joypad and textbox caret with keydown event

[Coder]

Hi,



Is there a way to cancel a keydown even from within the keydown event? In
eVB i can cancel the event or change the keycode in the event to 0 but in VB
..NET the keycode and keyvalue are read only. I use the textbox and form
keydown event to trap keys for the mouse pad (joypad). However, I DON'T want
the caret in the textbox to move up, down, left or right. I want to use the
mouse pad keys for other things. I also must keep focus on the textbox so
that selected text doesn't disappear as it does when the textbox loses
focus.



Any ideas?

 

[Alex Yakhnin, eMVP]

You can try to set the Handled property of the
System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs parameter in the event to False:

Private Sub Form1_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles MyBase.KeyDown

e.Handled = True

End Sub

 

[MichaelLipp[MS]]

Sorry, I don't see a work around at this point (subclassing TextBox doesn't
have any affect either). I've entered a report in our product database.



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