Short Keys to Window Form

[anderslundsgard]

How do I catch for e.g. a + s (User want to save) to my Form (C#). _____________________________ ...and justice for all APe

[Darren_]

If you want to add a shortcut key combination to an event handler you could look at the: System.Windows.Forms.Shortcut. pre defined set. such as: System.Windows.Forms.Shortcut.CtrlS; for Ctrl + S. if you wanted to add this to an event handler for a menu bar for e.g. you would do this for an Exit item with Ctrl + X as shortcut keys: Menu.MenuItems.Add(new MenuItem("E&xit", new EventHandler(this.FileExit_Clicked), Shortcut.CtrlX)); where FileExit_Clicked is your event handling method.

[kasik]

If you want to catch Ctrl+S you can override ProcessCmdKey in your Form derived class, like this...

protected override bool ProcessCmdKey ( ref Message msg, Keys keyData )
{
    const int WM_KEYDOWN = 0x100;
    
    if ( msg.Msg == WM_KEYDOWN && keyData == ( Keys.Control | Keys.S ) )
    {
        MessageBox.Show("You have pressed Ctrl+S");
        return true;
    }
    
    return base.ProcessCmdKey( ref msg, keyData );
}

Hope that helps :)

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[anderslundsgard]

That made it!! Thanks! _____________________________ ...and justice for all APe