[rakyomin]

My Application contains a button and two text boxes.

1st textbox is for user input known as tbHost.Text

2nd textbox is for displaying results after button is clicked, this is set to readonly.

The button is a start button that will call a new process every time it is clicked.

I intend to let user to have a choice to either click on button to display result or press enter key to display result.

When user finished writing the host in the tbHost.Text, user only needs to press enter to display the results.

I could not seem to find an event in textbox that will response to a keyboard enter key...

any insights for me to look into?

[Damage]

I can't remember what time frame you should look at exactly but i know this issue has been dealt with before here, use the search function and you'll get your answer

Have you tried setting the AcceptButton(under misc on the form) value on your form to the button you want clicked?

This post has been edited by Damage: 01 October 2008 - 09:58 PM

[rakyomin]

I managed to figure this out by myself.

For the benefit for other people who wonders how this is done, the codes are below.
declare this within your form class.

Declare Function GetAsyncKeyState Lib "user32" (ByVal vKey As Integer) As Short

or

Public Declare Function GetAsyncKeyState Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal vKey As Int32) As UShort

Go to your user input text box for my case is tbHost.Text, write this code into the event tbHost_KeyDown:

if GetAsyncKeyState(key number) then
'do your job here
EndIf

For my case I only concern about return key which is number 13.

Upon keydown event if enter key is detected down, it will perform my task, the same task if user is to click start button

[jacobjordan]

That will work, but that's way overcomplicated for something as simple as this. A slightly better way of doing it is to create a keydown event for your textbox (like you already did) and put this code in it

            If e.KeyCode = Keys.Enter Then
                e.SuppressKeyPress = True
                'Put whatever you want here.
            End If

[PsychoCoder]

I completely agree with jacobjordan, using Pinvoke for something this simple is way overkill

[rakyomin]

Thanks JacobJordan for giving me a better way of doing this

It is much simpler this way

Declaring "user32.dll" lib is way too difficult to remember hahaha.... anyway I had a sense of achievement of able to find out overkill method of doing something simple.. at least I tried to look for solution for myself first haha...

Anyway how did you make the vbcodes with color? by using [vbcode]...[/vbcode]? I felt this way of showing my code is clearer...

This post has been edited by rakyomin: 02 October 2008 - 07:49 PM

[jacobjordan]

I used [code=vb][/code]
Here are the other ones i know:

[code=csharp][/code]
[code=cpp][/code]
[code=java][/code]
[code=php][/code]

There are many more, but i don't know them.

[rakyomin]

thank you for telling me JacobJordan

Now i can include easier to read code in the forum

[w_sampath]

Thanks, I used it on my project.

[vlogger3000]

jacobjordan, on 02 October 2008 - 03:34 PM, said:

That will work, but that's way overcomplicated for something as simple as this. A slightly better way of doing it is to create a keydown event for your textbox (like you already did) and put this code in it

            If e.KeyCode = Keys.Enter Then
                e.SuppressKeyPress = True
                'Put whatever you want here.
            End If

when i use that i get this:
Error 1 'KeyCode' is not a member of 'System.EventArgs'. C:\Users\Brooks\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\JweB 1.0\JweB 1.0\Form1.vb 83 12 JweB 1.0
Error 2 'SuppressKeyPress' is not a member of 'System.EventArgs'. C:\Users\Brooks\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\JweB 1.0\JweB 1.0\Form1.vb 84 13 JweB 1.0

I'm trying to make a web browser and i want the URL bar to respond to enter.
I have a "Go" Button, with this line:
CType(TabControl1.SelectedTab.Controls.Item(0), WebBrowser).Navigate(ComboBox1.Text)

but when i press enter after typing a URL i get a little error beep. what am i doing wrong?

[HowDoIShotVB]

vlogger3000, on 28 March 2010 - 05:17 PM, said:

jacobjordan, on 02 October 2008 - 03:34 PM, said:

That will work, but that's way overcomplicated for something as simple as this. A slightly better way of doing it is to create a keydown event for your textbox (like you already did) and put this code in it

            If e.KeyCode = Keys.Enter Then
                e.SuppressKeyPress = True
                'Put whatever you want here.
            End If

when i use that i get this:
Error 1 'KeyCode' is not a member of 'System.EventArgs'. C:\Users\Brooks\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\JweB 1.0\JweB 1.0\Form1.vb 83 12 JweB 1.0
Error 2 'SuppressKeyPress' is not a member of 'System.EventArgs'. C:\Users\Brooks\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\JweB 1.0\JweB 1.0\Form1.vb 84 13 JweB 1.0

I'm trying to make a web browser and i want the URL bar to respond to enter.
I have a "Go" Button, with this line:
CType(TabControl1.SelectedTab.Controls.Item(0), WebBrowser).Navigate(ComboBox1.Text)

but when i press enter after typing a URL i get a little error beep. what am i doing wrong?

Resurrecting an ultra old thread.

[emresutisna]

vlogger3000, on 28 March 2010 - 05:17 PM, said:

jacobjordan, on 02 October 2008 - 03:34 PM, said:

That will work, but that's way overcomplicated for something as simple as this. A slightly better way of doing it is to create a keydown event for your textbox (like you already did) and put this code in it

            If e.KeyCode = Keys.Enter Then
                e.SuppressKeyPress = True
                'Put whatever you want here.
            End If

when i use that i get this:
Error 1 'KeyCode' is not a member of 'System.EventArgs'. C:\Users\Brooks\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\JweB 1.0\JweB 1.0\Form1.vb 83 12 JweB 1.0
Error 2 'SuppressKeyPress' is not a member of 'System.EventArgs'. C:\Users\Brooks\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\JweB 1.0\JweB 1.0\Form1.vb 84 13 JweB 1.0

I'm trying to make a web browser and i want the URL bar to respond to enter.
I have a "Go" Button, with this line:
CType(TabControl1.SelectedTab.Controls.Item(0), WebBrowser).Navigate(ComboBox1.Text)

but when i press enter after typing a URL i get a little error beep. what am i doing wrong?

Try to change to be like this one :

Private Sub TextBox1_KeyPress(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.KeyPress
  If Asc(e.KeyChar) = 13 Then
    'Write whatever you want here
  End If
End Sub

Hope it helps

[spatel_ce]

rakyomin, on 01 October 2008 - 08:42 PM, said:

My Application contains a button and two text boxes.

1st textbox is for user input known as tbHost.Text

2nd textbox is for displaying results after button is clicked, this is set to readonly.

The button is a start button that will call a new process every time it is clicked.

I intend to let user to have a choice to either click on button to display result or press enter key to display result.

When user finished writing the host in the tbHost.Text, user only needs to press enter to display the results.

I could not seem to find an event in textbox that will response to a keyboard enter key...

any insights for me to look into?

It has been such a long time, so this problem would have been solved. But here is a simplest error free method which I use in vb.net.

Private Sub Textbox1_KeyPress(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) Handles Textbox1.KeyPress
            If e.KeyChar = Microsoft.VisualBasic.ChrW(Keys.Enter) Then
                'Set Your Code Here
            End If
End Sub

[vikxit]

Quote

Have you tried setting the AcceptButton(under misc on the form) value on your form to the button you want clicked?

This is the answer. You must set the "AcceptButton" in the form properties.