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Zishan Haider4-Nov-04 17:57

Zishan Haider

4-Nov-04 17:57

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set enter key instead of tab key

amalatsliit3-Nov-04 18:57

amalatsliit

3-Nov-04 18:57

In my customer form there are few text box's for enter Data.i have set up sequence of tab no's for those text box's.What i want is to move cusor from
text field 1 to text field 2 by pressing Enter Key.

How can i do this by using c#.

Can any one Please Help me.

Amal Confused | :confused:

DanieVanEck3-Nov-04 19:36

DanieVanEck

3-Nov-04 19:36

Place the following code in textbox1's keydown event. Repeat for all other textboxes accordingly.

private void textBox1_KeyDown(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs e)
{
if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Enter)
textBox2.Focus();
}

DanieVanEck3-Nov-04 19:41

DanieVanEck

3-Nov-04 19:41

Here is a better solution. Place this code in a common keydown event between all the textboxes. Then set the taborder of the textboxes in the order that they sould be focussed.

private void textBox1_KeyDown_1(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs e)
{
int i = ((TextBox)sender).TabIndex;
if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Enter)
{
foreach (Control c in this.Controls)
{
if (c is TextBox)
{
if (((TextBox)c).TabIndex == i + 1)
{
c.Focus();
}
}
}
}
}

sreejith ss nair3-Nov-04 19:50

3-Nov-04 19:50

To set and view the Tab order, On the View menu, choose Tab Order which is avilable in .NET IDE.

to select control using enter key, use below mentioned code block.

private void Form1_KeyDown(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs e)<br />
{<br />
			<br />
if(e.KeyValue==13)<br />
{<br />
				this.SelectNextControl(this.ActiveControl,true,true,false,true);<br />
}<br />
			<br />
}

The above code block is only tip to achive your requirement.
Please see more details on SelectNextControl Method for different style of selection and parameter types in MSDN.
Big Grin | :-D

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Jay Shankar4-Nov-04 15:03

Jay Shankar

4-Nov-04 15:03

Sreejith, Sorry for the interruption in between. I doubt whether Form's KeyDown event will get fired, If textBox has the focus.

I feel, It would not solve the purpose. You should call the SelectNextControl method in the KeyDown Or KeyUp event of the textbox.

amalatsliit10-Mar-05 18:08

amalatsliit

10-Mar-05 18:08

Dear friens,
Above problem working with windows forms.but my problem is how do we apply above things in webforms.cas in asp.net ,textbox don't have focus property right.

How we set enter key operations on asp.net.

Thanks

help with a new control

tom_dx3-Nov-04 16:03

tom_dx

3-Nov-04 16:03

does any one know how to make a grand staff since i think i would have to use gdi+ since .net doesn't support making custom controls, any ideas on how to start though?

IM PROUD TO BE A GMAIL;

sreejith ss nair3-Nov-04 16:55

3-Nov-04 16:55

You Wrote:
does any one know how to make a grand staff
What sort of control that you are looking for ?

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Dave Kreskowiak3-Nov-04 17:18

3-Nov-04 17:18

tom_dx wrote:
make a grand staff

What's a "grand staff"?

tom_dx wrote:
since .net doesn't support making custom controls

What do you think is limiting you?

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Roger Alsing4-Nov-04 2:26

Roger Alsing

4-Nov-04 2:26

DOH!!! , obviously he needs a "Lesser Staff" to inherit from D'Oh! | :doh:

and that is missing in .NET Poke tongue | ;-P

//Roger

Dave Kreskowiak4-Nov-04 6:23

Best Practice For .NET Service

4-Nov-04 6:23

Another thing I missed when reading the .NET Framework SDK! Poke tongue | ;-P

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SigEpUCI3-Nov-04 15:07

SigEpUCI

3-Nov-04 15:07

Hi,

I wrote a .NET Windows service that spawns a thread which periodically performs some DB related work. When the service starts, it spawns the thread, when the service stops, it aborts the thread.

The thread sleeps for 30 seconds, then wakes ups and querys some DB values, then sleeps again in an infinite loop.

A friend suggested that I Use a timer instead of a sleeping thread, and I could not think of an explicit reason why each approach is better. What approach would you take and why?

Thanks,
Jeff

Re: Best Practice For .NET Service

sreejith ss nair3-Nov-04 16:59

Re: Best Practice For .NET Service

3-Nov-04 16:59

I will always prefer Thread.Sleep(xxxx).
We have facility to make the thread sleep for required seconds. Then why shold i use timer here.

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Dave Kreskowiak3-Nov-04 17:17

Re: Best Practice For .NET Service

3-Nov-04 17:17

Because, IIRC, a Sleeping thread won't respond to ANYTHING until it wakes up again. Do you want to wait 30 seconds for the thread to abort, or the service to stop, or its interface to respond, or ... ?

RageInTheMachine9532
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Sebastian Schneider4-Nov-04 22:40

Sebastian Schneider

4-Nov-04 22:40

Exactly.

You cannot wake up a sleeping thread prematurely, so you have to wait for the thread to wake up before you can abort the thread etc.

If you used a timer, you could fire your processing method every 30 seconds and still be able to "fire" it in between conditionally.

e.g. Admin connecting to service, requesting another db-op on the same db with non-standard commands etc.

parsing

webhay3-Nov-04 14:17

webhay

3-Nov-04 14:17

hello all

i do this code in db but parse give me this erro "input string not in the correct format" When i leave the field parsed blank (textBox2.text)

"Insert INTO test (Name,age,address) Values('"+textBox1.Text+"','"+decimal.Parse(textBox2.Text)+"','"+textBox3.Text+"

Regards
haytham

Dave Kreskowiak3-Nov-04 17:14

3-Nov-04 17:14

This is what I mean by string concantenation. Don't EVER do this! Use parameterized queries instead. What you doing now results in goofy error you have trouble nailing down and also REALLY opens your code up for SQL injection attacks. For examples, check out the SqlParameter class[^].

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Charlie Williams3-Nov-04 17:15

Charlie Williams

3-Nov-04 17:15

The Decimal type can't parse an empty string. It's as invalid a decimal as "Frank" is.

Either make sure you're only dealing with valid values in the TextBox before you parse it or catch the FormatException that will be thrown otherwise. You'll get better performance validating the input, though.

By the way, when Dave Kreskowiak asked you about using string concatenation to build your SQL statement a few posts down, this is what he meant.

A much better way is to use parameters in your query. The exact syntax varies from provider to provider, but here's an example:

// Create the command with place-holders for the parameters
OleDbCommand command = new OleDbCommand("Insert INTO test (Name,age,address) Values(?, ?, ?)");
  
// _name, _age, and _address are variables of the appropriate type that are defined
// and validated elsewhere.  I don't add them straight from 
// the TextBoxes because I don't want junk in my database.
command.Parameters.Add(new OleDbParameter("Name", _name));
command.Parameters.Add(new OleDbParameter("Age", _age));
command.Parameters.Add(new OleDbParameter("Address", _address));

Charlie

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webhay4-Nov-04 1:03

webhay

4-Nov-04 1:03

Hello Charlie,

Thanks for your help...

i try this code but give the same error

SqlConnection cnn    = new SqlConnection();<br />
			cnn.ConnectionString = "workstation id=SERVER;packet size=4096;integrated security=SSPI;data source=SERVER;persist security info=True;initial catalog=TestDB";<br />
SqlCommand  cmd       = new SqlCommand("Insert INTO test (Name,age,address) Values(@Name,@age,@address)");<br />
			//cmd.CommandType      = CommandType.Text;<br />
			<br />
			cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@Name",SqlDbType.VarChar));<br />
			cmd.Parameters["@Name"].Value = textBox1.Text;<br />
<br />
			cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@age",SqlDbType.Decimal));<br />
			cmd.Parameters["@age"].Value = decimal.Parse(textBox2.Text.Trim());<br />
<br />
			cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@address",SqlDbType.VarChar));<br />
			cmd.Parameters["@address"].Value = textBox3.Text;<br />
	<br />
			<br />
			<br />
			//cmd.CommandText  = "Insert INTO test (Name,age,address) Values(@Name,@age,@address)";<br />
			cnn.Open();<br />
			cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();<br />
			cnn.Close();

please help

Thanks

webhay4-Nov-04 1:03

webhay

4-Nov-04 1:03

Hello Charlie,

Thanks for your help...

i try this code but give the same error

SqlConnection cnn    = new SqlConnection();<br />
			cnn.ConnectionString = "workstation id=SERVER;packet size=4096;integrated security=SSPI;data source=SERVER;persist security info=True;initial catalog=TestDB";<br />
SqlCommand  cmd       = new SqlCommand("Insert INTO test (Name,age,address) Values(@Name,@age,@address)");<br />
			//cmd.CommandType      = CommandType.Text;<br />
			<br />
			cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@Name",SqlDbType.VarChar));<br />
			cmd.Parameters["@Name"].Value = textBox1.Text;<br />
<br />
			cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@age",SqlDbType.Decimal));<br />
			cmd.Parameters["@age"].Value = decimal.Parse(textBox2.Text.Trim());<br />
<br />
			cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@address",SqlDbType.VarChar));<br />
			cmd.Parameters["@address"].Value = textBox3.Text;<br />
	<br />
			<br />
			<br />
			//cmd.CommandText  = "Insert INTO test (Name,age,address) Values(@Name,@age,@address)";<br />
			cnn.Open();<br />
			cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();<br />
			cnn.Close();

please help

Thanks