Solution: Stop validating if Cancel button Clicked

[JB]

OK, this was my setup/problem. I had a form with initially 1 textbox
and a cancel button enabled. If I entered any text into the text box
and then clicked on the cancel button or hit tab the validation event
would fire. If a user entered tab I wanted to go ahead and
validate...if they clicked on Cancel, no matter what they had already
entered into the textbox, I wanted to Cancel and close.

My solution:

I added another button to my form and made it size 0,0 and made sure
the tab order was set with this basically hidden control to come
before the cancel button.

I then in my validating code (which was handling multiple textbox
validations) added the following two checks:

1) I then checked Me.ActiveControl.Name to see if it was equal to
btnCancel. If it was then I just put focus on the cancel button and
exited the sub. (This is because this was the only control outside of
the sort of hidden control that the user could have clicked on).

2) If current textbox was empty I assumed user wanted to cancel and
just placed focus on the cancel button and exited the sub

Without having the extra hidden control to catch the tab the
Me.ActiveControl.Name would always be equal to btnCancel and
validation would never occur!

If someone has a better approach (without excluding the validating
event) please let me know...this was driving me crazy.

The only thing I settled on and did NOT resolve was when a user was
first on the first textbox if they did not enter anything and then
they hit the escape key it would close the form...but if they had
entered any text into the textbox then tried to hit escape validation
would occur.

JB

 

[Jared]

In the Textbox's validating event perform your validation, if it passes
great, if it fails close the form. Set the buttons CausesValidation property
to false and use its click event to close the form.

A text box and a button.

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Me.Close()
End Sub
Private Sub TextBox1_Validating(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.Validating
'Perform your validation checks here
If Me.TextBox1.Text.TrimEnd.Length = 0 Then
Me.Close()
End If
End Sub
Private Sub TextBox1_LostFocus(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles TextBox1.LostFocus
TextBox1_Validating(TextBox1, New System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs)
End Sub

 

[mdb]

(e-mail address removed) (JB) wrote in

If someone has a better approach (without excluding the validating
event) please let me know...this was driving me crazy.

Have you looked at the 'CausesValidation' property? I've never tried it
myself, but the help description seems to indicate that you just need to
set it to false on the Cancel button, leaving everything else alone.

-mdb

 

[JB]

Jared,

I think you missed the point. If the user has entered
something/anything and then hits cancel running the validation event
by design will popup a message telling them what the error/problem
is...but I didn't want that if they did indeed hit the cancel button
then I just needed to cancel and if validation failed when a user was
really trying to get it right it would be rude to close the form.

JB

 

[JB]

I did mess around a bit with the causesvalidation property and this
and/or e.cancel = true can be valid methods to control the whole
validation thing but in this case because the only other button was
cancel (by default the next textbox was disabled until textbox1 had
been validated) then having the cancel button cancel validation would
cause the validation to never occur! That's what was driving me crazy
and why I came up with this work around.

Thanks.

JB

 

[Jared]

JB,
In the English language I know this is considered rude, very rude --> "I
think you missed the point."
You need to remain courteous when asking for assistance, or get clever when
you write down your comments! ;-)

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My Reply to the post
First of all, I'm not writing your program for you, the example I presented,
albeit does not perform the desired results, does demonstrate the methods in
which you can achieve your results. Secondly, I don't know if you have
noticed, but, the event handler has an argument called sender, this
represents the object that raised the event, an object like a textbox, that
includes a name attribute. With this knowledge you no longer have to provide
a "workaround" with extra controls sucking up memory space. So, in this case
you have no reason to use Me.ActiveControl.Name! I have a simple form with
three textboxes and one button. Each of the Validation handlers is attached
to the same routine, when it fires it converts the object to a generic
control and gets the name. Use it in a select statement, use the gettype or
typeof to perform specific validation on your controls.

Private Sub MyTextboxes_Are_Validating(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) _
Handles TextBox1.Validating, TextBox2.Validating, TextBox3.Validating
Console.WriteLine("The control that is currently validating is: {0}",
CType(sender, Control).Name)
End Sub


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