Overriding OnKeyPress for a Inherited Textbox

Hi all,

I've been having some trouble trying to pick up key presses in a text box. I want to detect "Cursor up" and "Cursor down", AKA Keys.Up and Keys.Down.

I've created a class, CommandTextBox, that inherits textbox, and overrides Sub OnKeyPress to try and get around this problem.

The reason I'm doing this is that I wish to replicate Command Prompt funcionality. When the cursor up key is pressed, I want the text box to scroll through previously 'entered' entries, and down to scroll back down the list.

I've got it set up so that I've got a multiline textbox txtWindow, that all data entry is copied to on hitting enter. My "CommandTextBox" is a single line textbox that on hitting Enter sends the data across, before setting its own value to "".

The inherited class:

Public MustInherit Class CommandTextBox

    Inherits TextBox


    Public MustOverride Function EnterFunction()

    Public MustOverride Function UpFunction()


    Public MustOverride Function DownFunction()





    Protected Overrides Sub OnKeyPress(ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs)
        Select Case Asc(e.KeyChar)

            Case Keys.Enter
                EnterFunction()
                e.Handled = True

            Case Keys.Up
                UpFunction()
                e.Handled = True

            Case Keys.Down
                DownFunction()
                e.Handled = True

        End Select

        MyBase.OnKeyPress(e)

    End Sub

    Public Sub New()

    End Sub
End Class


The idea was that, as I will need to refer to a specifici instance of a normal text box (txtWindow) and I can't refer to an instance from a class definition, I'd have overrideable functions that I could add the specific details to. But that's getting OO mixed up, isn't it? Override applies to sub-classes I create using this class, rather than being able to define the functions when I create an instance?

Urgh...

Any help appreciated.