Catching PageUp and PageDown

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Hi,

I have a form and want to detect a user pressing pageup or pagedown.
These events dont seem to be captured by KeyPress or anything like
that.

Is there an easy way to do this?
 
Hi,

I have a form and want to detect a user pressing pageup or pagedown.
These events dont seem to be captured by KeyPress or anything like
that.

Is there an easy way to do this?
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OK I answer my own question, KeyPress does not detect pgup or pgdwn
but KeyDown does (I wonder why this is?)
So I can just use KeyDown
 
gazza670128 said:
OK I answer my own question, KeyPress does not detect pgup or pgdwn
but KeyDown does (I wonder why this is?)
So I can just use KeyDown
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KeyPress and KeyDown are two completely different kinds of events. It's
unfortunate they have such similar names.

The KeyPress event represents translated character input. If there's
not a Unicode character equivalent to the input, it's not going to show
up in the KeyPress event.

KeyDown represents actual physical key movements. If you need to know
when a particular physical key has been pushed down or released, this is
the event you need to handle.

Pete
 
Peter said:
[...]
KeyDown represents actual physical key movements. If you need to know
when a particular physical key has been pushed down or released, this is
the event you need to handle.
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Er, I meant to mention the KeyUp event in the above paragraph.
Obviously, the KeyDown event isn't going to tell you when a key is
released. :)
 
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