Shortcut Keys dilema

[yogiyang]

I don't know if I will be able to explain my problem or not. But let me try.

I want to give facility to users to set their own shortcut keys for various commands in my software at runtime. Here the user should be able to even set a shortcut key for a button click so instead of clicking on the button the user can just press the shortcut key to execute that buttons click event.

How can I do this? I mean how can I give user facility to set shortcut key for a particular event and execute the relevant code when the shortcut key is pressed...

Say for example that a user sets a shortcut key for a button's click event. Now the software should show that shortcut key in the respective button's caption also...

Ok that is it. I hope I have managed to explain my stuff properly?

How can I do something like this.

Someone please guide me here.

Regards,

Yogi Yang

[seenu_1st]

u can use KeyDown event, try like this

Private Sub Command1_Click()
MsgBox "Hi"
End Sub

Private Sub Form_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
If Shift = 2 And KeyCode = Asc("A") Then 'Ctrl+A
    Command1_Click
End If
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
Me.KeyPreview = True
End Sub

there r some other methods also

[yogiyang]

u can use KeyDown event, try like this

Private Sub Command1_Click()
MsgBox "Hi"
End Sub

Private Sub Form_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
If Shift = 2 And KeyCode = Asc("A") Then 'Ctrl+A
    Command1_Click
End If
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
Me.KeyPreview = True
End Sub

there r some other methods also

Thanks for your help but I have already done this. But the keypreview does not work at times especially when a combo box has focus.

[aldryn05]

add & to your command button's caption.

[seenu_1st]

Thanks for your help but I have already done this. But the keypreview does not work at times especially when a combo box has focus.

i tried with combobox too, it works fine, can u post ur code or attach the project as zip?