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Thomas Carlton
Thomas Carlton

Reputation: 5968

KeyDown event doesn't fire on ContextMenuStrip with enter key?

.NET : I have a Context menu strip that I want to handle using keyboard keys.

I have the following event handler:

Private Sub ContextMenuEnterKey(ByVal Sender As Object, ByVal E As KeyEventArgs) Handles ContextMenu.KeyDown

    If E.KeyValue = Keys.Enter Then
        'Do some staff
    End If

End Sub

The events fires correctly with other keys except EnterKey.

Does anyone know what's wrong with that ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1325

Answers (1)

MartinStettner
MartinStettner

Reputation: 29164

To which control's KeyDown event are you binding your handler? In the Forms designer the ? KeyDown event isn't even shown for ContextMenuStrip (at least here in VS2012, and I'm working in C#...) I can bind to in in code, but this doesn't seem to have any effect.

But there is a PreviewKeyDown event in ContextMenuStrip which gets called for every keystroke within the context menu, also for the Enter key. Maybe this can help you?

Upvotes: 3

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