Key Events in combo and hardware keys

[John Kinghorn]

Hi

Is it possible to trap the keypress/keydown/keyup events in a compact
framework combo box?

The events are there but do not get raised.
As they work properly with the text box I fear that this may be a "by
design" bug?

Basicaly I need to trap the Dpad hardware key presses when a combo and
numericUpdown control have focus and perform some other function at
that point

If this is not possbile with the key events is there another way to do
this?

John

 

[Xin Yan]

John.,

Can you try subscribe to ComboBox.SelectedIndexChanged and
NumericUpDown.SelectedItemChanged events in stead of intercepting the keys?

Thanks

Xin

 

[John Kinghorn]

This would be no good.

I want to trap the key press before anything is changed as in certain
circumstances i would not want changes to take place.

I have heard that the missing events will be present in the next SP of
the Compact framework, do you know if this is correct?

Regards
John

 

[Katie Schaeffer [MSFT]]

Hello John,

In SP2, we added key events. However, I suspect you will run into another
known issue we have - you won't be able to specify the key events as
handled - or prevent them from going to the control. You'll still need to
manually set the combo box back to the previous value - so you're probably
better off using the SelectedIndexChanged event anyway.

-Katie

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| This would be no good.
|
| I want to trap the key press before anything is changed as in certain
| circumstances i would not want changes to take place.
|
| I have heard that the missing events will be present in the next SP of
| the Compact framework, do you know if this is correct?
|
| Regards
| John
|
| (e-mail address removed) (Xin Yan) wrote in message
| > John.,
| >
| > Can you try subscribe to ComboBox.SelectedIndexChanged and
| > NumericUpDown.SelectedItemChanged events in stead of intercepting the
keys?
| >
| > Thanks
| >
| > Xin
|