Using Tab as keydown but not for Shift+Tab

[gangel]

Hi ppl,.



I have a keydown event which fires on keycode 13 (enter)

1. I want it to also fire on TAB (keycode 9?) but NOT fire on Shift Tab.. i still want shift tab to go to previous control.

2. If i use keydown for enter then i need to use textbox.text but if i use tab then the .text function doesnt seem to work! :/ where does this leave me? Putting if me.dirty then me.dirty=false on each keydown event and not using .text at all?

thanks in advance

[orange]

This may help

As for Enter OR Tab, I would think you can use OR in your logic.

[gangel]

thanks i got the tab and shift tab issue under control but not the tab .text issue

[Rawb]

Does the Tab key still change the selection? The .Text property is only available if the Textbox currently has focus. If it doesn't have Focus, then you should use the .Value property instead (or just reference the Textbox directly).

The .Text Property only stores data while a textbox is being actively edited. As soon as you change the focus, Whatever's in the .Text property gets saved to the .Value property and the .Text property is cleared.

If it has Focus

strVariable = Me!txtMyTextBox.Text

If it does NOT have Focus

strVariable = Me!txtMyTextBox 'Same as using Me!txtMyTextBox.Value