Test box questions

[Guest]

1. I want to set up a text box so that when the user presses the space bar a
dot character appears in the text box. (Yes, I know it's not an original
idea.) What is the easiest way of accessing and filtering the input from the
keyboard to achieve this?

2. In many editor programmes you can use the Insert key to switch between
Insert and Overwrite modes of text entry, but my text boxes don't seem to
recognise this key. Is there some parameter I need to set in a text box so
that it will switch from Insert to Overwrite?

Grateful for any help.

 

[Larry Serflaten]

1. I want to set up a text box so that when the user presses the space bar a
dot character appears in the text box. (Yes, I know it's not an original
idea.) What is the easiest way of accessing and filtering the input from the
keyboard to achieve this?

Watch each key in the Keydown event and change them as needed.

If e.KeyCode = 32 Then
e.Handled = True
RichTextBox1.SelectedText = "."
End If

2. In many editor programmes you can use the Insert key to switch between
Insert and Overwrite modes of text entry, but my text boxes don't seem to
recognise this key. Is there some parameter I need to set in a text box so
that it will switch from Insert to Overwrite?

A RichTextBox handles this automatically....

LFS

 

[Guest]

Thank you for the e.keycode routine. But this seems to put a space character
as well as a dot into the textbox.

Do you have to clear some sort of keyboard buffer as well?