Is there an option to force Enter to be the main key on certain view? What I want to achieve is whenever I click "Enter" key I want to invoke button which has "IsDefault" property set to true, no matter what is focused.
One possibility would be to intercept the RoutedEvent before it gets to the controls that try to react to it:
Connect to the PreviewKeyDown event as far up the visual tree as you want to catch it. React to it there accordingly if the enter key was pressed, e.g. run the same code as in your button, and then set in the eventargs Handled to true.
private void previewKeyDownHandler(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
if(e.Key == Key.Enter || e.Key == Key.Return)
{
e.Handled = true;
//Do your stuff
}
}
The Preview events are part of the RoutedEvent system in WPF. The 2 mechanisms are called Tunneling and Bubbling. Here you can read more on that.
Related
'Enter' key in AutoSuggestBox calls to QuerySubmitted event, like clicking the icon. It is a Windows 10 project.
I need to discriminate the Enter key because I use it to go to the next field. I tried KeyDown event, but it is not called.
How can I do it?
Don't ask me why, but you need to use KeyUp event and everything works fine.
Ex:
private void ContactsBox_KeyUp(object sender, KeyRoutedEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Key == Windows.System.VirtualKey.Enter)
{
//some stuff here
}
}
I'm writing a Hangman program in C# and when I press a keyboard button I want the button on the form to be clicked. Where should I write this? In form1.load()?
No, you should select the Form on which you want the event to be triggered, then go to the properties pane, select the event tab and go down to KeyPress event, double click it and add some code.
Normaly something like this would do what you want, just google the KeyChar value to determine the keyPress you want to control, you can add more if statements:
private void Form1_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e)
{
if (e.KeyChar == (char)13)
{
Button1.PerformClick();
}
//Other if statements if you want to keep an eye out for other keyPresses
}
[edit] I just remembered you might be also considering the shortcuts, in wich case the Button1.Text property should be marked &Button1, this way the "B" would be underlined and accept the alt+B shortcut to execute the button click event.
The & symbol is set before the letter you want for the shortcut, make sure you dont use the same letter for various buttons.
You wouldn't write the code in Form.Load() if you want it to happen in response to a keyboard event. That event occurs (and the code inside of it is executed) when your form first loads (appears on screen).
How about handling the KeyPress event and writing the code in that method, instead? Your form has one of those events, too.
Sample code:
private void Form1_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e)
{
Button1.PerformClick();
}
The PerformClick method will generate a Click event for a Button control. You can handle that Click event in a similar way:
private void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// do something in response to the button being clicked
// ...
MessageBox.Show("Button clicked!");
}
If this event-handling stuff is confusing to you, make sure that you pick up a good book on programming in C# and/or the .NET Framework so that you learn it well. It's very important and not something to skip!
You have to enable KeyPreview property on the form, then you have to implements the KeyPress event directly on the form :
Form1.KeyPress +=new KeyPressEventHandler(Form1_KeyPress);
private void Form1_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e) {
if(e.KeyCode == someKey) {
button1.performclick();
}
}
private void Form_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
if(e.KeyCode == Keys.Left)
{
// Do your hang job
Button_Click(sender, EventArgs.Empty);
}
}
You need to subscribe to the events of interest and process them after. But before you need to read and study how to do that. It's a not a difficult issue in C#.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171534.aspx
One time subscribed to the events create a function that you can call from button click and from keydown.
Normally when pressing the TAB key you change the focus to the next control in the given tab order. I would like to prevent that and have the TAB key do something else. In my case I'd like to change focus from a combobox to a completely different control. I can't do this by setting the tab order. I need to do this programatically. Any idea how? It seems like the KeyDown and KeyPress events can't handle TAB key correctly.
Thanks.
Override ProcessDialogKey or ProcessTabKey on your Form and do the logic you want depending on which control is focused.
Based on JRS's suggestion of using the PreviewKeyDown event, this sends the key press through to the control:
private void textBox1_PreviewKeyDown(object sender, PreviewKeyDownEventArgs e)
{
if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Tab)
e.IsInputKey = true;
}
Then you can handle the control's KeyDown event if you want to customise the behaviour:
private void textBox1_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Tab)
{
MessageBox.Show("The tab key was pressed while holding these modifier keys: "
+ e.Modifiers.ToString());
}
}
TextBoxBase alternative
If the control is derived from TextBoxBase (i.e. TextBox or RichTextBox), with the Multiline property set to true, then you can simply set the AcceptsTab property to true.
TextBoxBase.AcceptsTab Property
Gets or sets a value indicating whether pressing the TAB key in a multiline text box control types a TAB character in the control instead of moving the focus to the next control in the tab order.
Override the control's LostFocus event see link below for examples:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.lostfocus.aspx
Since I am building a UserControl, I ended up using the PreviewKeyDown event on the control. This avoids having to handle key press events on the host form.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.previewkeydown.aspx
You can try this code on your KeyDown event:
if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Tab) {
//your logic
e.SuppressKeyPress = true;
}
If the button clicked is Tab, then do any custom logic you want, then call SuppressKeyPress to stop the KeyPress event from firing and invoking the normal Tab logic for you.
I have a RichTextBox that allows the user to type and edit and insert some complex UIElements that are wrapped in InlineUIContainer. The problem is when the user tries to delete/backspace one of the InlineUIContainers. I would like to disable deleting of these InlineUIContainers and I have another way for the user to delete them.
I have tried intercepting the deletion with the KeyEvents/PreviewKeyEvents, the textchanged event, the unload event of the UIElement. So far, they are not working because the deletion is trying to execute before those events are called.
Try PreviewKeyDown:
private void RichTextBox_PreviewKeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Key == Key.Delete)
{
e.Handled = true;
}
}
I would like to control the focus of my winform application. It is made of a custom listbox and several other component.
I want all the keyboard event be managed by my window handlers in order to avoid specific control key handling (for example when I press a character and the list box is focused, the item starting with the correspondant letter is selected which is not a correct behaviour for my application).
How can I achieve this?
Make sure your form's KeyPreview property is set to true. Then this code should work for canceling your key events to the listbox...
private void Form1_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e)
{
if (this.ActiveControl == listBox1)
e.Handled = true;
}
The KeyPress event may not work for all your scenarios. In that case, I would try out the KeyDown event.