keyboard event listener

[hazzem elrefai]

i have win form and i have registered keyboard event for it but it doesn't work //////////////////////// this.KeyDown += new System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventHandler(this.MainForm_KeyDown); //////////////////////// private void MainForm_KeyDown(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs e) { MessageBox.Show(e.KeyValue.ToString()); } //////////////////////// but when i press any key on my keyboard, i doesn't recieve any thing. thnx in advance

[hazzem elrefai]

i recieve nothing..... thnx

[Heath Stewart]

If another Control has the focus (and it most likely does), you won't receive keyboard events. You have to set Form.KeyPreview to true. Then you should have better results.

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[hazzem elrefai]

but i wanna listen to more than one key like "ctrl+h" or like this

[Heath Stewart]

As far as text in your console app go, you can use the Console.In properties (a TextReader) to grab typeable characters like "h". When you get input like this, call the GetKeyState method (after P/Invoking it, of course) to determine whether or not a modifier key is pressed.

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