How can you start a program with an key?

[hanver]

If you start a program u wrote, u can activate by pressing a start button u made and stop it with a stop button.
but how can you start it by ex. pressing F11 and stopping it by pressing F12?
Hope some can help

greets
hanver

[albertw]

If you start a program u wrote, u can activate by pressing a start button u made and stop it with a stop button.
but how can you start it by ex. pressing F11 and stopping it by pressing F12?
Hope some can help

greets
hanver

use the method keydown within your form
eg:

Private Sub frmMain_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
Select Case KeyCode
Case Is = vbKeyF11
put your code here ...............
Case Is = vbKeyF12
put your code here ...............
End Select
End Sub

[hanver]

thx, I'm going to test in now

[hanver]

Private Sub frmMain_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)

is this you form where your labels and so on are in?
because the code doesn't work for me

[albertw]

Private Sub frmMain_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)

is this you form where your labels and so on are in?
because the code doesn't work for me

yep that's the one
note that you need to have a keydown event when your form has focus !, otherwise select the sub ..keydown from the object which has focus.