C# and Arrow Keys

Question

I am new to C# and am doing some work in an existing application. I have a DirectX viewport that has components in it that I want to be able to position using arrow keys.

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Answer 1

Within your overridden ProcessCmdKey how are you determining which key has been pressed?

The value of keyData (the second parameter) will change dependant on the key pressed and any modifier keys, so, for example, pressing the left arrow will return code 37, shift-left will return 65573, ctrl-left 131109 and alt-left 262181.

You can extract the modifiers and the key pressed by ANDing with appropriate enum values:

protected override bool ProcessCmdKey(ref Message msg, Keys keyData)
{
    bool shiftPressed = (keyData & Keys.Shift) != 0;
    Keys unmodifiedKey = (keyData & Keys.KeyCode);

    // rest of code goes here
}