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Hi all,

I'm just start implementing winform which integrate with usb keyboard. I try to search on the internet but I don't found any success keyboard input.

If you guys have suggestion, I need guide for complete build app integrate with USB keyboard which start from import,declaring and keydown value. I wish someone could provide me a link to the guideline. Maybe I'm wrong in searching a wording in search engine. TQ

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I apologize for making a confuse question here. Actually I create a simple program using WinForm for VB.net 2010 which when I press a certain key on keyboard, it will perform action such as refresh listview(F5),cancel input (Esc),saving (Ctrl+S) and so on. I guest this integrate mean I need to specify which key is press to perform specific action as stated before. I assume that I will perform all those function using keyboard not by mouse to click. I dont want to use the Alt + XXXX where I can put it on the button function with the _ on the character (if you got what I mean)
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Zoltán Zörgő 19-Nov-13 3:24am    
Whooo... Slowly. You either want some low level stuff, or your question makes no sense at all. What do you mean by integrating with keyboard? A keyboard is a system level device and it is working as input for any windows forms application by default. So please clarify! Key_Down event should work (see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.keydown(v=vs.110).aspx), it is not working or you want a system level keyboard hook or what?
Luiey Ichigo 19-Nov-13 4:10am    
Hi Zoltan,

I apologize for making a confuse question here. Actually I create a simple program using WinForm for VB.net 2010 which when I press a certain key on keyboard, it will perform action such as refresh listview(F5),cancel input (Esc),saving (Ctrl+S) and so on. I guest this integrate mean I need to specify which key is press to perform specific action as stated before. I assume that I will perform all those function using keyboard not by mouse to click. I dont want to use the Alt + XXXX where I can put it on the button function with the _ on the character (if you got what I mean)

Assuming that the keyboard is a standard device, then it needs no work on your part at all, unless you want to capture some keystroke combinations and use them as "hotkeys" in your application.
A keyboard is handled by the OS and just passes data through via the normal events, regardless of whether it is PS/" or USB, and regardless of whether you have one, two or seven physical keyboards plugged in. I have often had two keyboards connected at the same time (for different layout/languages) and it all works exactly as you would expect - seamlessly.
 
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So you want simple shortcuts.
First of all, if you use buttons shortcut availability is default. Simply put an amp in the text: Button1.Text = "&Ok"; , and you have Alt+O as shortcut (but you don't want this for some reason). With menus, you have even more possibilities, see here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.menuitem.shortcut(v=vs.110).aspx[^]. If you want to have more general approach to be able to add custom shortcuts to custom actions, you can have a look here: http://snipplr.com/view/57156/[^].
 
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Luiey Ichigo 28-Nov-13 22:58pm    
Hi Zoltan,

Sorry to make you misunderstanding. I want to create a program that can replace button to perform action. Let's say user key in an ID on textboxt1. User will click on button Enter to perform searching. I want user to press Enter on keyboard so when it perform, I will detect user press that Enter key and I will perform search.

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