how not to allow multiple keystokes received at one key press?

Question

when we press a key and keep pressing it the keypress and keydown event continuously fires. Is there a way to let these fire only after a complete cycle ,eg keydown and the

Answer 1

To prevent a key from firing multiple-times when held down : you must use the SuppressKeyPress property like so :

bool isKeyRepeating = false;

public void textBox1_KeyDown(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs e)
{
    if (isKeyRepeating)
    {
        e.SuppressKeyPress = true;
    }
    else
    {
        isKeyRepeating = true;
    }

}

public void textBox1_KeyUp(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs e)
{
    isKeyRepeating = false;
}

See : KeyEventArgs..::.Handled Property ... and ... KeyEventArgs..::.SuppressKeyPress Property .... for relevant information