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Hi,
I'm in the process of writing a small C# App, in which i have two
groupboxes in a form. The form has the KeyPreview property set to true.
The groupbox1 contains a set of labels. The second groupbox contains a
few checkboxes and a button. I wrote a form1_keypress handler to handle
keyboard inputs directed at the form. But once the groupbox2 receives
focus (if i change one of the checkboxes or click on the button), even
before i can handle keyboard events (an arrow key press) with the
form1_keypress event, i see that the groupbox2 state changes (the
checkbox value changes). Or in other words, the groupbox2 still is in
focus and i reach the form1_keypress only after having the state of the
controls in groupbox2 changed.

I want all the key input to go to groupbox1. Controls inside groupbox2
should not receive keyboard input at all. How to make this happen?

Thanks in advance.

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I have a barcode scanner which uses a "keyboard wedge" program so that the data it scans comes through as if it was typed on a keyboard. I am trying to have the data in the barcode be displayed in a text box. I know that there are certain control characters embedded in the data that I want to display substitutions for in the text box, for instance I want to replace ASCII character 04 with the string "<EOT>". I have tried doing a simple...
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