Keyboard events not firing...

[Quimbly]

My KeyDown / KeyUp / KeyPress events are not firing; I can't figure
out what I'm doing wrong. The code I'm using is basically straight
from the manual.

"this" refers to my Windows.Forms.Form object.


this.KeyDown += new
System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventHandler(this.MainForm_KeyDown);
this.KeyPress += new
System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventHandler(this.MainForm_KeyPress);
this.KeyUp += new
System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventHandler(this.MainForm_KeyUp);


And for implementations I simply have:

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private void MainForm_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("KeyDown Event!");
statusBar.Text = e.KeyCode.ToString();
}
private void MainForm_KeyUp(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("KeyUp Event!");
statusBar.Text = e.KeyCode.ToString();
}
private void MainForm_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs
e)
{
MessageBox.Show("KeyPress Event!");
statusBar.Text = e.KeyChar.ToString();
}
[/code:1:4c42e66fb0]

The message boxes are not coming up and the status bar is not changing
when I hit keys. What am I doing wrong?

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[Guest]

The key events are "eaten" by the controls on your form. If you set the
KeyPreview property to true for your form, the events will be fired for the
form.

HTH, Jakob.