How to create shortcuts / hotkeys in VB6?

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How do I create own shortcuts in VB6?
Example: I want to give out this text "Hello World!" whenever I press Ctrl+T.

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v_tigra

Posted 30-Apr-14 20:59pm

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Updated 1-May-14 1:09am

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[no name] 1-May-14 7:55am

What have you tried? What is the problem with the code that you have tried? You know VB6 is long dead right?

v_tigra 2-May-14 5:28am

Yes, I know it's "dead", but we still work with VB6 only on one important project.
I've tried with a normal form, it worked - but it seems that MDIforms don't have such an event like "KeyDown(..)" or "KeyPress(..)".

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Peter Leow · Answer 1 · 2014-05-01T02:51:00

Solution 1

Check this out: create-a-hot-key[^]

Posted 1-May-14 2:51am

Peter Leow

RahulMGunjal · Answer 2 · 2014-05-01T03:34:00

Solution 2

On key press event you can write following code

VB

if keycode = vbkeyf4 then
cmdcompute_click()
End if

Also read this post

http://visualbasicnetcode.blogspot.in/2010/05/how-to-create-hot-key-in-visual-basic-6.html[^]

Posted 1-May-14 3:34am

RahulMGunjal

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v_tigra 2-May-14 5:33am

Yes, but KeyPress only works for "normal" forms, not MDIForms.. is there an other possibility to work with something else like "KeyPress" or "KeyDown"?