Move Text Caret Between Textboxes

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I have a form with many textboxes. Is there a vb.net code to move the mouse pointer(cursor location) to the right(next textbox) after filling one textbox with (say 3 characters)?

Posted 7-Jun-13 4:56am

dflo

Updated 7-Jun-13 7:45am

AspDotNetDev

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Jun-13 11:01am

What "pointer"? Do you want to move the keyboard focus?
System.Windows.Forms? Tag: "WinForms".
—SA

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Solution 1

You hardly can get much help until you learn involved concepts and proper terminology. It's too hard to understand what you are trying to do, and it's possibly that you don't quite understand it yourself, at least it looks so from your question.

By on my guesswork, what you really need is System.Windows.Forms.Control.SelectNextControl:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.selectnextcontrol.aspx[^].

If it's not quite what you want, please don't blame be, better learn asking questions more accurately.

—SA

Posted 7-Jun-13 5:07am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Solution 4

Or for a generic handler:

VB

Private Sub TextBox1_TextChanged(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles TextBox1.TextChanged, TextBox2.TextChanged, TextBox3.TextChanged, TextBox4.TextChanged

    If DirectCast(sender, TextBox).Text.Length >= 3 Then
       DirectCast(sender, TextBox).Parent.SelectNextControl(ActiveControl, True, True, True, True)
    End If

End Sub

Posted 7-Jun-13 5:23am

Pheonyx

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-07T05:10:00

Solution 2

Assuming Winforms, just handle the TextChanged event, check the length and call the Focus method on the other textbox:

VB

Private Sub textBox1_TextChanged(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)
    If textBox1.Text.Length >= 3 Then
        textBox2.Focus()
    End If
End Sub

If this is web based, then you can't do it VB - you need to use Javascript instead.

Posted 7-Jun-13 5:10am

OriginalGriff

Updated 7-Jun-13 5:11am

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Prasad Khandekar 7-Jun-13 11:18am

Seems to be the solution dflo is looking for. (Probably a credit card number or similar entry form). +5

CPallini · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-07T05:11:00

Solution 3

Yes, there is. For instance

VB

Private Sub txbFirst_TextChanged(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles txbFirst.TextChanged
  If txbFirst.Text.Length >= 3 Then
    txbSecond.Focus()
  End If
End Sub

Posted 7-Jun-13 5:11am

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Prasad Khandekar 7-Jun-13 11:17am

Seems to be the solution dflo is looking for. (Probably a credit card number or similar entry form). +5

CPallini 7-Jun-13 11:33am

Thank you.

dflo 7-Jun-13 11:22am

Thanks for your understanding despite my poor question!

CPallini 7-Jun-13 11:33am

You are welcome.