How can i cancel a dialog box hiting the "esc"

[Guest_imported]

I have a dialog box with Ok and a cancel button. But i need to unload the form by hiting the esc key... how can i do it?

 

[ide]

set the Cancel property of the Cancel button to True

 

[ide]

...khm .. in a VB project. sorry.
Could you insert the code of your message box to here?

 

[Guest_imported]

You don't seem to understand what i've said...
I have a dialog box open and i want to close it by hiting the "esc" key.

 

[sunaj]

Hi,

You could make your own dialogbox, by placing controls on a form and show it modally. Check in Form1_keydown if esc is beeing pressed (keycode = vbKeyEscape (=27)).

Sunaj

 

[Guest_imported]

Sujaj,
I didn't understand very well...
can you write all the code, please!?
I put it on the Form_keydown as:


keycode = vbKeyEscape (=27)

and i can't do it

 

[daimaou]

yo misunderstood it, you place on the Form_keydown

If keycode = vbKeyEscape (=27) then
Unload Me
End if

it's just that.

 

[Guest_imported]

What a mess!
I still not understanding...
I put it like this:

Private Sub Form_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
If KeyCode = vbKeyEscape = (27) Then
Unload Frm_Dir
End If
End Sub

where is the problem?

 

[sunaj]

Hi,

-----------------------------------------------------------
Private Sub Form_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
If KeyCode = vbKeyEscape Then
Unload me
End If
-----------------------------------------------------------

;-) sunaj

 

[drako]

How about put the cancel button with the property Cancel at true
It's easier, no?

 

[daimaou]

LOL
That's it sunaj, I just made a copy paste from your post to mine of that line and didn't even noticed the (=27).
That was preety obvious though...

 

[maxpower1]

the codes provided are correct but because some other controls, NOT the form, has the focus - the Form_KeyDown
event will not be triggered. The best solution for you is
to set the Cancel property to TRUE. Else, do this:-

In Form_KeyDown
if keycode = vbkeyEscape then
end
end if


In other controls keydown event call
Form_KeyDown(keycode, shift)

This will synchronize the whole application.

Now, if you have one hundred controls that would be a mess.
Hence, use control array so you can serialize the function
call.

good luck

 

[MrEGuest]

...Or you could set the forms KeyPreview property to true and sunaj's code will work perfectly no matter how many controls you have on your form.