How to get keyboard input from the form itself without using a textbox?

[Depreciated]

Greetings

I have a USB RFID scanner. While I have this form1 up, I want to send any keyboard input and put it in a textbox which is in another form(say form2). I tried using this code but to no avail. The first form is named "MainMenu".
Every time of a keypress, the the letter or digit input will go to another form. Is this even possible or am I just doing something wrong?

Private Sub MainMenu_KeyPress(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) Handles Me.KeyPress

    Form2.Textbox1.text = e.KeyChar

End Sub

[tinstaafl]

You're on the right track. MainMenu can't have any control that will steal the focus. Setting Enabled property to false works. Also, setting all the tabstop properties to false will work.

[Reverend Jim]

You could try setting the forms KeyPreview property to True. You'll have to do some pre-processing in one of the form's Key events (KeyDown, KeyPress, KeyUp) to ensure the characters are handled properly.

[GhostWolf]

I may be old-school, but I like global variables for things like this. I think what I'd do is something like:

[frm1] gblVar = ""
[frm2] @ KeyPress event: gblVar &= e.keychar
then, when frm2.close
txtFld.text = gblVar

[Depreciated]

@Reverend Jim

setting the form's KeyPreview property to True worked like a charm. Whatever input I give can go to the other form without using the textbox. Now I just need the device and work on how to make the reader read multiple tags at once, having different separate inputs.