Re: scrollbar usercontrol still a problem

sigh, this is still a problem. I'm about a day from sucking it up and
spending the $ to call MS paid support to get this answered. Nobody
seems to have the foggiest idea of the fix for this.


On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 01:49:50 GMT, Allen <none@none.com> wrote:

>
>I've asked this a few times and haven't gotten any response. So this
>is either a rediculously complicated problem or a rediculously easy
>problem that I don't see. Either way, this problem is killin me!
>
>I have a usercontrol and two scrollbars planted on that control. I
>set tabstop = true on the usercontrol and tabstop = false on both
>scrollbars. I handle the 'scroll' events in the user control.
>
>All of this works great until until the keyboard comes into play and
>things go horribly wrong. First off, I can't seem to trap the arrow
>keys in the user control at all. Second until I set the GotFocus
>event of the scrollbars and threw a Parent.SetFocus() in it, the
>scrollbars flashed endlessly when I touched an arrow key (or page
>up/down). Now, even though I am stopping the flash, the arrow keys
>still only seem to affect which scrollbar was first affected by a
>arrow key.
>
>what the heck am I doing wrong here? How do I stop the scrollbars
>from ever caring about or getting any keyboard input. I want the
>scroll bars to do nothing about a keyboard event EVER (and I want the
>usercontrol to get all keyboard events including those arrow keys that
>the scrollbars keep stealing). How do I even start to do this?