how to deactivate the keyboard?

[ektoras]

What is the way to deactivate the keyboard while my richTextBox is being updated?

[Heath Stewart]

While there are a few ways ranging from overriding ProcessDialogKey and doing nothing while a state variable is set to P/Invoking SetWindowsHookEx and writing an extremely efficient and robust keyboard hook, the most simple way is to set RichTextBox.Enabled to false. The point of disabling a control is to disable input into that control. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Software Design Engineer Developer Division Sustained Engineering Microsoft [My Articles] [My Blog]