[2008] Wait for keyboard input

[Tinbeard]

Just a quick question, what is the best way to wait for keyboard input in an application.

For background this is a morse code trainer application and I want it to pause after the morse is sounded to allow the user to input what they think the characters were, once the key has been pressed the next character is then played etc.

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[jmcilhinney]

There is no pausing anything. You play a sound, then when the user presses a key you play the next sound. You handle the KeyPress event to detect when the user presses a key.

[talkro]

this can be a solution

private str as string = "abc" 'at least two characters in the string
private counter as integer = 0
 
private sub form_load(Sender as object, e as eventArgs) handles Form1.Load
  Sound(str.Chars(counter))
  counter += 1
end sub
 
private textBox1.keyPress(Sender as object, e as ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) handles TextBox1.KeyPress
      sound(str.Cahrs(counter))
      counter += 1 
 
  if counter = str.length then
    messageBox.Show("Something")
  ens if
end sub