Can't help you with VB, but if you were using VB.NET it would be easy enough to convert this from C#. To get when enter is pressed on your control's KeyDown event:

1if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Enter)
2{
3      //add you code here
4}

Of course you could always download VS Express to get VB.NET and C#.

It's been a lonnnnnnnnng time since I last coded in an early version of VisualBASIC. I recall that there weren't a lot of options for doing the kind of stuff you want to do.

If memory serves, SOME kind of event should fire when you hit the enter key from a text box, so you should just try and capture that event from the text box itself.

On VB forms you'll have one CommandButton control with the "Default" property set to True, and that control's OnClick event will be triggered when you hit Enter anywhere on the form (unless another CommandButton has explicitly been given focus, e.g. by Tabbing through the controls)

Put your text fields into a control array, and the task is simple.

1Option Explicit
2Dim intCurrentTextBox
3
4Private Sub Command1_Click()
5
6    intCurrentTextBox = intCurrentTextBox + 1 ' Pick next array element
7    If intCurrentTextBox = Text1.UBound + 1 Then intCurrentTextBox = 0 ' Loop back to 0 if upper bound violated
8    Text1(intCurrentTextBox).SetFocus ' Give focus to next textbox
9
10End Sub
11
12Private Sub Text1_GotFocus(Index As Integer)
13    
14    intCurrentTextBox = Index ' Record currently selected textbox index
15    Text1(Index).SelStart = 0 ' Move cursor to home
16
17End Sub

On the form is a CommandButton named Command1 with the property Default set to True, and an arbitrary number of text boxes in a control array named Text1, with sequential Index property values.

To create a control array, just place two textboxes and name the second one the same as the first. With all this in place, pressing Enter should cycle through the text boxes.

If you don't want the "Next field" button to be visible, you'll need to move it off the edge of the form somewhere, it won't work if you change the Visible property to False.

Tested on VB6, but should apply to VB4 and even VB3.