overrides help please

[Merlin]

I have created a users control with a text box and button on it, what I want
to do is override the usercontrol Keydown events with that of the Text box.
What is the correct syntax to accomplish this?

Example of my text box sub:-
Private Sub Edit_KeyDown(By Val sender As Object, ByVal e As
System.Windows. Forms.KeyEventA rgs) Handles Edit.KeyDown
End Sub

Thanks

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Hello,

"Merlin" <je**@jg-tech.co.uk> schrieb:

I have created a users control with a text box and button on it,
what I want to do is override the usercontrol Keydown events
with that of the Text box. What is the correct syntax to accomplish
this?

What behavior would you expect?

Regards,
Herfried K. Wagner
--
MVP · VB Classic, VB .NET
http://www.mvps.org/dotnet

[Armin Zingler]

"Merlin" <je**@jg-tech.co.uk> schrieb

I have created a users control with a text box and button on it, what
I want to do is override the usercontrol Keydown events with that of
the Text box.
???
Sorry, I don't get your intention.

What is the correct syntax to accomplish this?

Example of my text box sub:-
Private Sub Edit_KeyDown(By Val sender As Object, ByVal e As
System.Windows. Forms.KeyEventA rgs) Handles Edit.KeyDown
End Sub

--
Armin

[Merlin]

Sorry, I'll try to make myself clearer:-

What I want to be able to do is place my UserControl on a form and then in
the UserControl KeyDown Event trap key presses from my text box that is
within the UserControl. So in otherwords override the UserControl KeyDown
Events with the Text box KeyDown Events.

Thanks,
Merlin
"Merlin" <je**@jg-tech.co.uk> wrote in message
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I have created a users control with a text box and button on it, what I want to do is override the usercontrol Keydown events with that of the Text box. What is the correct syntax to accomplish this?

Example of my text box sub:-
Private Sub Edit_KeyDown(By Val sender As Object, ByVal e As
System.Windows. Forms.KeyEventA rgs) Handles Edit.KeyDown
End Sub

Thanks

[Armin Zingler]

"Merlin" <je**@jg-tech.co.uk> schrieb

Sorry, I'll try to make myself clearer:-

What I want to be able to do is place my UserControl on a form and
then in the UserControl KeyDown Event trap key presses from my text
box that is within the UserControl. So in otherwords override the
UserControl KeyDown Events with the Text box KeyDown Events.

Now I think I understand - if you leave out the last sentence. ;-)

You can handle the textbox' keypress event in the Usercontrol:

Private Sub TextBox1_KeyPre ss( _
ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.Windows. Forms.KeyPressE ventArgs) _
Handles TextBox1.KeyPre ss

End Sub

Still I don't think that's what you wanted to know, so...

--
Armin

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Hello,

"Armin Zingler" <az*******@free net.de> schrieb:

Sorry, I'll try to make myself clearer:-

What I want to be able to do is place my UserControl on a form and
then in the UserControl KeyDown Event trap key presses from my text
box that is within the UserControl. So in otherwords override the
UserControl KeyDown Events with the Text box KeyDown Events.

Now I think I understand - if you leave out the last sentence. ;-)

You can handle the textbox' keypress event in the Usercontrol:

Private Sub TextBox1_KeyPre ss( _
ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.Windows. Forms.KeyPressE ventArgs) _
Handles TextBox1.KeyPre ss

End Sub

Still I don't think that's what you wanted to know, so...

I think merlin wants to forward/redirect the keyboard input of the textbox
to the usercontrol. Every time the user presses a key in the textbox, the
usercontrol's KeyPress event should be raised.

Regards,
Herfried K. Wagner
--
MVP · VB Classic, VB .NET
http://www.mvps.org/dotnet

[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Merlin,

If the other responses haven't quite answered your question (I
find it quite ambiguous), can you tell us <why> you want this override
and what you hope to achieve?

Regards,
Fergus

[Merlin]

Sorry, I'll try to make myself clearer:-

What I want to be able to do is place my UserControl on a form and then in
the UserControl KeyDown Event trap key presses from my text box that is
within the UserControl. So in otherwords override the UserControl KeyDown
Events with the Text box KeyDown Events.

Thanks,
Merlin

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Hello,

"Merlin" <je**@jg-tech.co.uk> schrieb:

What I want to be able to do is place my UserControl on a form and then in
the UserControl KeyDown Event trap key presses from my text box that is
within the UserControl. So in otherwords override the UserControl KeyDown
Events with the Text box KeyDown Events.

Untested (!), code for the UserControl:

\\\
Private Sub TextBox1_KeyDow n( _
ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.Windows. Forms.KeyEventA rgs _
) Handles TextBox1.KeyDow n
MyBase.OnKeyDow n(e)
End Sub
///

HTH,
Herfried K. Wagner
--
MVP · VB Classic, VB .NET
http://www.mvps.org/dotnet

[Merlin]

Ok here goes,

I have created a control that has a text box and a button at the end of the
text box, I want my control to totally emulate a text box, but have the
added addition of a button at the end. The idea of this control is to allow
a user to input text in the normal manner or press a button to display a
pick list.

Therefore I want the usercontrol events all overridden with the Text box
events. As it stands If I were to place my user control on a form and trap
the usercontrol keydown event when entering text, I'd only be trapping
events for the user control so get nothing whereas I want to trap the text
box events:-

i.e
instead of UserControl.Tex tBox1.Keydown
I want UserControl.Key down to be exactly the same.

Hope thats clearer.

Thanks

Merlin.

"Fergus Cooney" <fi******@tesco .net> wrote in message
news:uY******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...

Hi Merlin,

Lol. That's the <what>.
Can you tell us the <why> ?
This is the bit that everyone is struggling to understand. It really makes <no sense> to us at all, yet it's the bit that you haven't changed!!

Post 1: override the usercontrol Keydown events with that of the Text box
Post 2: override the UserControl KeyDown Events with the Text box KeyDown
Events
Post 3: override the UserControl KeyDown Events with the Text box KeyDown
Events
Tell us in human terms. - What effect do you want to achieve - for
yourself, for the user?

With curiousity and anticipation,
Fergus.