send Text with Object Focus

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hi all,

C#

focus =textbox1.text;  ???

I want to fill an object with focus?

Posted 15-Sep-12 10:31am

samad blaj

Updated 15-Sep-12 10:47am

Kenneth Haugland

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[no name] 15-Sep-12 16:47pm

What? That makes no sense. Maybe you want to set focus to the textbox? If you had a string variable named "focus" that would make sense...

samad blaj 15-Sep-12 16:51pm

I do not have access to the object name.
Want to become a significant focus by pressing button1 text field object

[no name] 15-Sep-12 16:54pm

That still makes no sense at all. I think what you want to do is TextBox1.Focus().

samad blaj 15-Sep-12 16:52pm

controls.focus="hello";

[no name] 15-Sep-12 16:54pm

That makes even less sense. Focus is not a property it is a method of a control.

Ed Nutting 15-Sep-12 16:51pm

Errr....do you mean textBox1.Focus(); See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.uielement.focus.aspx

Hope this helps,
Ed

samad blaj 15-Sep-12 16:55pm

//Example
string strnew="hello";
Random j;
for (int i = 0; i <= j ; i++)
{
SendKeys.Send ("{tab}");

Focused = strnew; //Important
}

Ed Nutting 15-Sep-12 17:08pm

Wait so are you trying to set the text of the currently focused control? So by Focused = strnew you mean Focused is the currently focused control (changed by your tab key being sent) and = strnew; is supposed to set that control's text?

[no name] 15-Sep-12 17:09pm

Do not re-post your code every where.

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Ed Nutting · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-15T11:11:00

Solution 2

This is an aweful way of doing it - you should not simulate tab keys like this. What you should do is create a List<TextBox> containing the TextBoxes you wish to set the text of then loop through that. E.g.

C#

List<TextBox> MyTextBoxes = new List<TextBox>();
MyTextBoxes.Add(textbox1);
//Add the other boxes here

string strnew = "hello";
int j = (int)Random.Next(0, MyTextBoxes.length);
for(int i = 0; i <= j; i++)
{
    MyTextBoxes[i].Text = strnew;
}

Hope this helps,
Ed

Posted 15-Sep-12 11:11am

Ed Nutting

Updated 15-Sep-12 11:13am

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samad blaj 15-Sep-12 17:17pm

no,see my code.

Ed Nutting 15-Sep-12 17:25pm

Well what on earth is Focused supposed to be then!? Do you mean you want YourForm.AcvtiveControl which gets the control in YourForm that currently has focus? See here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.containercontrol.activecontrol.aspx

samad blaj 15-Sep-12 17:29pm

yesssss.

samad blaj 15-Sep-12 17:31pm

yes,
YourForm.AcvtiveControl="samad"; ?

Ed Nutting 15-Sep-12 17:33pm

Err.. you can't set a control to a string - you need to set the control's Text property. Assuming the active control is definitely a textbox:
((TextBox)YourForm.ActiveControl).Text = "Samad";
would work.

WebMaster · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-15T10:52:00

Solution 1

if you want to change the text of textBoxes in your form:

C#

public void Form_Load(
{
    foreach (Control control in this.Controls)
    {
        if (control is TextBox)
            (control as TextBox).GotFocus += delegate(object sender, EventArgs e)
            {
                 (control as TextBox).Text = "hello";
            }
    }
}

Posted 15-Sep-12 10:52am

WebMaster

Updated 15-Sep-12 11:28am

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samad blaj 15-Sep-12 16:55pm

noooo, controls.focus="hello";

[no name] 15-Sep-12 16:59pm

When and Where do you want to do that?
Please improve your question.

Ed Nutting 15-Sep-12 16:59pm

focus is a method - not a Text Property! You cannot set it! What are you trying to achieve? Please improve your question to describe what you think that line of code should do? Use the Improve Question link that's in green at the bottom right of your question.

Thanks,
Ed

samad blaj 15-Sep-12 17:02pm

//Example
string strnew="hello";
Random j;
for (int i = 0; i <= j ; i++)
{
SendKeys.Send ("{tab}");

Focused = strnew; //Important
}

[no name] 15-Sep-12 17:05pm

Every line of your code doesn't make any sense.

Please explain to get your answer.

Ed Nutting 15-Sep-12 17:15pm

Please see my interpretation of his insane code below - I think he was trying to go through his controls one by one (by simulating tab key :O ) each time getting the currently focused control (Focused) and then set that control's text. Seems very odd thing to be doing really but hey-ho, people do some crazy stuff sometimes! :)

Ed

[no name] 15-Sep-12 17:20pm

Wow!!!
You mean Focused is a Control?

samad blaj 15-Sep-12 17:24pm

thanks, yes.
my upload source?

[no name] 15-Sep-12 17:29pm

See my changes in the answer.
I hope it helps.

Ed Nutting 15-Sep-12 17:24pm

Well I think so - I can't see anything else "fitting-the-bill" though OP still insists that I am wrong!?

samad blaj 15-Sep-12 17:36pm

Ed Nutting , Meysam Tolouee, thanks.okey.
this.activecontrol.text="ok";
bye

samad blaj 16-Sep-12 2:30am

for (int i = 0; i <= 5; i++)
{
SendKeys.Send("{tab}");
}
this.ActiveControl.Text = "hello"; ??????
this.ActiveControl.Select();

paste string "hello" in focused?

[no name] 16-Sep-12 3:32am

this code is not efficient.As Ed Nutting said to you you should cast to TextBox
Can you tell me why you are doing this? What is the point?

samad blaj · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-15T21:25:00

Solution 5

hi all, help me in code:

C#

for (int i = 0; i <= 5; i++)
            {
                SendKeys.Send("{tab}");
            }
            this.ActiveControl.Text = "hello"; ??????
            this.ActiveControl.Select();

paste string "hello" in focused?

Posted 15-Sep-12 21:25pm

samad blaj