combined keyPresses

[C_ntua]

Can you detect a combination of keys pressed with a KeyPressed event handler on a Windows.Form?
I want to detect the UP and RIGHT arrow for example being pressed together (to move something diagonally)

[deviousdexter]

hi - i had a similar problem and posed the same question elsewhere.

my reply was to use

public static bool IsKeyDown(Keys key)
        {
            return GetAsyncKeyState((int)key) < 0;
        }

        [System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("user32.dll")]
        public static extern short GetAsyncKeyState(int vkey);

then use something like

bool temp;

            if ((temp = IsKeyDown(Keys.Right)) && (temp = IsKeyDown(Keys.Left)))

            //do something here depending on keys ( right & left at same time in this case)

this will return the state of every key on the keyboard allowing you to check for simultaneous key presses.

hope this helps

[C_ntua]

Yup. That works fine