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

I upvoted Tokabi's answer, but for comparing keys there is some additional advice on StackOverflow.com here. Here are some functions which I used to help simplify everything.

   public Keys UnmodifiedKey(Keys key)
    {
        return key & Keys.KeyCode;
    }

    public bool KeyPressed(Keys key, Keys test)
    {
        return UnmodifiedKey(key) == test;
    }

    public bool ModifierKeyPressed(Keys key, Keys test)
    {
        return (key & test) == test;
    }

    public bool ControlPressed(Keys key)
    {
        return ModifierKeyPressed(key, Keys.Control);
    }

    public bool AltPressed(Keys key)
    {
        return ModifierKeyPressed(key, Keys.Alt);
    }

    public bool ShiftPressed(Keys key)
    {
        return ModifierKeyPressed(key, Keys.Shift);
    }

    protected override bool ProcessCmdKey(ref Message msg, Keys keyData)
    {
        if (KeyPressed(keyData, Keys.Left) && AltPressed(keyData))
        {
            int n = code.Text.IndexOfPrev('<', code.SelectionStart);
            if (n < 0) return false;
            if (ShiftPressed(keyData))
            {
                code.ExpandSelectionLeftTo(n);
            }
            else
            {
                code.SelectionStart = n;
                code.SelectionLength = 0;
            }
            return true;
        }
        else if (KeyPressed(keyData, Keys.Right) && AltPressed(keyData))
        {
            if (ShiftPressed(keyData))
            {
                int n = code.Text.IndexOf('>', code.SelectionEnd() + 1);
                if (n < 0) return false;
                code.ExpandSelectionRightTo(n + 1);
            }
            else
            {
                int n = code.Text.IndexOf('<', code.SelectionStart + 1);
                if (n < 0) return false;
                code.SelectionStart = n;
                code.SelectionLength = 0;
            }
            return true;
        }
        return base.ProcessCmdKey(ref msg, keyData);
    }