Use of Shortcut keys in VB (VB6)

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In VB6 are the shortcut keys F1 to F12 limited to the menu items or can they be captured from a form?

I have a pop-up form with a search button on it, which I was hoping to set a shortcut of F8 to as that would match our Access product. The Function keys don’t get picked up on the keypress/keydown events, and the only way I seem to be able to access them is to add a menu to the form with a subitem and add the F8 shortcut to that.
Is this the only way to use the function keys in VB6?

Any help would be much appreciated.
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You can use the On KeyDown event. If you set the KeyPreview property of the form to True, all keyboard events will be passed to the form first. Example:

Private Sub Form_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
Select Case KeyCode
Case vbKeyF1
…
Case vbKeyF2
…
Case Else
…
End Select
End Sub

If you want to stop further processing of the key, set KeyCode to 0. See KeyDown, KeyUp Events.

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Thanks Hans, thats sorted it perfectly.
I didn’t know about the KeyPreview property!

Regards,

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