I have a Panel control docked on all sides on a form and the panel control
contains a PictureBox. I'm using the KeyDown event of the form to respond to
the [+] and [-] keys for resizing the image and the PageUp, PageDn, Home,
End, and arrow keys for scrolling the Panel control.
Resizing the image using the [+] and [-] keys works fine, deriving a resized
thumbnail from the image and reassigning it to the Image property of the
PictureBox. However I'm running into a problem where the scrolling keys are
placing the form into a state where it suddenly no longer responds to any
keys. KeyDown and KeyPress will no longer fire, unless I quit the program
and restart it.
Could there be something else that might be capturing the other keys and
altering the functionality of the form? I had placed two buttons on the form
and noticed that the arrow keys were toggling the focus between the two
buttons, rather than scrolling the Panel.
Question:
How can I get the "scrolling" keys to fire the KeyDown event and prevent the
form from getting into that apparently form-editing state?
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Phil Galey wrote: I have a Panel control docked on all sides on a form and the panel control
contains a PictureBox. I'm using the KeyDown event of the form to respond to
the [+] and [-] keys for resizing the image and the PageUp, PageDn, Home,
End, and arrow keys for scrolling the Panel control.
Resizing the image using the [+] and [-] keys works fine, deriving a resized
thumbnail from the image and reassigning it to the Image property of the
PictureBox. However I'm running into a problem where the scrolling keys are
placing the form into a state where it suddenly no longer responds to any
keys. KeyDown and KeyPress will no longer fire, unless I quit the program
and restart it.
Could there be something else that might be capturing the other keys and
altering the functionality of the form? I had placed two buttons on the form
and noticed that the arrow keys were toggling the focus between the two
buttons, rather than scrolling the Panel.
Question:
How can I get the "scrolling" keys to fire the KeyDown event and prevent the
form from getting into that apparently form-editing state?
Capture the ProcessCmdKey event. It will give you access to those keys.
Chris
Excellent. That does the trick. Thanks.
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news:ul**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... Phil Galey wrote: I have a Panel control docked on all sides on a form and the panel
control contains a PictureBox. I'm using the KeyDown event of the form to
respond to the [+] and [-] keys for resizing the image and the PageUp, PageDn,
Home, End, and arrow keys for scrolling the Panel control.
Resizing the image using the [+] and [-] keys works fine, deriving a
resized thumbnail from the image and reassigning it to the Image property of the
PictureBox. However I'm running into a problem where the scrolling keys
are placing the form into a state where it suddenly no longer responds to
any keys. KeyDown and KeyPress will no longer fire, unless I quit the
program and restart it.
Could there be something else that might be capturing the other keys and
altering the functionality of the form? I had placed two buttons on the
form and noticed that the arrow keys were toggling the focus between the two
buttons, rather than scrolling the Panel.
Question:
How can I get the "scrolling" keys to fire the KeyDown event and prevent
the form from getting into that apparently form-editing state?
Capture the ProcessCmdKey event. It will give you access to those keys.
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