Question

I have a form with an button which is set as the AcceptButton of the form. The form has several other controls. Now when I press Enter on other controls the form gets closed because of the accept button on the form. Same goes for CancelButton. How do I handle this. I tried hooking on to keypress keydown event of the form and controls. None works. Any work around for this?

Thanks a ton,
Datte

Answer 1

Not exactly sure about how you expect your form to function, but you could do something like the following to have a little more control over things:

    protected override bool ProcessCmdKey(ref Message msg, Keys keyData)
    {
        if (keyData == Keys.Enter)
        {
            // do something
        }
        if (keyData == Keys.Escape)
        {
            // do something else
        }
        return base.ProcessCmdKey(ref msg, keyData);
    }