A fun topic: Key Ascii

Apocolypse2005 · February 9th, 2007, 01:36 PM

When somebody is writing in a rich text box if you press tab it changes focu to the next closest control! but what i want it to do is to insert a vbTab or "indent" into the rtb control so i was wondering y i cant do it like this:

Code:

Private Sub rtb_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
    If KeyCode = vbKeyTab Then
        rtbText = rtb.Text
        rtbText = vbTab
    End If
End Sub

and possibly suggest a way to do it!

Cheers

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Apocolypse2005
Always ready and waiting to be helped!

dparsons · February 9th, 2007, 01:44 PM

In VB6 I am not entirely sure but this post of mine:
http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=55289

It is in C# but it does the same thing essentially. What you need to do is handle the key press so that the normal functionality of the Tab key is replaced with what you want it to do.

hth.

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