Accelerator key handling without menu item

[hankgao0703]

Does anybody know how to make a VB application respond to a certain accelerate key combination without bothering to add a menu item.

Thanks

 

[Foada]

Can provide a few more details? If you choose to battle wits with the witless be prepared to lose.

 

[hankgao0703]

Thanks for your reply.

I am adding jog panel support to a existing VB application. Jog panel basically is a kind of input device just like keyboard and mouse, but specifictly designed for some special applications.

In my case, the application is a video playing application(we embed Ms Media Player ActiveX control in it) and we have to do operations like play/pause, stop, frame forward, frame backward etc.

The application now has many buttons to implement these operations, so when user click on play button, the video starts to play, whatsoever.

Now I want to let jog panel to send operation to the application. This is very simple, when you press a button on jog panel, it immitates a keystroke combination and send them to the application, my question is how I let the application receive these key combinations and handle it without adding any menu items in the application. (By adding a menu item, you can specify a key combination associated with it, but I don't want to display the menu).

I am not sure if this is clear for you.

Thanks

 

[Foada]

If I understand you correctly you have made a user interface with command buttons etc etc on a form, correct?
If that is correct then you should just be able to set the form's "KeyPreview" property to true and then process the keys that you wish. Does that help or am I way off? If you choose to battle wits with the witless be prepared to lose.