.0 which if I make a code in the menu which supposed to be pops up the Help file

Private Sub mnuContent_Click()
    SendKeys "{F1}", True
End Sub

But it doesnt work at all, well it gave me no choice but to make a small form frmHelp
and recode it like this and it pops the Help File...

Private Sub mnuContent_Click()
    frmHelp.Visible = False
    frmHelp.Show
    SendKeys "{F1}", True
    frmHelp.Hide
End Sub

BTW, the HELP file was also integrated in the Project Property.