How to disable controls in Windows Media Player in WPF

Question

I was just wondering if there is a way to disable controls such as ctr Left/Right arrows or Alt+left/right arrows in AxWindowsMediaPlayer. I am using it in WindowsFormsHost in my WPF project. I would like to capture these controls and handle them myself. When I use this block, I don't have any way to prevent it by using e.handeld =true or other ways

  void MediaPlayer_KeyDownEvent(object sender, AxWMPLib._WMPOCXEvents_KeyDownEvent e)
        {

        }

Any suggestion how to disable it and continue with my own controls. The important part is it bubbles up somewhere and freezes the GUI if I use such commands, and I don't have any way to capture it to control. It doesn't have any error though.

thanks

Answer 1

Hi Pardisnoir,

I have one thought to try, but I haven't tested it. Inherit from WindowsFormsHost and override WndProc() method. In this method capture WM_KEYDOWN message, process it, and if it's a key you want to suppress, return 0.

If it doesn't work, you may want to find other way to hook windows procedure.

Hope this helps.

Cheers, Anvaka

Answer 2

It can be blocked in WindowsFormHost level by controlling keydown.