AgentSmith007
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Cut, Copy, Paste [Text Only]
OK, This one has been bugging me for awhile. I have a top-level form that has a toolbar w/ Cut, Copy, Paste buttons. Inside this form I have a series of custom controls that also could potentially have other forms inside (loaded from a .dll via reflection), ultimately ending at a textbox that might or might not have focus. I'm just trying to get this clipboard functionality working universally, regardless of what form this textbox is a control of. I've already tried doing me.form.activeform.activec
Does anyone have some code that will drill through the focus forms/controls until it ultimately ends up at the focus textbox? As ugly as it sounds, I'm ready to just make these buttons emulate Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X, and Ctrl-V !! Please help. Thanks in advance.
Does anyone have some code that will drill through the focus forms/controls until it ultimately ends up at the focus textbox? As ugly as it sounds, I'm ready to just make these buttons emulate Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X, and Ctrl-V !! Please help. Thanks in advance.
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Don't worry about re-writing your code to reflect the type only needed, I've done that, I just need to know how to check if a control has focus.
This isn't easily apparent, but there is the Control.Focused property. The reason it's not apparent is that the auto-complete doesn't show this property. You just have to know it's there.
Bob
Bob
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Hmm, well focused didn't work but either way I think I can work it out from here. Thanks for your help!
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This helps greatly. I am not, however, looking based on name and type. I guess my criteria for returning the valid control is if it passes the type check AND it has focus. Is there a property of the textbox or shared control property that lets me check if the control currently has focus?
Scott