How do u make keyboard arrow keys move a picture box?

[Bob]

well i pretty much said it in the title.

i was wondering how would you make a picture box or an object repond
to the arrow keys.

for example i have a picture and i want to move right when i press the
right arrow on my keyboard. what is code for that?

if anyones knows the code please answer.

thank you very much.

[Tom Fahey]

Re: How do u make keyboard arrow keys move a picture box?


"Bob" <coste2001@hotm ail.com> wrote in message
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> well i pretty much said it in the title.
>
> i was wondering how would you make a picture box or an object repond
> to the arrow keys.
>
> for example i have a picture and i want to move right when i press the
> right arrow on my keyboard. what is code for that?
>
> if anyones knows the code please answer.
>
> thank you very much.[/color]

Try this:

Private sub Form_KeyDown(Ke yCode as integer, Shift as integer)

Select case KeyCode
case vbKeyRight

put what you want it to do here

end select
end sub

I'm showing you a select case style, since it is likely you will have other
keys doing other things and this way it cuts out a lot of if...then stuff.

By the way, the KeyDown event and the keycode constants are available in the
help files.

[Bob]

Re: How do u make keyboard arrow keys move a picture box?

thank you but i was just wondering, how does case select work and where is it

used. i haven't programmed in a while and i m trying to re-learn everything

thanky you

[Tom Fahey]

Re: How do u make keyboard arrow keys move a picture box?


"Bob" <coste2001@hotm ail.com> wrote in message
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> thank you but i was just wondering, how does case select work and where is[/color]
it[color=blue]
>
> used. i haven't programmed in a while and i m trying to re-learn[/color]
everything[color=blue]
>
> thanky you[/color]

Any time you want one action (KeyDown, MouseDown,) or sub to do more than
one thing depending on the value of a variable (MouseX, KeyCode) (or any
other variable), there are two ways to do it.

One is to create a list of if,then,else statements with your code inside
each one. That's asking for slower code and more likelihood for error. The
other is to use a select case arrangement. In that, you simply type select
case (required argument) where the required argument is shown in the
procedure (take a look at Form_KeyDown and notice that it is followed by
KeyCode as one of the required arguments)

then simply type case (what the required argument is) and follow it with the
code you want to execute. When you are all finished with the different
cases, type end select and you're done.

so you could, in the KeyDown example have the following:

if keycode=somethi ng then
do things
end if
if keycode=somethi ng else then
do other things
end if

or you could have
select case keycode
case vbkeyescape
do something
case vbkeya
do something else
end select

See? You should be able to find out more in the Visual Basic help, or with
the purchase of almost any book on Visual Basic.

[Bob]

Re: How do u make keyboard arrow keys move a picture box?

Thnx a lot, i understand every now a lot better. i hoep teh program will work now.