What is Keyboard Enter Button event handler?

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In a simple windows form application there is 3 textbox and 1 button.

Say a user of program may want to enter a lot of data with this form.
Every time he/she fills the textboxes and press enter button by mouse or after filling last textbox he/she pushes the TAB key in keyboard and pushes the Enter key which is faster than using mouse.
But it is still slow.

Is there an event hander which runs when user fill the 3rd textbox push Enter Key then program save data?

Example: Like google search engine, you enter your phrase in thex box and pushing the Enter key, then searching will be started.

I want this for making my form most user friendly.
I can't recognize the event handler.

Please help

Posted 31-Mar-11 22:36pm

calcushtag

Updated 6-Apr-11 23:24pm

Dalek Dave

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Dalek Dave 7-Apr-11 5:24am

Edited for Grammar, Syntax and Readability.

4 solutions

Solution 1

Use the Keypress event of the 3^rd TextBox. Inside that event handler all you have to do is to check if the user pressed the enter button and then call the routine that saves the data, clears the form and jumps back to the first input field.

Happy coding!

Posted 31-Mar-11 22:40pm

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 1-Apr-11 5:39am

Good, my 5.

Good morning, Manfred.

Congratulations with congratulations with April 1st! :-)
Din't you see my April 1st post yet?
Please see this (and of course my "Answer"): http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/175233/WARNING-Black-Line-of-Death-in-windows-phone-7.aspx

:-)
--SA

Solution 3

Set the AcceptButton property of form as your button name.

Posted 31-Mar-11 23:10pm

Umesh Shukla

Solution 5

check this url

http://www.dotnetperls.com/keycode[^]

or use the code

C#

private void textBox1_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Enter)
    {
    // Enter (return) was pressed.
    // ... Call a custom method when user presses this key.
    AcceptMethod();
    }
}

Posted 30-Nov-12 0:03am

Devendra 1988

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Eduard Keilholz · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-31T22:41:00

Solution 2

Have your tried catching the 3rd textbox's KeyUp event? The event handler contains information about the key that was pressed!

C#

if (e.KeyCode == KeyCodes.Enter)
{
  // Do stuff!
}

Have fun!

Eduard

Posted 31-Mar-11 22:41pm

Eduard Keilholz

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 1-Apr-11 13:50pm

You artistically avoided answering the question "What is Keyboard Enter Button event handler". After all, let OP learn something on her/his own, this would be much more useful.
My 5.
--SA

Dalek Dave 7-Apr-11 5:25am

Good Call.