Set Cursor in TextBox from Form Start

[Mischamel]

Hi,

 

I´d like to set the Cursor into TextBox, behind its start text. Tried several methods, but I didn´t get it working.

.focus(), .select(), pointtoscreen() etc. Any other ideas, how to get this blinking one, into the TBox

[mutant]

You want to move the caret ("the blinking one") to the end of the text right? This should help you: (I can't test it now)

TextBox1.SelectionStart = TextBox1.Text.Length

[Mischamel]

Nope! I even tried it before in a similar way. But your suggest doesn´t work proper as well. No caret blinkin in my TBox.

[mutant]

Did you set focus to the textbox?

[NK2000]

i also looked at some other posts about this topic but i found the answer that everything works well with richtextbox but textbox wont work, but there must be a solution maybe you have to do an win32 call

[mutant]

NK2000, i just tested the code I showed and it works well. It will set the caret at the specified position. The textbox must of course have focus to show the caret at all. Edited January 28, 2004 by mutant

[NK2000]

oh *bow* i am sorry, so i wonder why it doesnt work at his project..

[Mischamel]

I ain´t gonna get it working, either with TBox nor RichTextBox and methods shown above. I guess its as usual. It won´t fit for me. Thanks MS. But I'll keep on trying and if something positive should happen, I´ll be reporting.

[Mischamel]

Ok. It works just the way mutant wrote. But not in a ChildForm. It´s working fine within a Panel, which I took to replace the form.

 

 

Thanks so far guys, you helped me a lot.

[NK2000]

yeah thanks mutant :)