How do I check for the Enter key in a textbox?

[RealNickyDude]

[Pirate]

you mean if it's pressed in the textbox ??

[RealNickyDude]

yeah, it's basically a follow on from the all of the sudden... thread, you type something into a textbox, press return and I want to capture that so I can do something.

[Pirate]

you seem so busy
if that what you mean then check this :

Private Sub TextBox1_KeyPress(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As _
    System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.KeyPress
 
   If Asc(e.KeyChar()) = 13 Then
     MsgBox("You Pressed Enter Key")
  ' put your code here 
   End If
 End Sub

[Pirate]

two posts at the same time

[RealNickyDude]

I get a blue squiggle under e.KeyChar and it tells me that 'KeyChar' is not a member of 'System.EventArgs'. Does something need declaring?

[Pirate]

that code should go under the KeyPress EVENT .

[RealNickyDude]

Yeah, your right. When I double-clicked on the textbox to get the code, it gave me this:

Private Sub txtUserInput_TextChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles txtUserInput.TextChanged
 
    End Sub

and I assumed that would be ok. But what do I know, pah

[Pirate]

in the code editor click the first code on the top left "Class Name" scroll down and select your textbox then on the right combobox scroll down to KeyPress event , click it , write your code there .Done !

[RealNickyDude]

THANK YOU!!!! I wondered how to change the arguments of various controls and it never occured to me to change the class name from the top left pull down, doh!!

[Pirate]

[RealNickyDude]

...and I call myself a VB programmer!