Detecting hardware buttons

[WeBe]

Hi!

Anyone knows how to programmatically detect when a hardware button,
Up/Down/Next/Previous, is pressed? Since the KeyPreview property is not
available in Compact Framework I don't know how to catch it form-wide.

Regards,
Staffan

 

[William Ryan]

I posted this as a code snippet here
http://www.devbuzz.com/content/code_snippet_list.asp?typeofsnippet=.NET CF

But essentially just trap KeyDown and respond to it...

On your form's KeyDown Event


switch(e.KeyCode){

case Keys.Up:
//DoSomething;
break;


}

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

Check the archives of the newsgroup on Google:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...soft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework

Try "hardware buttons".

Paul T.

 

[WeBe]

But what if another control has focus? In my form I have a ListView control.
When that control has focus, the Form's KeyDown event is not triggered, nor
is the ListView's KeyDown event.

Even if the ListView's KeyDown event would work (which I don't understand
why it isn't), I don't want to add code to every control's KeyDown event.

/Staffan