Arrow keys and button focus

[cbreemer]

This is probably an easy question, and possibly a stupid one... but I've been searching and could not find an answer.
When I have a form with a number of buttons, pressing the arrow keys cycles through the buttons, giving each one of them focus in turn. How can I prevent that ?
I want to use the arrow keys for other purposes. Well I already do, and that works, but they STILL cycle through the buttons as well...
Looking at the button parameters I don't see anything that might help. I already have TabStop=false and TabIndex=0 on all buttons.

 

[JohnH]

This is a good place to start when navigating the intricacies of keyboard handling in winforms: Overview of keyboard input - Windows Forms .NET

 

[cbreemer]

Thanks, that looks very interesting. Although I was rather hoping not to have to go into these intricacies and bother with Windows messages.... I thought there might perhaps be some setting in the form or buttons that would prevent this ?

 

[JohnH]

Look into overriding ProcessDialogKey.

 

[cbreemer]

Look into overriding ProcessDialogKey.

That sound much more attractive to me ! I'll try it out. Thanks again.

 

[Skydiver]

This is worth reading:

Probably more than you want to know about keyboarding in Windows Forms….

learn.microsoft.com

(Suddenly feeling very nostalgic about past interactions with Jessica...)

 

[JohnH]

Here with original formatting: Probably more than you want to know about keyboarding in Windows Forms - 刺客mrchenzh - 博客园

 

[cbreemer]

Thanks guys. I remember seeing this article before here, and thinking "yeah, indeed rather more than I want to know" If ProcessDialogKey does not provide a solution I may have to study it yet. Or maybe do that anyway.