Can't capture the TAB key in the edit box

Lawrence Tse

Delphi Developer

Sun, 04 Sep 2005 01:33:42 GMT

Can't capture the TAB key in the edit box

Hi,

In my edit box, I tried to capture the TAB key in both KeyDown/KeyPress, but neither event seemed to have been triggered. I also doing the same with the form's KeyDown/KeyPress events and those aren't fired either. Does anybody know how I can do this? OnExit won't work for me, because TAB does something a little different than when the user clicks a different control.

Thanks,
Lawrence

Soni

Delphi Developer

Sun, 04 Sep 2005 06:09:15 GMT

Re:Can't capture the TAB key in the edit box

set the keypreview property of the form to true

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"Lawrence Tse" <l...@safe.com> wrote in message

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> Hi,

> In my edit box, I tried to capture the TAB key in both KeyDown/KeyPress,

but neither event seemed to have been triggered. I also doing the same with
the form's KeyDown/KeyPress events and those aren't fired either. Does
anybody know how I can do this? OnExit won't work for me, because TAB does
something a little different than when the user clicks a different control.

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> Thanks,
> Lawrence

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