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Gunnar Stableford
Gunnar Stableford

Reputation: 5

How to set focus back to form, after button is pressed

I am making a game, and to open up and close the store, you press S. While in the store, you have six different choices to buy from, but they are all buttons.

However, once you buy something, the focus is no longer on the form, but on the button, and the key down event is part of the form, therefore, because the focus gets switched from the form to the button, the key down event no longer works, and disables you from closing the store and continuing on with the game.

My question is how to set the focus back to a form once a button is press? I started out with visual basic, and the code would be something along the lines of form1.setfocus, but its totally different in c#.

I have tried Activating the form, .focus, a lot, and nothing seems to be setting the focus back to the form. Help would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2050

Answers (3)

andy
andy

Reputation: 6079

You can add the key down event to the buttons too.

Upvotes: 0

Hemal
Hemal

Reputation: 3760

Form1.focus();

But I think, to get keyboard events on Form itself, you need KeyPreview set to true for the Form so that Form gets Keys first and then other controls.

Upvotes: 1

user585968
user585968

Reputation:

Try:

form.Focus();

MSDN:

The Focus method returns true if the control successfully received input focus. The control can have the input focus while not displaying any visual cues of having the focus. This behavior is primarily observed by the nonselectable controls listed below, or any controls derived from them.

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Upvotes: 0

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