Newbie Question

[nvc944]

Hi guys I'm a new student to VB, I am using VB 6 and love it. but I am fairly new and I need some help. ok I want to create a program that when a command button it pressed it automaticatly puts text into a text box.. (like predefined text)

for example

(command 1) when pressed will say hello in a text box (so that I can manipulate the text after in the text box.. so not a pop up. maybe a label not quick sure what term. thanks and love this site.

[Deadalus]

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Text1.Text = "Hello"
End Sub

[Muddy]

start a new project and drop a textbox control and a command button control on the form. Double click command button and make the code look like this:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Text1.Text = "Hello World"
End Sub

[nvc944]

that worked great thanks.. I have another question..
I now have a text box and I want to have the text that I type in that text box to goto my main text2.

for for example.

( hello this is user 1 ) [Command1] if I type something in that text field I would like it to go to


[text field2]
User: hello this is user one

So I hope this makes sense.. so pretty much I have a text box I type anything in that box and press a command button that takes the value from my text1 and places it in text2 with a quick comment.

[killerSD]

This places the contents of text1 into text2.

Private Sub Command1_Click()
text2.text = text1.text
End Sub

I suggest getting a book or searching google for Visual Basic tutorials. They seem to answer alot of "simple" questions.

[nvc944]

I did get a VB book "well my brother left it here for me but it's not for beginners.." one last simple question what is the clear command.

to clear a text box? when a command button is pressed?

[killerSD]

Well you could just use this

Private Sub Command1_Click()
text2.text = " "
End Sub

Im not really sure how effective this is... i have never really had to clear a textbox! So i hope that this helps

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if you want to clear all text boxes on a form:

Private Sub ClearAll()
Dim ctrl as Control
For each ctrl in me.controls
 if typename(ctrl) = "TextBox" then
   ctrl.text = ""
endif
next ctrl
End Sub

I found this on experts-exchange forum thought it might be useful

[nvc944]

I can now place text into text box2 however if I want to copy more than 1 word like a paragraph.. so command1

text1.text = " hello" works but what if I want to diplay a paragraph?

[nvc944]

I'm having a difficult time with one thing. I can now send stuff to text2.. but I want to put a line break and send other stuff to text 2 (and not over right what command did..

so command 1 writes code to text2 I want command 2 to right code bellow text 2.. ect..

[Deadalus]

A small correction to the clearing code: be sure to use "" and not " ", which will put a space in the textbox.

As to the new question, you can do something like this:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    'If there is content in the box, add a line break
    If Text2.Text <> "" Then
        Text2.Text = Text2.Text & vbCrLf
    End If
    'Add text. Instead of the context of Text1
    'you can use literal text or a string variable
    Text2.Text = Text2.Text & Text1.Text
End Sub

Don't forget to set the Multiline property of your textbox to True.

[LITHIA]

DOH! I came too late, i wanted to answer those questions, cus its somet i actually know! unlike everything else...

nvc, take their advise, its all right

ask me somet pls aswell if u got time in a pm! I wana help somone... although probably the question u ask i wont know.... worth a try haha!

[nvc944]

Well my question is..
I'm having a difficult time with one thing. I can now send stuff to text2.. but I want to put a line break and send other stuff to text 2 (and not over right what command did..

Example:
command 1 (when pressed) writes code to text2
I want command 2 to right code bellow text 2.. ect..
because what is happening I have 2 commmand buttons, and they both once pressed fill out text2. the problem is they over write the text, I would like it to not over right the next use the next line. is there a line break I can put after? thanks..

[Cander]

If you want to add new text to a text box:

text2.text = text2.text & "The new text"



this takes the previous text of text2 and adds The new text to it.

To put in a new line use vbCrLf

text2.text = text2.text & "blah" & vbCrLf

Think of & as a plus sign for text.

so if you wanted to add 1 + 1 into a textbox you would say


text2.text = 1 + 1

but you use & for text adding the text together

text2.text = " Hello " & "world"

text2.text will of course say Hello world.

[scr0p]

You can also clear like this:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Text1.Text = Chr(0)
End Sub

Makes no diff, and about the text1.text = " ", remember space is still a charecter, so do "" like the above post says.

[nvc944]

quick question I want to disply a webpage within my VB do I use a label?

for example I want it to display withing a box..

so www.lycos.com (entered in textbox1)
and would like it to
display withing another text box or label on the form?

[nvc944]

How do you call a form, for example I want to be able to open up another form2. how do I do it? thank you.

[jayakumar]

hi,

write this code in command1_click event

form2.show