[Closed] dotNet Keyboard focus, control keyboard

Hi this is my first post on this forums so I will try to make this post as good as possible;)

I’m trying to create an dotNet interface overlay in 3ds max with the possibility to do keyboardshortcuts or using a searchfield for example. But what ever I do max wont let go of the keyboard focus, i’ve tried several different methods like:

form = dotNetObject “form”
form.focus() –only brings form to the front and not the keyboard focus

dnKeyboard = dotNetObject “system.windows.Forms.Control”
keyboard.focus() – which always returns false

Then there are several methods that actually do work, I will also explain why I don’t want to use these:

–this is the best one I’ve found so far since it does what I want but with activeXcontroler help, which is something I would like to avoid for compatibility issues in the future.
–But this one actually work with out any issus in dotNet right now.
enableAccelerators = false –write this when you want to have control
enableAccelerators = true –and this when your script is done

simple example script:
–dotNet interface
form = dotNetObject “form”
dnKeyboard = dotNetObject “system.windows.Forms.Control”
form.show()

–DotNet function
fn KeyPressed senderArg keyPressEventArgs =
(print (keyPressEventArgs.KeyData))
dotnet.addEventHandler form “KeyUp” KeyPressed

–activeX controller
–Fixing the problem but isn’t the nicest solution.
–Run it one more time to giva back controll to max
if (enableAccelerators) then (enableAccelerators = false) else (enableAccelerators = true)

another solution that (kind of)works is to use a regular max rollout, with this solution you for starters get the max rollout which would not work for what I have intended to do, but also a window that constantly must be at the top:

rollout example “example” width:398 height:224
(
timer theTicker interval:15 active:true
dotNetControl dnControl “System.Windows.Forms.Control”
local dnKeyboard = DotNetClass “System.Windows.Forms.Keys”
Local KeyPressed

on theTicker tick do (
dnControl.focus() –sets focus
)

on dnControl KeyDown senderArg keyPressEventArgs do
(
	KeyPressed = keyPressEventArgs.keyCode
	keyPressEventArgs.SuppressKeyPress = true
	print KeyPressed
)

on dnKeys KeyUp senderArg keyPressEventArgs do
(
	KeyPressed = undefined
)

)
createDialog example

I hope these solutions can help someone else at least and If anyone has a better solution to my problem please write it below^^
//Christoffer