Is there a way to get the caret placed at the end of the text in a textbox
when it recieves focus. What I want to do is trap a certain key and insert a
charachter to a textbox and focus it. But the caret appears at the beginning
of the string. Not quite what I was looking for.

Advice?

<P>

this.TextBox1.SelectionStart = this.TextBox1.Text.Length;

Should do it for you.

If you want to insert a character at the position of the caret this should
work:

int pos = TextBox1.SelectionStart;
TextBox1.Text = tBox.Text.Insert( pos, myChar );
TextBox1.SelectionStart = pos + 1;

/ Peter

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"P" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Is there a way to get the caret placed at the end of the text in a textbox
> when it recieves focus. What I want to do is trap a certain key and insert
a
> charachter to a textbox and focus it. But the caret appears at the
beginning
> of the string. Not quite what I was looking for.
>
> Advice?
>
> <P>
>
>

You can place the carret wherever you want. To place it at the end use: this.textBox1.SelectionStart=this.textBox1.Text.Length; (you could write the following code in OnFocus event)

Hi,
try...
txtMyText.Focus
txtMyTest.SelectionStart = txtMyTest.TextLength

HTH

Pete

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Pete Vickers
Microsoft Windows Embedded MVP
HP Business Partner
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"P" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Is there a way to get the caret placed at the end of the text in a textbox
> when it recieves focus. What I want to do is trap a certain key and insert
a
> charachter to a textbox and focus it. But the caret appears at the
beginning
> of the string. Not quite what I was looking for.
>
> Advice?
>
> <P>
>
>