I have a fairly big VB 6.0 application with a large number of forms. Each of them contains a number of controls also. The tab indices of each control in each form is correctly set so that users can move from control to control using tab key.

However, client wants return (enter) key based navigation. I.e when they press enter key while on a textbox with tab index 16, the focus should move to control with tab index 17 if it is enabled. If control with tab index 17 is not enabled, it should focus to control with tab index 18 and so on.

I can write a piece of code in the key-press event of all controls. But I would like to know whether there are any alternative smarter methods for achieving this ? (Writing such a piece of code in each control key press event will take long time even if I create a public subroutine in a module and use it).

Thanks

Madhu

I remember "stephanel" posting a very neat solution to a similar problem a while back. See http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4052

The original problem was how to get each text box to automatically select all text when focused without writing code in each GotFocus. The solution could easily be applied to your case too using the keypress event instead.

hth
Phil

Setting the KeyPreview of the form to True you can send a TAB when the Return key is pressed:

Private Sub Form_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
    If KeyAscii = vbKeyReturn Then
        SendKeys "{TAB}"
        KeyAscii = 0 '' "eat" this event
    End If
End Sub

I understand that that is a customer request, nevertheless I discorage changing the standard Windows keystrokes process, especially the Return key that has a completely different meaning (that is, take the "default" action). You get used to Return to switch focus, and then at the first visited web page the Return will click on the "send all the information in this page" default button at the bottom of the page, even though nothing has been entered yet, or worse, sommething wrong was entered...

Marco

Thanks for the responses.

I tried the stephanel method. But, I have a problem. There it was dealing with only textboxes. I am using all types of controls. So, I have to use different classes for each type of control. It is working for text controls.

Thanks again.