Re: Capture Shift Held Down When Application Starts?

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From: Samuel R. Neff (blinex_at_newsgroup.nospam)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:39:21 -0500

If Control.ModifierKeys = Keys.Shift Then
        ' Shift is being held down.. special processing...
End If

This checks if Shift is the only modifier key being pressed. If you
want to check if shift or any other key is pressed, then use

If (Control.ModifierKeys And Keys.Shift) = Keys.Shift Then
        ' Shift is being held down.. special processing...
End If

HTH,

Sam

>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm writing a launcher program which checks for updates and copies them down
>> to the client.
>> However, I would like the user to be able to modify the settings for the
>> launcher. As this runs automatically, I would like it to be configurable by
>> the user holding down the shift key when double-clicking my exe, to bypass
>> the usual update routine and start the config form.
>>
>> Access does something similar, by holding down the shift to bypass the
>> autoexec macros with automatically starts on startup.
>>
>> I'm already checking for command parameters to start the config, but that
>> isn't acceptable, and the user would have to modify the shortcut etc.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Alex

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