handling f3 key

[Guest]

Hello,

I have a form and when the user presses the F3 key I want to set the focus
to a textbox where the user can enter a search query.

I figured this had to be really straightforward, but it turns out it isn't.

I tried putting an eventhandler KeyDown on the form, but it never gets
called for the F3 key.
Also tried KeyUp, KeyPress, ProcessDialogKey, ProcessDialogChar,
ProcessDialogCmd, PreProcessMessage. Nothing worked.
I also tried it with KeyPreview set to true on the form.

Strange thing is, that Shift-F3 works, but F3 doesn't.

Now I don't know what to do else.

Any ideas?

Best regards,
Ike Casteleyn

 

[Guest]

Hello,

Since everything works fine on an empty form, I did some more investigation.

My toolbar was blocking the F3 key from happening.

Best regards,
Ike