Question

I need to set System.Windows.Forms.Keys to a string that I have assigned.

I am using a 3rd party .Net control that lets me assign the HotKey to the control, and it uses System.Windows.Forms.Keys to set the HotKey. For example:

this.systemHotKey1.SetHotKey(System.Windows.Forms.Keys.S); //Assign S as the HotKey

However, System.Windows.Forms.Keys will not let me assign a string to it, I need to assign an actual value to it. For example this works fine:

System.Windows.Forms.Keys.S (for the hotkey S on the keyboard).

But I want to do something like this:

{
string tmpString = "S";
this.systemHotKey1.SetHotKey(System.Windows.Forms.Keys.tmpString);  //This does not work
}

Can someone please show me a way I can assign a string to System.Windows.Forms.Keys so I can accomplish this?

Answer 1

You can do this by using KeysConverter

string tmpString = "S";
KeysConverter kc = new KeysConverter();
this.systemHotKey1.SetHotKey(kc.ConvertFromString(tmpstring));