I can't seem to get input focus on a textbox when a tab page first comes up (I'm using Windows Forms, VB.NET 3.5). I have a textbox on a panel on a tab page, and I want the focus to be on the textbox when the tab page comes up. I want the user to be able to start typing immediately in the focused textbox without having to click on the textbox. I have tab stops set in the order I want and the textbox is the first tab stop. The tab stops work except that when the tab page comes up the focus is not on the textbox, i.e. the one that's first in the tab order.
In the Enter event handler of the tab page I call the Focus method of the text box, but it returns False and does nothing, no error messages. I know I can access the text box because at the same point in the code I can set the text of the text box.If it matters, the layout of the tab page is a little complicated:[URL]..I want to set the focus on TextBox1.
What's the best way to get the focus on the desired textbox? If setting focus is the best way, why is the textbox.Focus() method failing?
I have a main form that contains a vertical SplitContainer.Inside the SplitContainer's left panel, I have a TreeView control.Inside the SplitContainer's right panel, I have another SplitContainer (this one horizontal). This container is fixed, with headings above the split and a Panel control below it.I dynamically load my own user controls into the Panel control whenever the tree view changes.
Most of the user controls that are dynamically loaded have a DataGridView that should receive focus when the control is initialized. Sometimes this grid is on the UserControl surface directly; sometimes it's in a GroupBox; etc.What is the best way to programmatically set focus on the DataGridView control, given that it may placed within a variable number of control containers? I've tried the obvious - .Select, .Focus, .ActiveControl, etc. None of these seem to work - the TreeView item that I selected is still highlighted, and even though a record is selected in the DataGridView, it doesn't have focus.
Here's the code where I add the user control within the main form:
Private Sub LoadRightPanel(ByVal section As String, ByVal moduleName As String) Heading.Text = String.Empty SuspendLayout() RightPanel.Controls.Clear()
I have created an app which has a timer control which, when activated and meets a certain criteria, launches a second form with an alert for the user to review and action. this works just fine. Except.... when the main app is minimised and has lost focus, instead of launching the second form to a normal windows state it opens and sits in a minimized state itself and just flashes. How can I get the the second form to restore to a normal windows state?I have tried form2.focus and tried the windowsstate=normal etc but I'm still barking up the wrong tree.
I've got a Child form being shown with it's TopLevel property set to False and I am unable to click a MaskedTextBox control that it contains (in order to bring focus to it). I can bring focus to it by using TAB on the keyboard though.
The child form contains other regular TextBox controls and these I can click to focus with no problems, although they also exhibit some odd behavior: for example if I've got a value in the Textbox and I try to drag-click from the end of the string to the beginning, nothing happens. In fact I can't use my mouse to move the cursor inside the TextBox's text at all (although they keyboard arrow keys work).I'm not too worried about the odd TextBox behavior, but why can't I activate my MaskedTextBox by clicking on it?
Below is the code that shows the form:
Dim newReportForm As New Form Dim formName As String Dim FullTypeName As String Dim FormInstanceType As Type
Is there a more efficient/easier way changing the backcolor of a control when it has focus and lost focus? Let's say I've got 10 text boxes. Right now I would have 20 different events...10 for Enter event and 10 for Leave event. Of course, entering would change the back color to "green" and leaving would change it back to "white".
I have a panel with some controls in it (several textboxes, a slider, 2 buttons, and a small groupbox).. When I click a button, I want all of the textboxes within the panel to be readonly... So I have this code: [code] When I run it though, I get the following error:Unable to cast object of type 'System.Windows.Forms.Button' to type 'System.Windows.Forms.TextBox'.If I remove a button, it moves on to give me the same error but for a label..
I have two forms in an application. One is he background and then I show another keypad form called with the show() method (not showDialog) because I need to perform some validations on btn click.
The kepad has 10 buttons and an Enter Button. The problem is that the form keeps loosing focus (I checked this with a messagebox which keeps poping up once for focus=true and again for focus=false, it continuously keeps losing and gaining focus) so it does not process any keypress events untill i click somewhere on the form. I tried using me.focus() in form load event but to no avail. The forms TopMost property is also set to true.
I am trying to add a line of text to a TextBox component in VB.net, but I cannot figure out for the life of me how to force a new line. Right now it just adds onto what I have already, and that is not good.I have tried copying the actual linebreaks, didn't work. I tried AppendText(), didn't work.
How do I make a connection between a button and textbox when using windows form applications. In other words, if a button is clicked on, how do I assign it to read that certain textbox where the information was entered?
I am creating a program that shows two random numbers on two separate labels then I have to add / subtract them and the answer should be entered in a textbox
How can I add or subtract the numbers and enter the answer on a textbox?
I am creating it in Visual Basic Windows Forms Application
I've got a Windows Forms with some Textbox's and I'm trying to make a one of them which can automaticly (or if you press Enter) change letter D to today's date, to make user life easier.
I'm using the following code to validate the text entered by user. It works perfectly fine. But I want to add the backspace feature so as to allow the user to delete the wrongly entered number.I have tried a couple of things and they worked but before last digit (after the decimal point) i.e. it does not allows to delete after the number has been completely entered.number is being entered in the format: 12313213.45
What shall I do?Private Sub TextBox5_KeyPress(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) Handles TextBox5.KeyPress
I am new to Win Forms, I have a scenario here..When User enter ID in a textbox, I want to check that value in database and get the name for that ID before submitting the Submit Button.
I have written a little helper app that mostly does various text operations on a paragraph of text. I am able to select a block of text from the Code Window and drop it onto my VB.NET apps TextBox and complete the text operation. However I am unable to drag and drop the altered text back to the VB Code window Via the DoDragDrop method.
If e.Button = MouseButtons.Left Then Dim d As New DataObject d.SetText(Me.TextBox3.Text) Me.TextBox3.DoDragDrop(d, DragDropEffects.Move) End If
ERROR:Error'Value' is not a member of 'System.Windows.Forms.TextBox'.
My Code:
Private Sub TextBox2_TextChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TextBox2.TextChanged If TextBox3.Value > TextBox2.Value Then
OK, so my project is like this:The user selects a folder from their computer that holds a list of subfolders. The program then dynamically inserts a check boxes per subfolder within a seperate cell of a Table Layout Panel.I want to and a simple Click event to each checkbox control so that when a control is clicked, it counts all of the check boxes on the form that are checked.How do I go about adding the event handler to the checkboxes when they are created. Here is the code that adds the checkboxes:
Dim iCol As Integer = 1 Dim objFolder As Object = Nothing For j = 0 To rCount - 1 '0 to dynamic number of rows
I'm trying to count characters in a textbox, which includes newline characters and tabs. How do we know if the textbox contains only newline characters? ie or if the user types in one or more characters, then a bunch of "newline" characters (CR followed by LF) and then goes back and deletes the original one or more characters leaving only the leading "newline" characters. I don't want to count the characters in textbox only if new line exists..
If String.IsNullOrEmpty(TextBox1.Text) Then Label5.Text = 0 Else
I'm an absolute newb to vb (less than a week) and I'm trying to convert a console app to a windows form.In the console app, I have this code
Public Sub rconPacketReceive(ByVal fromserver As Boolean, ByVal isresponse As Boolean, ByVal seq As Integer, ByVal words() As String) Handles rconObj.packetIncoming Dim w As String = Nothing For Each word In words
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What I want is to have this Console.WriteLine displayed in a text box on the form but don't have any idea on how to do it.
Assuming that I have a Windows Forms textbox and want to reduce the maximum amount of characters that can be allowed in via user entry, how would I do that?
Private Sub BTNC_storeclientdata_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles BTNC_storeclientdata.Click ' Update Clientdata[code].....
This performs an update in the SQL Database via a stored procedure. When I add '; insert into codeinjection(test) values ('CodeInjected!'); select ' in the last textbox (TBC_phone.Text) the value 'codeinjdected' is inserted into the table codeinjection as well. How can I avoid this?
when clicking a button, the current date is inserted into a textbox and the focus is transfered to the textbox.
the problem is that Textbox15.focus() select the text inside the textbox. i wish to give that control the focus but place the cursor at the end of the text, with no selection.
Private Sub Button4_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button4.Click TextBox15.Text = TextBox15.Text & DateTime.Now & " " TextBox15.Focus() End Sub
Is there any way to remove the textbox's focus when mouse is clicked in the textbox? the blinking focus in the textbox is not needed for kiosk system. so i try remove it with
I am trying to use the System.Diagnostics.Process class.I have the following Windows Forms application. It consists of 1 Button and 1 TextBox. The only code is for the button click event as follows.
Public Class Form1 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim myProcess As New Process()
im sure that this is incredibly simple but im very new to this. could someone tell me what Error 2 Operator '<=' is not defined for types 'System.Windows.Forms.TextBox' and 'Integer'. K:programmingchapter 4 labchapter 4 labchapter 4 labForm1.vb 16 24 chapter 4 lab
I'm trying to code a program but this error repeatedly shows up and I can't for the life of me figure it out EValue of type 'String' cannot be converted to 'System.Windows.Forms.TextBox'. It appears in relation to this code
