Keydown Event not firing

Question

Trying to fire up an event when a button is pressed on the keyboard. Ive set the Form1 property to have the KeyPreview to True as well. But still, its not firing and i cant see whats wrong.

private void Form1_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Modifiers == Keys.A)
    MessageBox.Show("A pressed");
    else if (e.Modifiers == Keys.Alt && e.KeyCode == Keys.F1)
    MessageBox.Show("Combination of ALt and F1 pressed");
}

Answer 1

try with KeyCode:

if (e.KeyCode==Keys.A)
                MessageBox.Show("A pressed");
            ...

Also keep in mind that Form1 must have the focus when you press the corresponding button

Answer 2

Set the KeyPreview property of the form to true.

Otherwise the child controls will catch the event first.

Answer 3

setting the event

this.KeyDown += Form5_KeyDown;
this.KeyPreview = true;

the event

void Form5_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.KeyCode == Keys.A)
        MessageBox.Show("A pressed");
    else if (e.Modifiers == Keys.Alt && e.KeyCode == Keys.F1)
        MessageBox.Show("Combination of ALt and F1 pressed");
}

dont forget the KeyPreview = true , if you want to handle all keydown