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Keypress event for textbox created at runtime.

I'm using the C# code below to create a button at runtime and run an event for it.
How can I create a textbox at run time with a keypress event to make sure it only accepts alphanumeric keys?

        private void cmdPrime_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Button b1 = new Button();
            b1.Text = "Click me";
            b1.Left = 50;
            b1.Top = 50;
            b1.Text = "Enter the number below which you want all primes";
            b1.Click += new EventHandler(FindThePrimes);//EventHandler is pre-defined delegate.  Right click and select goto definition
            //Without the delegate I could not trigger an event for button added at runtime
            this.Controls.Add(b1);
            TextBox t1 = new TextBox();
            t1+=new 
            
        }
private void FindThePrimes(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Stopwatch s = new Stopwatch();
            s.Start();
            GetListOfPrimesFromBeginning a = new GetListOfPrimesFromBeginning();
            a.PrintList(800000);
            GetListOfPrimesFromEnd b = new GetListOfPrimesFromEnd();
            b.PrintList(1000000, 800001);
 s.Stop();
            Environment.Exit(0);
        }

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Misha

Try this code:

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Button b1 = new Button();
            b1.Text = "Click me";
            b1.Left = 50;
            b1.Size = new Size(100,25);
            
            b1.Top = 50;
            b1.Text = "Enter the number below which you want all primes";
            b1.Click += new EventHandler(FindThePrimes);//EventHandler is pre-defined delegate.  Right click and select goto definition
            //Without the delegate I could not trigger an event for button added at runtime
            this.Controls.Add(b1);
            TextBox t1 = new TextBox();
            t1.Left = 150;
            t1.Top = 150;
            t1.Size = new Size(100, 25);
            t1.KeyPress += new KeyPressEventHandler(TextBox1_KeyPress);
            this.Controls.Add(t1);
            
        }

        private void TextBox1_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e)
        {
            e.Handled = !char.IsLetterOrDigit(e.KeyChar);
        }

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If you wnat to allow user to input symbols '.' or ',' for double, you also can set up it in TextBox1_KeyPress method.

Norie

You can use this to add the textbox and the KeyPress handler.

        TextBox t1 = new TextBox();
        this.Controls.Add(t1);
        t1.KeyPress += new KeyPressEventHandler(keypressed);

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To prevent anything other than alphanumeric you can try this.

    private void keypressed(Object o, KeyPressEventArgs e)
    {
        if (((e.Key < Key.NumPad0)||(e.Key > Key.NumPad9))&&((e.Key < Key.A)||(e.Key > Key.Z)))
       {
           e.Handled = true;
       }

    }

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AlHal2

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In the FindThePrimes module I want to pass the value entered in the text box instead of 800000. How do I do this if the textbox is created at runtime?

Norie

Try naming the textbox when you create it and then use this.Controls(textboxname) to refer to it in FindThePrimes.

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