Placing a floating list box over a text box [Resolved]

[sbasak]

I'm trying to write a word completion program. For that, I have to place a floating listbox over a text box. The list box should move as the user types in text box.

I can't figure out how to get the current text (where the cursor is) x,y co-ordinates from a textbox.

I know that in VB6 it would have been solved by SendMessage API but I've no idea how to do it in VB.NET.

I tried to call the same API in .NET as well, but unsuccessful

Any help?

thanx

[Pirate]

SndMessage API is still a way to do it , though there is a lengthy way I guess in .NET .Try this demo I've created with API call SendMessage .

[Pirate]

Just to point out , the proj is VB.NET 2003 .

[sbasak]

Thanx, but I tried with SendMessge, problem is it's neither giving error nor doing the thing I want - ie. it can't return the co-ordinate where my cursor is in my text box

[Pirate]

You can use this to get cursor posititon :

Me.Cursor.Position.X()
Me.Cursor.Position.Y()

[Pirate]

aah by the way , put that code in a timer and set its interval to 10ms to get updated very fast .

[sbasak]

Me.Cursor.Position.X() gives position where the mouse pointer is! But I want the position my text cursor blinks in the textbox [perhaps some people say it as caret position].

[sbasak]

Lastly, it worked with senemessage API.

THANKS for help

[Pirate]

Originally posted by sbasak
Me.Cursor.Position.X() gives position where the mouse pointer is! But I want the position my text cursor blinks in the textbox [perhaps some people say it as caret position].

Thought you are trying to retrieve the text where the cursor is over . Anyways , glad you got to work .