Firing the Autocomplete for textbox on button click

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I have a windows application wherein on a textbox I have set the autocomplete property. Now this property works well when values are inserted with the use of a keyboard. However mine would be a touchscreen application and a keyboard may/may not be used. I also have softboard/onscreen keyboard to enter values which is made up of normal C# buttons. I want the autocomplete to fire on the click of these buttons.
I hope i have made my problem pretty clear.
Can somebody help please?

Regards,
Sunit

Posted 11-Mar-11 6:56am

Sunit Parab

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Toli Cuturicu 11-Mar-11 13:02pm

Your question is very clear. I voted you 5. Sadly I don't know the answer.

Sunit Parab 11-Mar-11 13:29pm

Thanx Toli for considering goin through my question.

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Albin Abel · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-11T07:36:00

Hi If you use SendKeys function instead of appending a text from the soft keyboard then the autocomplte will be trigger.

C#

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
     textBox1.Focus();
     SendKeys.Send("{A}");
 }

Autocomplete mode work by hooking the current key state and the previous text in the textbox. So if you emulate the key state it supposed to work. I am not sure how you can do this with the touch screen.