Intercept paste event on HtmlEditor WinForms

Question

Hi

I'm using a HtmlEditor control inside a Windows Form.

I got the control from this page:

http://windowsclient.net/articles/htmleditor.aspx

I want to extend the controls functionality by allowing the user to paste images from the clipboard. Right now you can paste plain and formatted text, but when trying to paste an image it does nothing.

Basically what I thought was to detect when the user presses Ctrl+V on the editor, check the clipboard for images and if there's an image, insert it manually to the editor.

The problem with this approach is that I cannot get the OnKeyDown or OnKeyPress events of the form to be raised.

I have the KeyPreview property set to true on the form, but still the events aren't raised.

I also tried to Subclass the form and the editor (as explained here) to intercept the WM_PASTE message, but it isn't raised either.

Any ideas on how to achieve this?

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

Have you tried overriding ProcessCmdKey?