Re: Form_Keypress event not happening?

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From: Jan Hyde (StellaDrinker_at_REMOVE.ME.uboot.com)
Date: 11/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:07:46 +0000

"U-CDK_CHARLES\\Charles" <"Charles Krug"@aol.com>'s wild
thoughts were released on Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:09:16 GMT
bearing the following fruit:

>List:
>
>I'm trying to trap Ctrl P on my form with the usual Win32 behavior
>(display the print dialog).
>
>I put a stop in Form_Keypress, but the event never seems to occur.
>
>The form is displayed modally.
>
>What sorts of things should I be looking for? Do I need to attach a
>KeyPress event to all of my controls to do this?
>

I'll bet that the products that support Ctrl+P have a menu
item with this key combination mapped to it?

Jan Hyde (VB MVP) 

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