What about trapping the key_whatever event at the form level and then determine the control that caused it, would this work?
John Warner > -----Original Message----- > From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Osucha > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 3:06 PM > To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] form key handling > > > That doesn't exactly work as desired, Adam. Here are a > collection of links discussing this - I haven't yet looked at > one that help me out. > > The behavior I'm looking for is similar to when you press > [ENTER] in one of the Outlook drop down boxes on the main > Outlook form. > > http://www.google.com/search?q=combobox+enter+key+c%23&ie=utf- 8&oe=utf-8 &aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a Peter -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Tuliper Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 2:30 PM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] form key handling just something like this would work.....no? private void comboBox1_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e) { MessageBox.Show( ((short)System.Windows.Forms.Keys.Enter == (short)e.KeyChar).ToString()); } On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Peter Osucha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have a good link that shows how to handle an [ENTER] key > press when a user types in a combobox? I've looked at several examples > that I googled and can't seem to make much sense out of them. > > Sincerely, > Peter =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentorR http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentorĀ® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com