Event in visual C#

[Hemant Mane]

Hi, I want to use Keypress event in my windows form. When user press enter that time i want to catch that event. and how to use the keypress event because in visual c# i never seen ASCII keys. Tell me how to catch keypress event and use ASCII values for trap the key which is press by the user. Thank You for Help, (Hemant Uttam Mane)

[A Wegierski]

Web or Win Form? There are some events and properties in WinForm to see keyboard: KeyPreview, KeyPress, KeyDown etc. See EventArgs and KeyData, KeyChar, KeyCode properties. Hi, AW

[Heath Stewart]

There's many ways of doing this. If you want to catch these in your derivative class, override OnKeyDown. External to your class, handle the KeyDown event. This is to catch and potentially "handle" the key without it being passed to the target window. If you don't care about stopping it from being dispatched, you can handle either KeyPress or KeyUp. In there, you actually use the KeyEventArgs - not the EventArgs like the other response mentioned - to get the Keys enumeration member for pressed keys, or just the ASCII character value itself. See the documentation for the KeyEventArgs members for more details. If you want to catch keys throughout your application (say, for configurable hot keys), implement the IMessageFilter class and add your implementing using Application.AddMessageFilter. You get a Message structure that contains the message (such as WM_KEYDOWN) and you can get the data from the WParam and LParam properties. You can also return true to signal that you've handled it and the message should not be dispatched.

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