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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

C# .NET: Ignoring Alt-F4 key combination

Alt-F4 is a shortcut that closes a window. For some reason you may not be fond of this behavior. After doing some digging around, I finally found a good method of ignoring this request - overriding the ProcessDialogKey method. You can go do more research if you'd like, but the basic code is as follows:

protected override bool ProcessDialogKey(Keys keyData)
{
if (keyData == (Keys.Alt | Keys.F4))
return true;
else
return base.ProcessDialogKey(keyData);
}

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you !!
Helped me a lot!
Cheers

Dr.Shadow said...

Thank you very much! For some reason I had to create this shortkey to close application. It wouldn't do otherwise.
Cheers!

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