Visual Basic :: Moving Cursor In A TextBox

Prevent Cursor In Textbox From Moving
like in the thread title,
is there anyways to prevent the cursor from shifting or moving within a textbox??

for example, i press right or left arrow buttons for some reasons, but i do not want to move the cursor in the textbox that is used for input....maybe it is preferable to maintain the cursor at the end of the string that the user typed or backspace.

Moving Cursor To Next Textbox Automatically
I have 8 small textboxes with a maxlength of 1, and I want to make it so when somebody types a character in one of the boxes it automatically moves the cursor to the next box without the user having to press tab or manually click the next box.
Is there an easy way to do this?

Moving The Textbox Cursor To The End Of All Text
hello,
i'm making am update client for an online journal website. the website supports bbcode, so in the app i've made buttons like Bold, Italic, Underline, etc...so when you click the button it prints either an opening tag or a closing tag . but when you click the button it and set the focus on the textbox again the cursor in the textbox moves to the beginning.

Code:

Tag$ = "[b]"
txtBody.Text = txtBody.Text + Tag$
txtBody.SetFocus

i know there is a way to keep the cursor at the end of the textbox i just don't know how. could anyone help me out?
thanks
-Dustin

VB6/Blinking Cursor/Textbox/Move Cursor
Hello!

I would like to always have a blinking cursor in my textbox.

Right now I have a touchscreen with a virual keyboard. All letter commands are sent to the textbox. When I change the properties of the textbox to Arrow (i.e. mouse pointer), the blinking cursor goes away once the virtual keyboard is pressed!

Can someone explain how I can get the blinking cursor to stay at the end of the inputted text?

Also...

I would like to create arrow keys. If the user messed up the inputted text, he can move the blinking cursor left one space at a time between inputted characters to add a letter. Then a button to move the blinking cursor back to the end of the inputted text.

Would be grateful for any help and explanations. Thanks.

Help With Moving Cursor
Hey, I'm kinda new but still aspiring Just got VB from my dad (old copy...) and I'm trying to do some cool stuff w/ it

what i'm looking to do is make a program, which when run, with wait "123456" seconds/min, then move the cursor to coordinate (X,Y) on the screen, then 'click', and move again to new coordinates (X,Y) and click again, then close itself.

if anyone can point out any tips, references, or directions, that would be great. It would be even better if you could make a program for me, which I could then edit to my tastes...thanks!

note: i have VB 4, so there might be some compatability issues when i try to edit

note: this is for my own personal use, not commercial, so don't worry about me being a script kiddie

- Cursor Moving
I know how to do the SetCursorPos now. But how would I make the cursor move from it's current position to like plus so many pixels.. So.. Let's say the mouse is at 50, 50. How can I make it move down the Y, let's say 10 pixels, to where the cursor is at. This is kind of hard to explain. :S Simple.. But I'm bad at explaining. :P

And I can't just define the place to move the mouse.. So I need it to SetCursorPos currentx, currenty +10, for example. :S

Cool, I just noticed the GetCursorPos, and I used that to get the current x,y and just do something like mousepotition.y + 10.

Edited by - Do the hokey pokey on 9/17/2004 7:18:34 PM

Smootly Moving The Cursor
I need to know how to show a smootly moving mouse cursor without actually moving the mouse. I know you can use the SetCursorPos API but it just zips the cursor directly where you want it to go.

I was thinking I could set up some fast moving SetCursorPos calls, but i'm not good with the physics of making it move say...in a parbola, zig zag, randomness, or getting it to land on what i want it to land on.

help will be appreciated.

Moving A Text Cursor...
Hi,

Another (hopefully simple!) problem here - I hava a text box with a lot of text in. How can I position the text cursor at the bottom of the text.?

Many thanks!

Mark-R

Moving Cursor To Last(new) Row In Datagrid
on my form i have textboxes and a datagrid, each column in the datagrid relating to each of the texboxes on the form. When i click the "new" command button, i am blanking out the text in the textboxes to allow for new entry. I also want the cursor in the datagrid to point to a new row (record) (i have set the property of the datagrid to AllowAddNew), how do i do this?
Thanks in advance!

Moving Cursor On FlexiGrid
Hi Guys
Beleive me or not,this Extreme Forum help millions of our beloved daughters and sons of this beutiful world,Programmers, the MOTHERBOARD OF the World Information.

Guys here is my fustration: through other comrade's assistance,I have my FlexiGrid Highlighting the column I entered,So now I want my Highlighting background to move with my cursor as I brows through FlexiGrid,when i scroll down or up.

thanx

Tman

Moving The Cursor To The End Of A Texbox
Hi,

I have a textbox that has the multiline at true
When I click on a button it put a word in the textbox, but
my problem is when I have 30 words it is larger than the textbox and I dont,t see the last word I added in the textbox at the end, so what I would like is that when I add a word, that I see the last word I added at the end in the textbox and not the frist word at the beginning.

thanks

David

Moving Cursor 1 Pixel
Hi i dont know how to do this. I tried setcursorpos and making variables like x and y and then increase x and y. but i dont want to move the cursor like that, it does something chaotic. I just want it to move it one pixel right, or up, etc. Instead of giving it position all the time. is it possible ?

Moving Cursor Within A Combo Box
Hello. I have a VB6 app that, when a user opens a form the focus is on a drop-down. If they hit the space bar (an invalid entry) it slaps their hand with a message box and makes them re-enter. The only problem is that once the message box closes the cursor is in the second position within the combo box. I'm still looking, but I'm not finding how to reset the cursor to the first position.

Thanks!

Ed

Moving Cursor To Next Text Box
I have two text boxes on a form.

I want to be able to type 6 characters in the first text box and press enter. Then the cursor should move to the next text box.

I'm sure there is a simple way to do this but I just cant seem to get it working.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Moving The Mouse Cursor
this has prolly been asked a bazillion times, but what is the simplest what to move the mouse cursor (dont be a smarta$$ and say use the mouse) :P

Moving Cursor Using VB Program
Hi every one... i think we can access all the resources in d system using VB. Can any one tell me hw we can move the cursor using VB code.... i.e when ever i press a command button the cursor should automatically move to the specified locations on the screen.... thanks in advance...

Moving Cursor In Text Box
I have a text box in a form. I would like to enter a prefix code (two letters) into the text box, move the cursor to the end of the 2 letters in the text box, and allow the user to finish the entry from there.

How do I move the cursor in the text box to the end of the 2 letters?

Thanks in advance.
Dave Sharp

Moving The Mouse Cursor
I have to bother you again but this time with a different question.
I would like to know what to do i order to move the mouse cursor on the screen without physically touching the mouse. For instance, I would like my application to move the mouse cursor from time to time one inch to the left, and then one inch back to the right again.
Does anybody know if this is considered by the system as if you are physically moving the mouse and, for instance, is preventing the screen saver from launching?

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thank you for your time, God bless.

Vio

Vio

Moving Objects To The Mouse Cursor?
I am making a diablo style RPG and I need to implement a mouse system like diablo where you click somewhere and your character will move towards it.
All I need to know tho is how to make objects move to the mouse cursor position.

And I was also wondering how I can use the arrow keys on the keyboard to make them do commands.

Moving A Mouse Cursor Remotely
8 years ago, back when I was learning VB for the first time in highschool, one of the students in the class was messing around with API's, and managed to move my mouse around from another computer! I thought my computer was possesed or something.

Out of curiousity, I would like to see how it was done. It has boggled my mind for years. Thanks in advance.

Selecting A Paragraph And Moving Cursor ...
How do I select a paragrapgh, copy I guess using "Selection.Copy" then move the cursor to the begining of the next until EOF?

How Can You Move The Cursor W/out Moving The Mouse?
HI,

I have tried using SetCursorPos to adjust the position of the cursor on screen, without the mouse, but I want it to adjust the cursor position relative to something else. E.g. :

FirstMousePosition.X - 10

Where 10 represents an `x` co-ordinate.

Is it possible to do this?

Any Info

Thanks

Mark

Moving Mouse By Cursor Keys
Hello VB cracks,

I've encountered a problem while implementing code for moving the mouse by pressing cursor keys. I've done the follwing:

1.) Get the current mouse position with GetCursorPos
2.) Transform the screen coordinates into window coordinates with ScreenToClient
3.) Manipulate the position by adding/subtracting a little to the x- or y-coordinate
4.) Transform the (manipulted) position back to screen coordinates with ClientToScreen
5.) Set the new cursorpos with SetCursorPos

This works very fine but there is a small ugly thing. The value I add/subtract from the cursor position is either too big, so the cursor jumps not very precise or the value is too small, so the cursor is very slow.

Now my idea: The longer you press the key the quicker the mouse move. But I don't know how to do this. There is the point where I need your help. Does anybody have some cool code to do this ? I hope so.

Best regards

Michael Hartmann

Moving Mouse Cursor With Code
I am trying to make the mouse cursor move by using code so that the cursor will move by itself at set intervals. Any ideas would be great.

Moving Mouse Cursor To The Listitem Of A Combobox
When the drop down portion of a combobox is dropped, one can navigate between the items changing the selection using the keyboard's up and down arrow keys. (This also triggers a click event)

Now I want to move the mouse cursor automatically to the selection highlighted by the user. How can I deal with it ?
Thank you.

Moving Cursor Forward And Backward Using .find
Is it possible to move the cursor on a recordset forwards and backwards using the .find method?

I ask because I'm querying my database and placing the result in recordset. Once that query has been made, I want the user to be able to search those records for a particular one using the .find method and have it move the cursor to the record that they searched for. Then I want them to be able to search for another record, regardless of where the cursor is. It seems to work fine when I move the cursor forward but as soon as I try to move it backwards, it gives me the error # 3021. I've attached a screen shot of the error details.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Simulate Mouse Movement Without Moving Cursor
Hello, Anyone think that by posting WM_MOVEDOWN and WM_MOVELEAVE to a window will be sufficient to make the computer feel the mouse is over a certain window?

I need to avoid the animation of the cursor going over that area.
Please help.

Moving Cursor To Specific Pixel On Screen
Hey guys. I have a pixel on my screen (1 pixel that can be located anywhere on my screen). What I want to do is I want the cursor to move to that pixel whenever i click one of my command buttons. The pixel color as a long value is 3706556. Could anyone help? I used GetPixel to scan the window for the pixel im searching for, and i used a nested loop to make it search both x and y positions. The thing is, it takes WAY too long and it lags too much to do that. Anyone got any better ideas?

Moving Cursor To Next Tabindex On Enter Key Press
Hi
I have a form and I want to allow user to navigate all fields using "enter key" but I don't want to do it using arrays.I have to use this in many form so I need just one function which i will write inside form_keypress() event.It will read the current tabindex and shift cursor to next tabindex on enter ket press.

Private Sub Form_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)

If KeyAscii = 13 Then

MsgBox KeyAscii

' THE CODE

End If

End Sub

Please reply ASAP.

thanks,

sincerely,
summerisland

Moving Cursor To 2nd Line When Pressing Enter
When I press Enter key in a textbox the cursor is not going to the next line. So how to make it? Thanks.

Scrolling MSHFLEXGRID Programmatically And Moving Cursor
I have a created a wrapper class for MSHFLEXGRID that makes it easy to
edit the values in the grid and even allows validity checking of input.
I need to be able to repopulate the grid and set the cursor location to
a specific point in the grid. I have tried several tricks by moving
other controls to points in the grid, setting focus and then setting
back to MSHFLEXGRID but the results are not perfect.

My guess is that there is a SendMessage operation code that will allow
this but I do not seem to be able to find a good source for these codes.
I recently found all the operation codes for textboxes for another
problem I was having - see
http://www.developersdomain.com/vb/toolbox/basTextB oxFeatures.bas. I
need a similar source for MSHFLEXGRID. (Actually it would be great if
someone could point to a comprehensive source for message for all common
Microsoft controls - this would be immensly valuable for all members of
the group.

Thanks in advance

Martin A.Sheridan
TekResults Ltd.
www.tekresults.com

TekResults... Your complete IT partner

How To Stop Cursor Keys Moving Focus ?
I am writing a program where an object can be moved round the screen. I first did this using command buttons and then wanted to add the option of using the keyboard cursor keys.

KeyAscii and/or KeyCode worked for most keys but not the cursor keys which didn't seem to generate any events. I got something working using an API call (GetAsyncKeyState).

The bit which still bugs me is that when the user presses the cursor keys, as well as moving the on-screen object, it also moves focus round the various command buttons.

Can anyone suggest how to stop this happening ?

Change Mouse Cursor When Moving Over Control
Hi,

how can I change the mouse cursor icon, whenever the user moves over some control, usually a label control? Similar to the way mouse cursor changes when moving onto a hyperlink on a webpage.

thanx, ds

Moving Insertion Point With Mouse Cursor In RichTextBox
Does anybody know how to track/move the insertion point in a RichTextBox with the mouse cursor? For instance, as I move the cursor over nodes in a treeview control that has HotTracking turned on the node highlights/selects.

This is basically what I'd like to accomplish in a RTB control. As the mouse moves over the contents of the RTB control, I'd like the insertion point to move with the cursor.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Moving The Cursor Back To The Start Of A Rich Text Box
Any idea how to create a button that moves the cursor back to the begining of a rich text box?

Any help would be great!

Moving Cursor From One Part Of The Desktop To Click On A Button On The Other Side Of The D
Is there any code availabe that will guide the cursor across the screen from one button to the next and then click on the button?. In other words the cursor is over one button and then must move across to click another button. Don't know if VB.net is capable of this...most code seems to relate to background procedures and functions.

Would be grateful for any advice.

Thanks,
Niall

Edited by - Niallc on 1/17/2004 6:50:54 PM

In Vb.net From 1 Textbox To Another Textbox Moving By Pressing Enter
as in vb6.0 we r write code in textbox keypress event as follow to move from textbox1 to textbox2.

if keyascii = 13 then
textbox2.setfocus
endif

so above same task i want to do in VB.net
Please help me to solve it

Thank you

Textbox Cursor Pos
If a cursor is in the middle of a string (in a textbox).. and a user presses the up or down arrow keys.. the cursor jumps one character to the left or right accordingly..

Is there a way to disable this??

Textbox Cursor
I am new to VB so need some heklp. I have a form with a number of commands buttons and textboxs. I want the cursor to display in the TEXTBOX at run time but it appears to be located on one of the COMMAND BUTTONS. How can I force the CURSOR to display in the TEXTBOX at runtime?

About A Cursor In A Textbox ...
I use this code to accept only given letters into a text box,(locked = true), but the cursor doesnt move to the end of the string im typing, and i'd like it did

Private Sub txtInput_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
If KeyAscii = Asc("a") Or KeyAscii = Asc("g") Then
txtInput = txtInput & Chr(KeyAscii)
End If
End Sub

TextBox Cursor
I would like to have that texbox cursor like in MS-DOS mode. Any way to do this?

Textbox Cursor Help
hi.current have 5 textbox in a form.how to set the cursor if pointed to textbox will display color to the textbox ??

thanks for help.

Cursor In The Textbox
I don't want cursor pointing/flashing in any of the textbox. How to do that?

Textbox Cursor Help
I have a textbox that already has text typed into it that the user has to finish. The thing is when ever you start the program the cursor is at the start of the text box and not at the end of the words that are in the textbox. So is there any way for the cursor to start after the words.

Thanks

Oh and can someone resolve one of my other problems its at this thread http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=487781
As i was helped but got stuck

Thanks Again

Jamie

Textbox Cursor
Been trying to find a way of changing the size of the cursor in a text box
Is there a simple way of doing this

I have a special Inkeys routhine I wrote for Textboxes.

Would like to change size of the cursor in what I call the edit mode.

Getting Cursor Pos In Textbox....possible??
hi,

i want to know whether is it possible to get the cursor position inside a textbox.....

what i mean is that.....i want to know after which(or maybe before which) character inside the textbox is the cursor positioned........

for eg: suppose that text1 contains "ABCDEF", can i now figure out where the cursor is positioned .i.e. before or after which character??

is this possible.......please help me out.....

regds,
ashay