Keypress handler doesn't work when button is selected

[FalconDEW]

I have a form with several buttons on it, and I created a typical case select function to handle keypress events. In order to get the keypresses to be picked up when I ran the program, I added a handler for form1.keypress and pointed it to my function.

 

I soon found out that if I clicked on any button on the form, keypress events would break... so I ended up adding handlers for every button (button1.keypres, etc) and pointed them all the the keypress case select function as well.

 

I'm wondering if there's a different way to handle this? As I continued to create my program... the handlers I added for each button.keypress broke, because keypresses when a button is selected are not being picked up.

 

I'm hoping there's a better way. Any help would be appreciated!

[Roey]

Try having a look at using the AddHandler keyword:

 

AddHandler Button1.Click, AddressOf ClickHandler

 

Hope this helps....

[FalconDEW]

Already using that...

 

I'm already doing that.

 

What I was trying to say up above, is that while I already have handlers in place for the btn.keypresses, along with the form.keypress, if I disable the button after it's been clicked on... it seems that neither the form or the button has focus - so I can't find a way to catch keypresses any more after than.

 

I guess what I'm looking for is a universal way to catch keypresses, regardless of focus... or a way to change the focus back to the main form (which I could then use at the end of any button click action).

 

-Falcon

[PlausiblyDamp]

Set the form's KeyPreview property to true and it should work.