Is this the way to check for Esc

[Just Me]

When I need to cancel when Esc is pressed this is what I do:

In KeyUp I set a module level variable if Esc is pressed.

Where I want to check for cancel I do a DoEvents and then check that
variable.

This is probably a long loop so DoEvents is executed often and I takes a
performance hit.

Is there a better way?

Thanks

[Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB]]

" Just Me" <ne********@a-znet.com> wrote in message
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When I need to cancel when Esc is pressed this is what I do:

In KeyUp I set a module level variable if Esc is pressed.

Where I want to check for cancel I do a DoEvents and then check that
variable.

This is probably a long loop so DoEvents is executed often and I takes a
performance hit.

Is there a better way?

You could execute the long-running process on a secondary thread and let the
main (UI) thread process user input as normal. That's about all I can think
of to avoid DoEvents.

[Just Me]

Thanks, I've done something like that.
Bumped a counter and did DoEvents and rest the counter when it reached some
value

Thanks
"Jonathan Allen" <Jo***********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Avoiding DoEvents is a good thing. But if you don't wnat to deal with threads, you can limit how often it is called.
For X = 1 To 1000000
'some code

If X Mod 100 = 0 Then DoEvents()
Next

This will call DoEvents only once for every 100 iterations.

Jonathan Allen

"Just Me" wrote:

When I need to cancel when Esc is pressed this is what I do:

In KeyUp I set a module level variable if Esc is pressed.

Where I want to check for cancel I do a DoEvents and then check that
variable.

This is probably a long loop so DoEvents is executed often and I takes a
performance hit.

Is there a better way?

Thanks

[Just Me]

I'm going to keep that in mind. I haven't yet used secondary threads but
maybe I should be thinking that way.

Thanks

"Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB]" <i.***@enough.spam> wrote in message
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" Just Me" <ne********@a-znet.com> wrote in message
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When I need to cancel when Esc is pressed this is what I do:

In KeyUp I set a module level variable if Esc is pressed.

Where I want to check for cancel I do a DoEvents and then check that
variable.

This is probably a long loop so DoEvents is executed often and I takes a
performance hit.

Is there a better way?
You could execute the long-running process on a secondary thread and let

the main (UI) thread process user input as normal. That's about all I can think of to avoid DoEvents.

[Just Me]

One other thing I forgot to ask:

The code is on a UserControl which contains many controls.

Do I have to code each KeyUp or can I some how get the UserControl's KeyUp
event to catch them all?

I know I can make one method handle all the events, but is that necessary?

Guess I'm looking for a KeyPreview for a UserControl.
Thanks


" Just Me" <ne********@a-znet.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

When I need to cancel when Esc is pressed this is what I do:

In KeyUp I set a module level variable if Esc is pressed.

Where I want to check for cancel I do a DoEvents and then check that
variable.

This is probably a long loop so DoEvents is executed often and I takes a
performance hit.

Is there a better way?

Thanks