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Change Monitor

Is there any simple ways to monitor a forms control and all of its subcontrols for changes made to the containing text.
Ex. A form has a tabcontrol containing multiple textboxes. If any one of the textboxes values change, I would like to set a boolean variable accordingly. Is there any approaches that are suggested to this???????

Thanks,
Kendal

NipNFriar_Tuck

You can use the OnChange event, which can be set through the properties on the form or you can add it... you can also forward the event... for example

MyForm has YourForm has YourText....

public class MyForm : From {
private bool hasTextChanged = false;

public MyForm() {
Form YourForm = new YourForm();
YourForm.OnTextChanged += new EventHandler( YourForm_TextChanged );
}
private void YourForm_TextChanged( object sender, EventArgs args ) {
hasTextChanged = true;
}
}

HTH

gvector1

ASKER

Doesn't the ontextchanged event only get triggered if the text property of the form is changed?????? My specific incident has a tabcontrol. If any of the textboxes, belonging to the tabcontrol, text properties changes I would like to set the boolean variable. Because of your suggestion, I though of having a single event and pointing each textboxes textchanged event to that one event. Do you have any other suggestions??????

Thanks,
Kendal

NipNFriar_Tuck

That is where I was leading to... Basically when you create the tabcontrol you could register for the event at that time... so the same event handler would be listening to all the possible events for the textchange.

gvector1

ASKER

Wouldn't I still have to point each textbox's textchanged event to that one event?????????

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gvector1

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Yes, so for instance. On the form designer, for each textbox, I set the OnTextChange event to actually trigger the MyEventHandler method. Is that correct?????

NipNFriar_Tuck

Yes, I believe that that should work...

gvector1

ASKER

Thanks for the assistance.
The points are yours.

Thanks,
Kendal