I want show the message if the client press the Tab key. can any one guide me how to capture the tab key event.

I assume you are using VB 6.0. You need to programme the keydown event of the control.

The code is :

If KeyCode=vbKeyTab then
    Msgbox "Tab key pressed"
    ' do necessary actions
    KeyCode=0 'This will set the key code to null. Otherwise, focus will go to the control with next tab index.
End If

Hello Madhu,

I tried like this but it is not working. I took 2 text boxes and applied this code. but it's not working. can you give me other way to achieve this.


thanks

srinivas

Could you please post your code piece ?

hi,

Private Sub Text1_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
If KeyCode = vbKeyTab Then
    MsgBox "Client 1"
    KeyCode = 0
End If
End Sub

Private Sub Text2_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
If KeyCode = vbKeyTab Then
    MsgBox "Client 2"
    KeyCode = 0
End If
End Sub

Windows intercepts the TAB key if in the same form there is more than one component that has the TabStop property set (like in your case, you have Text1 and Text1). The reason why is that Windows uses the TAB to switch the focus.
The only way to get the tab event is to use a keyboard application message hook (via SetWindowsHookEx)

BTW why do you want to do that?

Marco