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Trapping Tab Key

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  4 years ago

  by Flubber

  Flubber

  , United States

  Joined 4 years ago

  Why can't I trap the Tab key using keycode 9 in a Text Box

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  4 years ago

  by Shmosel

  Yosel Bart

  Los Angeles, California, United States

  Joined 5 years ago

  i think the problem is that you have other controls on your form and VB switches to the next control before it recognizes the keydown event. u might want to try the validate event, but that'll also happen if someone clicks on a different control, so it depends on what exactly u want to do, but i guess if u have to have it only by key pressing, then you can keep track of all the controls' keydown events to see if they're being clicked on , or tabbed to(though i didnt really think that through completely )
  

  
  

  
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  4 years ago

  by webjose

  Jose Pablo Ramirez Vargas

  Costa Rica, United States

  Joined 7 years ago

  I posted a link to a resource in this forum thread:  http://www.developerfusion.com/forums/topic-25130.

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  4 years ago

  by Flubber

  Flubber

  , United States

  Joined 4 years ago
  Thanks People! I also found out you can use keycode 9 on the keydown event of a RichTextBox
  will trap it!!
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  2 years ago

  by ehgn00

  Elisabeth Gustavsson

  , Sweden

  Joined 2 years ago

  The KeyUp event will trap the tab key in a textbox.

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