text boxes

[Steve]

Hi all i am writing a small program and what i need to do is have some code
that will do the following:

When i press a key within a text box it will type that letter/number in
and then move to the next text box in the tab order.

any help appreciated

steve

[WhiteRavenEye]

Steve wrote:

Hi all i am writing a small program and what i need to do is have some code
that will do the following:

When i press a key within a text box it will type that letter/number in
and then move to the next text box in the tab order.

any help appreciated

steve

Use KeyPress evet on textbox...

By WhiteRavenEye

[Jeff Bennett]

As per WhiteRavenEye,
trap the KeyPress event.
What he didn't say is that in this event you should call the SetFocus
method of the next textbox you want to move to.

The easiest way is to have all the textboxes in a nice array.
This way you can use the index parameter to keep track of which
textbox you are in and want to move to

For example

Sub TextBox_KeyPress(Index As Integer, KeyAscii As Integer)
' Assume you have textboxes from TextBox(0) to TextBox(30)
If Index < 30 Then
' set focus to next textbox
TextBox(Index + 1).SetFocus
Else
' set focus back to first textbox
' - or take other action if desired
TextBox(0).SetFocus
End If
End Sub
I hope this is helpful to you.
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Steve wrote:

Hi all i am writing a small program and
what i need to do is have some code
that will do the following:
When i press a key within a text box it
will type that letter/number in
and then move to the next text box in the tab order.
WhiteRavenEye wrote

Use KeyPress evet on textbox...

By WhiteRavenEye

[Rick Rothstein]

> What he didn't say is that in this event you should call the SetFocus

method of the next textbox you want to move to.

The easiest way is to have all the textboxes in a nice array.
This way you can use the index parameter to keep track of which
textbox you are in and want to move to

For example

Sub TextBox_KeyPress(Index As Integer, KeyAscii As Integer)
' Assume you have textboxes from TextBox(0) to TextBox(30)

If you make this change to the If statement, then you won't have to know the
number of TextBox'es in advance.

Sub TextBox_KeyPress(Index As Integer, KeyAscii As Integer)
If Index < TextBox.UBound Then
' set focus to next textbox
TextBox(Index + 1).SetFocus
Else
' set focus back to first textbox
' - or take other action if desired
TextBox(0).SetFocus
End If
End Sub

Rick - MVP