Another Question Matthew Gates

Thanks for the code, thats exactly what I was looking for, but I need something also. Heres my problem.

I wanna make a visual keyboard program. and im gonna make little buttons and basicaly do the code you gave me. But I can make it sorta like if I press a button (EXAMPLE)

called A and i made it out put A and then I had a Button B (same thing). How do you make it so that it adds it to what i already have. So its not A then B, but AB?

Hope I didn't confuse u, and any other cool helpin' nerds are welcome to help me!

I'm not sure I exactly understand.

You want to line them like:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

And the code used for it would be:

Code:

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Combo1.text = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"

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or like this:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z


And the code would be something like:

Code:

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combo1.additem "A"
combo1.additem "B"
combo1.additem "C"
combo1.additem "D"
combo1.additem "E"
combo1.additem "F"
combo1.additem "G"
combo1.additem "H"
combo1.additem "I"
combo1.additem "J"
combo1.additem "K"
combo1.additem "L"
combo1.additem "M"
combo1.additem "N"
combo1.additem "O"
combo1.additem "P"
combo1.additem "Q"
combo1.additem "R"
combo1.additem "S"
combo1.additem "T"
combo1.additem "U"
combo1.additem "V"
combo1.additem "W"
combo1.additem "X"
combo1.additem "Y"
combo1.additem "Z"

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That what your trying to do?

Ok Im making a program that is just a picture of a keyboard with all the little ABCD keys. And Im going to make Command Buttons with captions A, B, ect... And The Im Going to have a Test Area. And with your code If I were to press the A button I am going to program is to make A (like a working keyboard). But heres my problem, when I go to press B the text box erases the A and puts in the B, now I wan't it so instead of erasing the A is keeps it there so the end product would be: AB.

I hope you understand now! Thanks 4 ur help

Try:

Code:

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'Text1.text = "A"
Text1.text = Text1.text + "B"
'Results:  Text1.text = "AB"

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Matthew:
Its always better to use the & Operator.

Code:

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    Text1.Text = Text1.Text & "B"

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if you want the return value to be a Concatenated string Always use &.

Code:

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    MsgBox 1 + 2 ' returns 3 as an integer
    MsgBox 1 & 2 ' returns 12 as a string

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I would suggest the following: Have a control array of 26 command buttons, each representing a letter. Call them cmdLetter, with their Index properties set from 0 to 25 (so cmdLetter(0) is "A", cmdLetter(2) is "B", ... cmdLetter(25) is "Z"). Assume the Caption properties for each of these is set to that letter ("A", "B", "C", etc.)

Your code for the cmdLetter_Click event would look like this (using concatenation as Matthew and Dennis suggest, with the & operator preferred as Dennis mentioned):

Code:

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Private Sub cmdLetter_Click(Index As Integer)
    Text1.Text = Text1.Text & cmdLetter(Index).Caption
End Sub

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You may also want to have a clear button (say "cmdClear") and a Backspace button so you can simulate deleting text ("cmdBackspace").

Code:

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Private Sub cmdClear_Click()
    Text1.Text = ""
End Sub

Private Sub cmdBackspace_Click()
    Dim intLength As Integer
    intLength = Len(Text1.Text)
    If intLength > 0 Then
        Text1.Text = Left$(Text1.Text, intLength - 1)
    End If
End Sub

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