Usercontrol Capture KeyDown

[JurkMonkey]

Hi,

I have a usercontrol that is trying to capture the keydown event but it is not firing.

Basically, I have a usercontrol that contains other usercontrols. (Its a thumbnail picker)

I want to be able to hold down the "Control" key and notify my container usercontrol that MultiSelect is required. For some reason, the keydown event is not firing.

Any ideas?

 

[JurkMonkey]

Ok, so I figured it out.

I have an image and a label control, both of which don't accept the keydown or keyup event. So when I add the usercontrols (thumbnails) to my container usercontrol, the thumbnail was getting the focus - and when it creates its controls, one of its controls gets focus and therefore, the messages aren't captured.

To fix this, after I add the thumbnail to my container control, I set the container control to have focus.


In my container usercontrol I have:

public void AddThumbnail(UserControl thumbnail)
{
this.Controls.Add(thumbnail);
this.Focus();
}