Benoît, Thanks for the reply. I don't seem to understand how to use your advice. Can you please provide a working example.
Thanks for any assistance. Charlie Ogier Les îles Anglo-Normandes Benoît Minisini wrote: > > Le 15/03/2012 14:21, Cogier a écrit : >> >> Rolf, >> >> Thanks for the reply. Yes it does work in Linux and I can get it to work >> in >> a TextBox but as you say it needs to be in focus and I think the program >> will look silly if at the time of a scan the particular TextBox is not in >> focus. I know there is a way to capture a single key press but I want to >> capture the whole string. The input string is terminated by a "Return" >> code >> so I can handle the end of the string with code. >> >> So I am looking for a way to capture the input string directly from the >> "Keyboard" with code rather than a TextBox. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Charlie >> >> > > Define an public Application_Keypress() event handler in the startup > class. It will catch all key events received by the application (but not > the key events received by other applications of course). > > Regards, > > -- > Benoît Minisini > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF email is sponsosred by: > Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure > _______________________________________________ > Gambas-user mailing list > Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Keyboard-input-help-requested-tp33496560p33522382.html Sent from the gambas-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user