Tab Key

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Theodore Dervenis

Hello all,

We have an application that is written in C# in order to
run on Pocket PC 2.0

Our problem is that all controls ignore the "Tab" key of
the keyboard in their Key_Down - Key_Press etc events
handlers. It seems that the .NET Form is not aware that
the Tab Key is pressed.

This is a big limitation because our customers use a
professional Symbol device with a small keyboard on it (it
also has a barcode scanner) and the Tab key is ignored.

We do not have a lot a experience in Win API to try to
handle the pressing of the Tab Key, so any link or sample
code would be extremely usesful.

Thank you in advance.
 
I don't have a sample to link you to, but you're going to have to either buy
a third-party library which will handle the tab sequencing for you or you'll
have to devote significant effort to capturing and *handling* the Tab key.
I've done this by externally hooking the Windows CE keyboard stream, passing
messages to a managed MessageWindow subclass, and handling the sequencing
from one control to another myself, but it was not a simple process and
there are plenty of special cases you need to handle.

Paul T.
 
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