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Prevent KeyDown event from processing to next form

HI, I have a form in C# app. On this form I capture a KeyDown event Alt+U which will open a second form. In the second form I have a toolStripButton with shortcutkey Alt+U (the same which I used to open the form with) which prints a document. Now, my problem is when I open the second form It will automatically trigger the event of clicki...

- (void) keyDown: (NSEvent *) event does not work..

Below is the sample code. - (void) keyDown: (NSEvent *) event { NSString *chars = [event characters]; unichar character = [chars characterAtIndex: 0]; if (character == 27) { NSLog (@"ESCAPE!"); } } Should I need to set any delegate in InterfaceBuilder or any kinda binding?? Help Appreciated... ...

KeyDown/KeyPress and Indexing

Hi everyone. Compelete noob working on my first app in C#. Here is what I am trying to do.... A user is going to enter an "ID" into a text box, all numbers. I have been trying to figure out how to trap a leading zero in the ID, for instance: 5031 is accepteble for ID 0827 not what we want Basically, zero cannot be the leading number i...

How to handle text edition from the KeyDown event?

I would like to edit a graphical text (not a TextBox control) through the KeyDown event. I need to update my text string according to the KeyEventArgs (key value and modifier). I using a french keyboard for now but in the future I would like to support different keyboard layout. How can I guess the caractere typed depending the key value...

How do i capture the Print Screen key?

Hello everyone. I my program i need to capture when the Print Screen key is pressed down but it is not working (however it works with other keys). I guess this has something to do with windows hijacking my authority and since im still new at this i'd love to know how i can get around this issue. Here's my current code: namespace Boom...

Javascript sending key codes to a <textarea> element

Hi, I can't figure out how to trigger a keydown event on a textarea element, e.g. imagine i have two textarea elements and when i type something in the first one, I want the second box to show the typing as well, but for a certain reason I have to do it via events. This is what I tried and it doesn't work: <script language="javascript"...

KeyDown : recognizing multiple keys

How can I determine in KeyDown that Ctrl + Up was pressed. private void listView1_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e) { if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Control && e.KeyCode == Keys.Up) { //do stuff } } can't work, because never both keys are pressed exactly in the same second. You always to at first the Ctrl and then the ...

C# trying to capture the KeyDown event on a form

Hello! I am creating a small game, the game is printed onto a panel on a windows form. Now i want to capture the keydown event to see if its the arrow keys that has been pressed, the problem however is that i can't seem to capture it. Let me explain, on the form i have 4 buttons and various other controls and if the user for instance p...

Detecting "value" of input text field after a keydown event in the text field?

So my site has an input box, which has a onkeydown event that merely alerts the value of the input box. Unfortunately the value of the input does not include the changes due to the key being pressed. For example for this input box: <input onkeydown="alert(this.value)" type="text" value="cow" /> The default value is "cow". When you...

Keydown event for entire application VB .Net

I want to make it so that no matter which control has focus, it will do my event. So that I dont have to write a keydown event for all 137 of my objects. Is this possible? Thanks ...

Get textbox value on keydown + Multilingual support

Hi, I want get the value of the text including the character on the keydown event. $(".searchfield").keydown(function(e) { if (e.which >= 32 || e.which < 127) { var c = String.fromCharCode(e.which); callSearch($(this).val() + c)); } }); It works good for characters, numbers and all the essential characters. 32-127 AS...

Multiple Modifier Keys in C#

I am betting this is a really simple question to answer, I just can't get such a simple thing to work. I use a keydown event to detect keys pressed and have several common key combination's to do various operations. if (e.KeyCode == Keys.C && e.Modifiers == Keys.Control && e.Modifiers == Keys.Shift) { //Do work } else if (e.KeyCode...

jQuery : binding keydown, same behavior except for one

Hello, I have some input (text type). I'd like to the same behavior for all except for one. I tried this : $(document).ready(function() { $("input[type=text]").bind('keydown', function(e) { .... }); $("#MyOtherInput").keydown(function(e) { ..... }); }); MyOtherInput is the input type texte with a specifi...

Convert received keys in PreviewKeyDown to a string

I am using PreviewKeyDown event on a window to receive all the keys from a barcode scanner. The KeyEventArgs is an enumeration and does not given me the actual string. I dont want to use TextInput as some of the keys may get handled by the control itself and may not bubble up to the TextInput event. I am looking for a way to convert th...

PreviewTextInput is not fired when the focus is on checkbox / Handling the PreviewTextInput in Main window and not allowing child control steal the characters

I have the following code. The window has a textbox and a checkbox. If I have focus on the anything other than checkbox and type something like 123-456 then for each character PreviewKeyDown and PreviewTextInput are firing. But if I have the focus to checkbox and then type 123-456 then the PreviewKeyDown is fired for all the characters...

Up, Down, Left and Right arrow keys do not trigger KeyDown event

I am building an application where all the key input must be handled by the windows itself. I set tabstop to false for each control witch could grab the focus except a panel (but I don't know if it has effect). I set KeyPreview to true and I am handling the KeyDown event on this form. My problem is that sometimes the arrow key aren't ...

jQuery - keydown() on div not working in Firefox

I have the following example code, which should pop up an alert when the div is in focus and a key is pressed. This does what I expect in IE 7, but not in Firefox 3.5.5. What am I doing wrong? <html> <head> <title>JS test</title> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascri...

Focusable Panel in WPF

I need to make a Panel focusable in WPF, so that it captures keyboard events just as any other focusable control: The user clicks inside the Panel to give it focus any KeyDown or KeyUp event is raised at panel level if another focusable element outside the panel is clicked, the panel loses focus I experimented FocusManager.IsFocusSco...

KeyCode and keyboard layout and language

I need to include the asterisk as an allowable entry on a text box. How can I test for this key under the KeyDown event regardless of the keyboard layout and language? Ignoring the numeric keypad, with the Portuguese QWERTY layout this key can be tested through Keys.Shift | Keys.Oemplus. But that will not be the case for other layouts...

WPF KeyDown and Keyup events

Hi when I do in one of my user controls in a WPF application, this.KeyUp += new System.Windows.Input.KeyEventHandler(MultipleControlViewer_KeyUp); or this.KeyDown += new System.Windows.Input.KeyEventHandler(MultipleControlViewer_KeyUp); or this.AddHandler(Window.KeyDownEvent, new System.Windows.Input.KeyEventHandler(MultipleControlViewe...