Capturing F10 in Delphi

Question

I'm trying to capture the F10 key in Delphi, but it seems to keep going to activating the menu because it gets converted from the vk_F10 to vk_menu or something.

Answer 1

Hello Stephen,

If you're on Windows, here's some code to make a keyboard hook using the Windows API: http://www.delphitricks.com/source-code/windows/install_a_keyboard_hook.html

Answer 2

The following OnKeyDown event added to my main form should work. Note you ned to set the key parameter to zero to prevent menu activation:

procedure TForm1.FormKeyDown(Sender: TObject; var Key: Word;
  Shift: TShiftState);
begin
   if key = VK_F10 then begin
     Label1.Caption := 'You hit F10';
     key := 0;
   end;
end;