VB 6.0 - Text Box doesn't like "Enter"
Asked By Joe Lewis
03-Feb-12 07:05 PM
I have a text box on one form, and I copied that text box to another form, and did that an additional 3 times. So I now have four text boxes on that other form. The text box on the first form works fine, and I can type in a value and hit <Enter>, and everything is great. But with the four new text boxes on the 2nd form, I can type in numbers and hit Tab, to move focus somewhere else. And everything is fine. But if I hit <Enter> after typing the values in the box, the whole program freezes, the cursor disappears, and within a few seconds the hourglass appears. And the only solution is to shut down the program at that point. I guess I may be "reading" the value of the text boxes a bit differently between the two forms (I need to check on that). I had trouble with my new text boxes when I just put a VariableName = TextBoxName.Text command within the textbox click (or change) procedure. So I ended up only assigning the variables (from the text box values) in a separate command button procedure. Could that have something to do with why hitting <Enter> throws everything into chaos? BTW, I checked ALL the properties of the four new text boxes against the original counterpart in the first form. They are all the same! Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Danasegarane Arunachalam replied to Joe Lewis
Do you have any code in the keydown event of the form . Normally setting the Keypreview=true and pressing the enter button cause the keydown or keypress event of the form/textbox. You say you copied the fourth textbox from the previous form. Did you check the Textbox4 keypress event for any coding ?
Joe Lewis replied to Danasegarane Arunachalam
Actually, I copied all four text boxes from the original (on another form). But none of my text boxes have much code at all. And no "keydown event" code for sure. The only code for my four new boxes shows up in the Click event of a command button on the same form. And that just assigns 4 variables the corresponding values in the four text boxes. But again, during runtime, I can type in the values and hit tab or something else, and everything works fine. But I cannot hit <Enter> in any of the four boxes (after typing the value), or the hourglass comes up and I have to shutdown VB. Thank you for your response.
Amit Choudhary replied to Joe Lewis
See if you have defined any button for process on property "Accept Button"
System will automatically click that button on Enter of any control on form.
It might be possible that VB is calling that procedure.
Anoop S replied to Joe Lewis
can you upload your code?
or
do one thing, use Step Into option in vb (when you press F8, Visual Basic run your code, goes to the very first statement ,which is indicated by the arrow and the highlighting and then stops and waits for more instructions. ) , press f8 key, using this you can analyze your program line by line and so that you can find which line causing freezing problem
Reena Jain replied to Joe Lewis
Hi,
Handle the keyascii for each text box.
In each textbox control put below code in the Keypress event
If KeyAscii=13 Then
sendkeys "{tab}"
End If
it is works for me
Joe Lewis replied to Reena Jain
Thanks Reena. So this should effectively make the "enter" key (for that text box) behave just like the Tab key (which I already know works), right? If that works, that will be very simple obviously. I will try it.
Joe Lewis replied to Amit Choudhary
That sounds interesting, but I cannot find any property (on the form or the controls) called "Accept Button". Where do I look for this? Thank you.
Joe Lewis replied to Anoop S
Thanks! But once I am into Debug Mode, how do I duplicate the hitting of the Enter key? I can't see how this could work.
Joe Lewis replied to Reena Jain
Okay, I tried your advice, and it didn't work. However, I learned more stuff. When I hit Enter in any of those 4 text boxes, the cursor essentially disappears. But, it is still visible on the desktop or exterior icons of Windows. But when I try to move the cursor back onto my program windows/forms, it goes behind them (i.e. becomes invisible). The only option is still just to shut down the VB program. I just thought that is another important clue I should throw out there. Thanks again.
Joe Lewis replied to Joe Lewis
Okay, I decided to just delete the four little text boxes, and create them from scratch, with the same names. Well, I can't believe it, but I'm having the same problem! Even with brand new text boxes that I created in the form with the toolbox (as opposed to copying other text boxes from another form!). But one more piece of information. When I type a value (like 1201, etc) into the text box and hit "Enter", the caret doesn't disappear, and I can move it around, but I cannot pick anything. And as I said before, the cursor is only visible when it is outside the boundary of any VB windows. So I've got this caret (I-beam) that I can move around, but it is useless. I can't type anything else anywhere! And all of this happens only because I hit "Enter" in a text box! If I hit Tab, or simply click into another text box, everything works fine! Please help. This is worse than I thought. Thank you.
Anoop S replied to Joe Lewis
can you upload your program here, just zip the file and use upload manager( 1st option in menu)
Anoop S replied to Joe Lewis
are you using any validation on enter key? if its there remove that and check, You will need to post the relevent code/attach the project before anyone can guess what happens in your code
Somesh Yadav replied to Joe Lewis
HI , your problem will be solved by doing the below one,
Handle the keyascii for each text box.
In each textbox control put below code in the Keypress event
If KeyAscii=13 Then
SendKeys"{tab}"
End If
It is working for me
I
Somesh Yadav replied to Somesh Yadav
HI , your problem will be solved by doing the below one,
Handle the keyascii for each text box.
In each textbox control put below code in the Keypress event
If KeyAscii=13 Then
SendKeys"{tab}"
End If
It is working for me
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