Get keydown event without a textbox

Question

Im trying to do like that: If I press the key "P" a messagebox will open in the screen.But I need to do it without a textbox or other tool, I want to do that direct in the form.

I tried:

private void Form1_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.KeyCode == Keys.P)
        { MessageBox.Show("Key P pressed"); }
    }

Answer 1

Try with the KeyPress Event of the form. It just works fine.

Answer 2

Assuming this is Winforms, on the form you're trying to catch the event on, make sure to set

Form1.KeyPreview = true;

KeyPreview ensures that keyboard events anywhere on the particular form (such as to a textbox with focus) will still count as a keyboard event for the form itself.