Enter key in Text Box Tabs to next field

[tgoodmannz]

Hi,

I am having a very strange problem.

I have a text box which the user can type data into. Recently, when the Enter key is pressed, instead of adding a new line in the text box, it Tabs to the next field.

I retried an old version (from SourceSafe) and the Enter key worked fine - yet I can't see any differences to the property of the Text box.

I also have the following event which is called for a normal keypress but not the enter key

Private Sub txtEmail_KeyPress(KeyAscii As MSForms.ReturnInteger)

I have seen several other threads with similar problems - could this be a VB6 problem???

Thanks,
Tim

[Wen Lie]

Do you mean that u need to make the enter key to be functioned as tabs to next object ???

if so, can use keycode events, or keypress :

if you use keycode :

Private Sub txtEmail_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
    Select Case KeyCode
            Case vbKeyReturn
                  'your code goes here
    End Select
End Sub

or if you use keypress :

Private Sub txtEmail_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
    if KeyAscii = 13 Then
           'your code goes here
    End If
End Sub

I only use the code when the textbox is single line. If I need to use it as multiline, I can't use the code above, since I need the return key to make a new line at the textbox.

Is it help ???

___________
Wille

[tgoodmannz]

No, the opposite.

The Enter Key is Tabbing to the next field, when I want a carriage added to the text and focus to stay on the text box.

The Key pressed event is not firing for the enter key (but it does for any other key).

[Wen Lie]

do u mind to post the code here ?

[tgoodmannz]

There's not much Code as such .. this has been taken from the Text box properties ..

      Begin MSForms.TextBox txtEmail 
         Height          =   1215
         Left            =   120
         TabIndex        =   4
         Top             =   840
         Width           =   9015
         VariousPropertyBits=   -1400879077
         ScrollBars      =   2
         Size            =   "15901;2143"
         FontName        =   "@MingLiU"
         FontHeight      =   165
         FontCharSet     =   0
         FontPitchAndFamily=   34
      End

No event is firing when the enter key is pressed! (Except for the key up event on the control that is given focus) ...

[tgoodmannz]

This must be a common enough problem - I've found quite a few references to it by searching (but no obvious solutions)


http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...tBox+Enter+Key

[Wen Lie]

Originally posted by tgoodmannz

No event is firing when the enter key is pressed! (Except for the key up event on the control that is given focus) ...

Yupe... There will be no event fired, if u not set anycode for it.
For multi line textbox object and Keypreview properties of the form is set to false, return key is functioned to make a new line in that multiline textbox object.

If you add the code like the URL u gave us here, it will make the return key set as TABS key.


____________
Wille

[tgoodmannz]

I regret that we are going around in circles somewhat.

Pressing the enter key does not execute code for an EnterKeys event.

What I want: a carriage return to be added to the Text within the text box.

What happens: Another control is given focus.

Please have a look at the reference in the previous post - If I press CTRL+ENTER then a carriage return is written

Cheers,
Tim

[tgoodmannz]

OK - I forgot I was actually using the Forms 2.0 text box.

Once I set the property

 EnterKeyBehaviour = True

it started working ..

However there was still some wierd behaviour - for some reason adding or removing a line did not refresh the displayed text properly - to fix that I added the following code

 
Private Sub txt1_Keyup(KeyCode As MSForms.ReturnInteger, Shift As Integer)
     Select Case KeyCode
            Case vbKeyReturn, vbKeyBack, vbKeyDelete
                txt1.SelLength = 3
                txt1.SelLength = 0
    End Select

End Sub

Enjoy!