[darek9576]

Im getting into grips with Winforms at the moment.
I have a Richtextbox and i want to disable the user input, but i dont want to do it through Enabled property.

Code:

 private void box_TextChanged(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
    {
        int currentNumber = MAX - box.Text.Length;
        countLabel.Text = "Left characters: " + currentNumber;
        if (currentNumber <= 0)
        {
            System.Console.Beep();
           // box.Enabled = false;   <-- does not do the trick
            
        }
   }

[ragingben]

Setting its property ReadOnly should do the trick

[darek9576]

Well.. in this case its not . The idea is: i have a box where the user types in some input. I have a MAX const that specifies number of characters that the user is able to input. if they type in the MAX value of characters, there should be a beep and no more input allowed BUT the box should be still enabled since they can press backspace in which case the amount of allowed characters is gonna go up.

countLabel is only there for displaying the number of allowed characters and is gonna be changing dynamically as the user types in.

Sorry for not being clear in the first place.

This post has been edited by darek9576: 10 November 2011 - 09:49 AM

[Ryano121]

In that case you will want to handle the .KeyPress event of the RichTextBox.

In the event handler check that the length of the text currently in the textbox is that of the maximum constant i.e - no more text can be inserted.

If the maximum length has been reached, set the .Handled property of the KeyPressEventArgs to true to stop the character from being added.

As a side not I just remembered that there is actually a MaxLength property in the Richtextbox. Just set that to the maxiumum length held in the constant.

[darek9576]

Sweet. It worked. Thank you.

[tlhIn`toq]

SO what was wrong with just setting .enabled to false when you didn't want input? Why was that undesirable?

[darek9576]

.enabled would not allow the user to press backspace.

[tlhIn`toq]

Ah - post 3, I missed that. Skimmed the thread when I should have read it more carefully.

[giuseppe105]

i know this question has already been solved

but to help people who come by the forums searching for an example here is one.

this is what Ryano121 said about killing the key

this example only allows the backspace key to be pressed

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
     richTextBox1.KeyPress += new KeyPressEventHandler(richTextBox1_KeyPress);
}

void richTextBox1_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e)
{
     int c = e.KeyChar;
     if (c != 8)
     {
         e.Handled = true;
     }
}

This post has been edited by giuseppe105: 11 November 2011 - 07:33 PM