Hi all,
I'm trying to write a text editor for a mobile device that can support different coloured text.

So far everything is going well, but the form won't accept the keydown event, i.e. its never fired (the breakpoint is never reached)
Whenever the user clicks the mouse on the control I use the following code:

            if(this.CanFocus)
                if(!this.Focus())
                    MessageBox.Show("No Focus");

It always brings up the message box. It must be able to get focus though. Does anyone know why it won't get focus.

Cheers
DRB2k2

If we're talking about Windows Forms...

You could try setting Form.KeyPreview = true. When this property is true the form receives all keyboard events before they are sent to controls.

As to why the form never receives focus, I not sure without more info, it maybe because there is another control on the form and this control has the input focus.

Hope it helps.

Kep.

Thanks Kep,
That worked fine, but I see that mobile forms don't have a key preview property. Oh well bang goes my idea of developing a control for compact.net and regular .net.

Cheers
DRB2k2