Text Changed

[kfcSmitty]

Is there a way to have 1 procedure handle all the textchanged events on a certain form?

I have a boolean variable I am using to check whether the user has editted any information, and I need to set it to true if any of the textboxes get changed.

So is there any like global "text changed" event or anything?

[Ecniv]

form has an event called Dirty (I think) that should tell you if the user has changed anything.

Alternatively, there is a tag property on the controls, whichc doesn't seems to do much, and you can shove the initial values into that as well as the control, then later, check the tags against the controls values to see if anything has changed.

[kfcSmitty]

hrm, well dirty doesnt work....And using the tag property seems like it would be more coding than adding 6 textboxes textchanged events.

Thanks anyways

[StevenHickerson]

This isn't exactly a global text changed event but it can be made to work as one. If you turn the forms KeyPreview value over to true then use the form_keypress form_keydown form_keyup subs you can tell when the person presses a key.

It would be up to you from there to determine if it was a change that you want to handle or not. To delve into that a little further lets say you were watching for changes in any textbox on your form you could do,

Sub Form_KeyUp(KeyCode As VbKeyCode) ' I know the sub isn't correct
If ActiveControl.Type = TextBox Then
    'Handle the change
End If
End Sub

[RobDog888]

Or you could in each of the events for the textboxes make another call to a central procedure to perform the common tsks.