SSTab on ActiveX control and cmdButton.Cancel =True doesn't work

[DeafBug]

I have a SStab on an UserControl. The UserControl has DefaultCancel = True. Now when you drop that UserControl on a dialog box. The Cancel button on the dialog box has the property Cancel = True.

The Usercontrol has a number of other objects on it. If the focus is on any object even on objects inside the tab, pressing the escape key will work. If the focus is on one of the tabs (of the SSTab,) pressing escape key doesn't do anything. QA and Product management wants it work. How do I do that?

[WizBang]

It should be easy enough by setting the KeyPreview property for your control to true. Your control will then receive the keystrokes before any controls in it.

[DeafBug]

Thanks for the help. However it didn't quite work. So I tried something else that solved the problem for reason unknown to me. If you add a underscore making it a hot key (with &) on the tabs caption. It will work. Without the underscore, it doesn't.