Some Guy:

Strange how my original post didn't show up where I intended. Thanks for the
response despite my screw up.

Your sugextion looks like it should work based on other articles. I'm
thinking I'm missing one little bit of this.  Maybe I'm putting it in the
wrong place in my code.

I tried calling it from a controle like this

Dim MyKey As System.Windows.Forms.Keys
       MyBase.ProcessDialogKey(MyKey)

Yet nothing happens.  I would like it to work through out the whole form. Do
I need to raise the event somewhere? Also, will it slow things down or would
I be better to try to convince the client to use traditional methods to
navigate the controles. Please keep in mind I have 327 controles.

Thanks Again

TIA

Bob

Some Guy & Mark:

Thanks to both of you for the responses. Some Guy's response actually made
it so all the keys acted as a TAB key. However, this gave me some leads to
work with and helped me figure it out.

Mark.

I certainly see what you mean and when you look below at the code that is
working, you'll fall of your chair. I still have not fully tested it but so
far it works ok with one small yet probably resolvable issue. I've yet to
have any errors at all.

Protected Overrides Function ProcessDialogKey(ByVal keyData As
System.Windows.Forms.Keys) As Boolean
       'MyBase.ProcessDialogKey(keyData)  <<--Note that this line is
comented out.
   End Function

'If I remove the above function entirely, the down arrow does nothing. Even
when I press it in other Private Subs for 'KeyDown events in other controles
and the TAB key doesn't work at all. Strange don't you think?

Private Sub Form1_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles MyBase.KeyDown
       Dim MyKey As System.Windows.Forms.Keys
       If e.KeyCode = Keys.Down Then
           MyKey = Keys.Tab
       ElseIf e.KeyCode = Keys.Tab Then
           MyKey = Keys.Tab
       End If
       MyBase.ProcessDialogKey(MyKey)
   End Sub

The one small issue to resolve as of now is the following

I have an inherited user controle I made. It's a TextBox that I set to
MultiLine = True and ScrollBars = Verticle in my application(Not when I
built the controle). It's designed to move to the upper left portion of the
form and resize to (636, 326) when the F1 key is pressed and return to it's
original size and position when ESC is pressed. This also continues to
function as it should.

The down arrow acts as a TAB key intill it encounters my controle. When the
cursor reaches my controle, the down arrow key does nothing untill I press
the TAB key or click the next controle. Then the down arrow again functions
as the TAB key. However, the TAB key continues to function normally through
out all the controles on the form.

YEAH, I'm scratching my head too.

Bob

Mark:

I forgot to mention,

That would take a lot of code as I have more than 327 controles on my form
that TabStop = True. I must intercept the Down Arrow key press in the forms
KeyDown event.

Now thats interesting. I may able to refine my code with what you gave me.
I'll be sure and post my results.

Thank you

Bob