"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" wrote:

> "Michael Maes" <michael.maes@community.nospam> schrieb:
> > I want to have a Button.Click event 'raise' a shortcut.
> > If eg Button1 is Clicked, I want to have a shortcut 'CTRL + F12'
> > activated.
>
> Call the menu item's 'PerformClick' method.
>
> --
>  M S   Herfried K. Wagner
> M V P  <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
>  V B   <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>
>
>

"Michael Maes" <michael.maes@community.nospam> schreef in bericht
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> The PerformClick-Method Raises the Click-Event.
> What I need is to raise/activate a Shortcut in code (whatever the control
> calling the code is).
>
> To make it clear: I could want to use Label.MouseEnter to activate/raise a
> certain Shortcut.
>
>
> "Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> "Michael Maes" <michael.maes@community.nospam> schrieb:
>> > I want to have a Button.Click event 'raise' a shortcut.
>> > If eg Button1 is Clicked, I want to have a shortcut 'CTRL + F12'
>> > activated.
>>
>> Call the menu item's 'PerformClick' method.
>>
>> --
>>  M S   Herfried K. Wagner
>> M V P  <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
>>  V B   <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>
>>
>>

"Cor Ligthert [MVP]" wrote:

> Michael,
>
> Is it not more normal to perform the code that should be done with the
> shortcut?
>
> Cor
>
> "Michael Maes" <michael.maes@community.nospam> schreef in bericht
> news:FD0DABEF-239D-4C6A-86EC-86CC840FA868@microsoft.com...
> > The PerformClick-Method Raises the Click-Event.
> > What I need is to raise/activate a Shortcut in code (whatever the control
> > calling the code is).
> >
> > To make it clear: I could want to use Label.MouseEnter to activate/raise a
> > certain Shortcut.
> >
> >
> > "Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" wrote:
> >
> >> "Michael Maes" <michael.maes@community.nospam> schrieb:
> >> > I want to have a Button.Click event 'raise' a shortcut.
> >> > If eg Button1 is Clicked, I want to have a shortcut 'CTRL + F12'
> >> > activated.
> >>
> >> Call the menu item's 'PerformClick' method.
> >>
> >> --
> >>  M S   Herfried K. Wagner
> >> M V P  <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
> >>  V B   <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

"Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]" wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> Based on my understanding, there is some logic in your winform application
> that intercepts the Ctrl+F12 key combination shortcut. Now, you want to
> activate this shortcut code logic in various places, such as Button.Click
> event and Label.MouseEnter event etc... If I have misunderstood you, please
> feel free to tell me, thanks.
>
> Normally, in this situation, the recommended solution is placing all the
> code that is processing the Ctrl+F12 shortcut in a subroutine function, so
> we can call this subroutine function in various places to achieve/activate
> the same Ctrl+F12 code logic.
>
> If your application has the limitation that the code that processes Ctrl+F12
> spreads in many places and is hard to maintain in a single subroutine
> function, you may really need to simulate the Ctrl+F12 key combination
> programmatically. .Net provided System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys class for this
> function. You may use SendKeys.Send() method to simulate the shortcut. More
> specificly,  you may use SendKeys.Send("^{F12}"). The detailed keystroke
> parameter table is listed in the MSDN link below:
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.sendkeys.send.aspx
>
> SendKeys.Send() is also useful to trigger keyboard shortcut of other
> applications, since other application's code is not callable from our code.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Best regards,
> Jeffrey Tan
> Microsoft Online Community Support
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"Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]" <je***@online.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
news:OilmgqG8GHA.3396@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi Michael,
>
> Based on my understanding, there is some logic in your winform application
> that intercepts the Ctrl+F12 key combination shortcut. Now, you want to
> activate this shortcut code logic in various places, such as Button.Click
> event and Label.MouseEnter event etc... If I have misunderstood you,
> please feel free to tell me, thanks.
>
> Normally, in this situation, the recommended solution is placing all the
> code that is processing the Ctrl+F12 shortcut in a subroutine function, so
> we can call this subroutine function in various places to achieve/activate
> the same Ctrl+F12 code logic.
>
> If your application has the limitation that the code that processes
> Ctrl+F12 spreads in many places and is hard to maintain in a single
> subroutine function, you may really need to simulate the Ctrl+F12 key
> combination programmatically. .Net provided System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys
> class for this function. You may use SendKeys.Send() method to simulate
> the shortcut. More specificly,  you may use SendKeys.Send("^{F12}"). The
> detailed keystroke parameter table is listed in the MSDN link below:
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.sendkeys.send.aspx
>
> SendKeys.Send() is also useful to trigger keyboard shortcut of other
> applications, since other application's code is not callable from our
> code.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Best regards,
> Jeffrey Tan
> Microsoft Online Community Support
> ==================================================
> Get notification to my posts through email? Please refer to
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/managednewsgroups/default.aspx#notifications.
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> Engineer
> within 1 business day is acceptable. Please note that each follow up
> response may take approximately 2 business days as the support
> professional working with you may need further investigation to reach the
> most efficient resolution. The offering is not appropriate for situations
> that require urgent, real-time or phone-based interactions or complex
> project analysis and dump analysis issues. Issues of this nature are best
> handled working with a dedicated Microsoft Support Engineer by contacting
> Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS) at
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/support/default.aspx.
> ==================================================
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
>
>
>

"Michael Maes" <michael.maes@community.nospam> wrote in message
news:1718D308-DDB0-4F87-9E7E-CF5DF50C7E06@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I want to have a Button.Click event 'raise' a shortcut.
> If eg Button1 is Clicked, I want to have a shortcut 'CTRL + F12'
> activated.
>
> What's the best way to acchieve this.
>
> TIA,
>
> Michael

"Jay B. Harlow" wrote:

> Michael,
> In addition to the other comments.
>
> Where is the short-cut? (what control has 'CTRL + F12' as a short cut?)
>
> Do you know or is it "arbitrary", by "arbitrary" I mean the user can set it.
>
> If you know that the WhateverMenuItem has 'CTRL + F12' as short cut you can
> simply PerformClick on that menu item. As PerformClick is a method available
> on Button (as Herfried suggested), MenuItem (.NET 1.x menus), ToolStripItem
> (.NET 2.0 menus), and RadioButtons. FWIW: PerformClick is part of the
> IButtonControl interface allowing "commands" to expose invoking their
> "click" event.
>
>     Public Sub WhateverButton_Click(...)
>         WhateverMenuItem.PerformClick()
>     End Sub
>
> If its "arbitrary" in that your button has a "short cut" property on it on
> what short cut to perform, I would consider using the SendKeys.Send method
> to send the "short cut" to the main form in your app & let it then find the
> respective short cut...
>
>     Public Sub WhateverButton_Click(...)
>         SendKeys.Send("^{F12}")
>     End Sub
>
>
> --
> Hope this helps
> Jay B. Harlow
> .NET Application Architect, Enthusiast, & Evangelist
> T.S. Bradley - http://www.tsbradley.net
>
>
> "Michael Maes" <michael.maes@community.nospam> wrote in message
> news:1718D308-DDB0-4F87-9E7E-CF5DF50C7E06@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to have a Button.Click event 'raise' a shortcut.
> > If eg Button1 is Clicked, I want to have a shortcut 'CTRL + F12'
> > activated.
> >
> > What's the best way to acchieve this.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Michael
>