form navigation using keyboard keys

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How can I use up, down, left and right arrow keys of my keyboard in windows application in C# 2008 for moving among the form on runtime.

Posted 23-Nov-10 18:19pm

sevenbell

Updated 24-Nov-10 0:20am

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Dr.Walt Fair, PE 24-Nov-10 0:55am

Since I have no idea what controls are on your form, it's impossible to answer your question, but I'd suggest that you stick with the default behavior, since that is probably what your users are expecting.

For example, do you want the arrow keys to move to a different control? What if the control is a TextBox? Should the arrows stop selecting the text position in the TextBox? What about a GridView?

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Mycroft Holmes · Answer 1 · 2010-11-23T21:17:00

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As suggested by Walt - use the default navigation option using the tab key. This will not confuse the users.

If you insist on using the arrow keys (I hope I never see your app) then you need to trap the keypress\down\up event, decide where you are on the form, locate the next control in the direction you want and select/ set focus on that control.

Posted 23-Nov-10 21:17pm

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Toli Cuturicu 24-Nov-10 5:38am

I also don't like applications with non standard UI conventions.