how can I capture the tabkey being pressed?

[jamie]

On my device I am writing for there are two tab keys, one to tab back one
to tab forward. The problem is I don't want tab to move me from the textbox
that is currently focused. I thought about capturing the tab key pressed
or key down event and focusing on the textbox again but the tab key fails to
register in either method. How can I stop tab from moving the focus?

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

Well, you could stop Tab from ever reaching the form. You could use
ApplicationEx and an IMessageFilter subclass, see OpenNETCF.Org for the
Smart Device Framework, and look for all WM_KEYDOWN (I think that's the
right one to look for), events where the virtual key code is VK_TAB. When
you see one of those, simply ignore it. Otherwise, allow it to processed by
the application.

Paul T.

 

[Guest]

Maybe this link could be usefull:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/04/KeyboardSupport/default.aspx