Trying to catch arrows keydown events

[efkefk]

Hello.

I am able to do that by overriding "ProcessCmdKey", but I have problem to detect "shift + arrow" or "ctrl + arrow" keydown event (I need also to be able to detect that). So that would be much easier if I could catch the event in the main form keydown event (Form1_KeyDown) !

I read that setting KeyPreview to true should be the solution. So I added this line: this.KeyPreview = true;
But I am still not able to catch the arrow keydown event, when the focus is on a button.

It there a way to catch arrow keydown events into the main form keydown event (Form1_KeyDown) ?

Or is it an obligation to override "ProcessCmdKey" ?

If the lonely way is to override "ProcessCmdKey", is it possible to catch also "shift + arrow" and "ctrl + arrow" from there ?

Thank you.

[Andy Tacker]

const int WM_KEYDOWN = 0x100;
const int WM_SYSKEYDOWN = 0x104;
protected override bool ProcessCmdKey(ref Message m, Keys keyCode)
{
if ((m.Msg == WM_KEYDOWN) || (m.Msg == WM_SYSKEYDOWN))
{
switch (keyCode)
{
case Keys.F | Keys.Control:
//do something;
break;
case Keys.F5:
//do something;
break;
case Keys.Control | Keys.F10:
//do something;
break;
}
}
return base.ProcessCmdKey(ref m, keyCode);
}

[efkefk]

This works well.
Thank you very much.