C# keydown and Splitcontainers?

Question

In my program I have a KeyDown event to read input from the keyboard and i also have a splitcontainer. Now heres the problem, i am trying to use the arrow keys in my KeyDown event but my SplitContainer is using them to control the spliter.

I have tried clicking off of the splitcontainer(to remove focus on that control) and locking the splitter but they dont work.

Answer 1

On your form try setting the KeyPreview property to true.  

Answer 2

You could try stopping the keystroke from ever getting to the splitcontainer. In the splitcontainer's KeyDown event just put e.SuppressKeyPress = true; it should stop the underlying control from receiving the keystroke and stop the split container reacting to it.