Position of Cursor in Textbox

[Gene Hubert]

For a string that is being edited in a textbox, is there a way to find
the position of the edit cursor in the string being edited? For
example, it would be 0 or 1 at the beginning of a string and go up by
one each time the right arrow key was pressed.

Thanks Much,
Gene in NC

 

[Kirk]

The SelectionStart property of the textbox should give you the position of
the cursor. You should also check the SelectionLength property as this will
tell you if the use has selected an area of the text and not just placed the
cursor in the textbox.

Kirk

TextBox1.SelectionStart

 

[Josh Moody [MSFT]]

Hey Gene -

This little snippit should help:

Private Sub TextBox1_KeyUp(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.KeyUp
Debug.WriteLine(TextBox1.SelectionStart())
End Sub


Josh Moody
VSU Team

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