How to disable key navigation in a ListBox but keep detect the key press events?

Question

I'm trying to disable the key navigation in a ListBox. I can do it successfully with this code below :

private void listClips_PreviewKeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
    e.Handled = true;
}

but I wanna add a keyboard shortcut for my program. It's not working when I set e.Handled = true.

private void listClips_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
    MessageBox.Show("Key Pressed " + e.Key);
}

How can I keep both of them functional?

What you want is the solution from this Thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1918642/equivalent-to-a-keypreview-property-in-wpf — Ioan Moldovan, May 29 '18 at 13:46
Thanks but i couldn't make it work. It's keeping navigate on listbox — sword1st, May 29 '18 at 13:53

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 29 '18 at 14:27

Can't you move your logic to the PreviewKeyDown handler?

private void listClips_PreviewKeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
    //custom logic...
    MessageBox.Show("Key Pressed " + e.Key);

    e.Handled = true;
}

Handle any shortcuts you want and always set the Handled property to true afterwards.

How to disable key navigation in a ListBox but keep detect the key press events?

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