Allow only delete in textbox - Xtreme Visual Basic Talk

08-03-2004, 01:54 PM

oralb5

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Join Date: Jun 2004

Posts: 82

Allow only delete in textbox

I have some textboxes which I made read-only, however can be populated using the calendar control. The point is that i don't want the end users to type in the wrong date by accident but rather use the calendar control.

While I was looking at it, I wondered if a user wanted to delete what he entered, could he since it is read-only?

Any ideas?

08-03-2004, 07:37 PM

bear24rw

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Join Date: May 2004

Location: NJ

Posts: 477

do you want to clear the whole textbox?

if thats so then you could, under the textboxs Key down event, check if the user clicked the delete key

Code:

Private Sub txtName_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles txtName.KeyDown
        If e.KeyCode = Keys.Delete Then
            txtbox.Text = Nothing
        End If
    End Sub

Is that what you mean, or do you have multipul dates in one textbox and you only want to delete the last one entered?

Edit: hmmm... it doesnt seemt o work with the delete key but it works with others, can anyone explain this?

Edit: oh, delete is for the DEL key not the backspace anyways just change it to 'back' instead

Last edited by bear24rw; 08-03-2004 at 07:43 PM.

08-04-2004, 10:21 AM

oralb5

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Join Date: Jun 2004

Posts: 82

This is exactly what I was asking about. Thanks.