How to handle the NMT keyboard

[mvallevand]

I'm trying to get ML3 to respond to the NMT keyboard the way Bekken did in Music and Sub does on the Recording Seach but I can't see it in my OnKeyDown events. Do I have to define OnKeyPress an fake something? I can't get OnKeyPress on IMenuTask with this definition

public bool OnKeyPress(System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs e)
{
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("press");
return false;
}

Any suggestions.

Martin

[mvallevand]

I struggled with this for 1/2 an hour make this post and wouldn't you know by clicking on enough things in Visual C# Express I find that it is in

IExtendedKeyProcessing not IMenuTask

Martin

[sub]

Yep, the key is the plugin needs to implement the IExtendedKeyProcessing interface.

[mvallevand]

I'm not sure if this is an acceptable hack or not but this is how I've implemented it in ML3

Code:

public bool OnKeyPress(System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs e)
        {
            if (yourPluginLogicNMT == true)
            {
                int myKey = Convert.ToInt32(e.KeyChar & 0x5f);
                if (myKey >= 65 && myKey <= 90)
                    this.OnKeyDown(new System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs((System.Windows.Forms.Keys)myKey));
            }
            return false;
        }

Martin