Fia wrote:
I have tried to send Keys.Numpad8, but
then it complains about it cannot convert from Keys to keyEventArgs I
have also tried to send the number 8, but then it complains it cannot
convert from Integer to keyEventArgs
Can anyone help me, please
The parameters that are passed to the events of control have changed a lot
between VB6 and VB.NET.
In VB6, you would get a list of parameters that changed from one event type
to the next, containing all the relevant information (keycodes, mouse
positions, etc.). In VB.NET, you will always get two objects passed as your
event parameters: sender (which will point to the control that caused the
event to fire) and a second parameter usually called "e" or "eventArgs"
which contains all the relevant data for the event.
The object type of "e" will change from one event to another. An event such
as a button click that doesn't provide any extra information will provide an
object of type "System.EventArgs". The object type passed to a KeyPress
event is of type "System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs".
If you look at this object within your keypress event, you'll see if has all
the information you need to respond to the keypress (specifically the
KeyChar, which tells you which key was pressed, and the Handled property
which if set to True tells VB to ignore the keypress because you've already
dealt with whatever it was supposed to do).
In order to call the Keypress event procedure, you will need to provide both
of these objects (sender and e). For sender, just pass the control that the
user interacted with (or pass Nothing if there's nothing relevant, it's up
to your code to deal with this object however you need, or ignore it totally
if you want). For e, you will need to create a new KeyPressEventArgs object.
The constructor of this object allows you to specify what keycode you want
it to contain.
I created a simple form with a button (Button1) and a textbox (Textbox1).
The textbox displays whatever key you press when it has the focus. The
button calls its KeyPress event and tells it that "A" was pressed.
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Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
Handles Button1.Click
TextBox1_KeyPress(Button1, New
System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs("A"c))
End Sub
Private Sub TextBox1_KeyPress(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) _
Handles TextBox1.KeyPress
Me.TextBox1.Text = "Key: " & e.KeyChar
e.Handled = True
End Sub
///
As you can see, clicking the button makes the textbox think that "A" was
pressed. (The letter "c" after the "A" in the Button1_Click procedure tells
VB that "A" is a character, not a string, as the KeyPressEventArgs procedure
excepts a single character to be provided).
However, having said all of that, my recommendation would be that you change
your code so that you don't need to do this.
It's much better IMO to create a separate function to handle the pressed
key, and call it from both the KeyPress and the Click events. This was you
know that if the KeyPress event fires it is always because a key was
pressed. It can make the code much easier to read and maintain in the
future, particularly if someone else is likely to work on the same code.
Hope that helps,
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(O) e n o n e
