[JohnBoyMan]

Hello. I have a unique situation. I have so many text box's that i wound up making a text box array. Now each text box i make i have to give it a mouse clicked event and mouse moved event. I cannot write these event functions for all of the text box's there would be too many. So i thaught i could just find out what text box has been clicked then in the events function iterate through the array of text box's and find out which one has been selected or not.

You might not have understood what im doing , but im simply looking for a textbox's selected variable. Its likely bool. I know check box's have a Checked value. It looks like this

this->checkbox1->Checked=true;

I need somthing like that but for a textbox, that will tell me weather or not it has been clikced on and highlighted. thanks all.

[tlhIn`toq]

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tell me weather or not it has been clikced on and highlighted.

I'm out of my element in C++ but...

I don't think you have to care about whether or not it was clicked on since you do care about text being selected (highlighted). The text being selected it your key to which textbox is in use.

Couldn't you just iterate through you array of textboxes and check what the SelectionLength is? Whichever textbox has a SelectionLength > 0 is your winner.