Set focus on keypress (newb)

Okay guys, I'm looking for ways on how to set focus to a textbox if I press a key (namely, the backslash character). Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

You mean, like if you type in a key in a textbox, then it will add that keypressed value into another textbox.

Here:

This code will look for the ASCII characters 0 to 120. It will then input the value into textbox2. Although, textbox1 is not selected then it will not appear the keypressed in textbox2.

To make it check the backslash key, just delete the For loop and replace the I with the ASCII chr.

~Skeletron

 

What I mean is, if I press the backslash key while the form is in focus, then it will set the focus to the search box.

 

What does focus mean?


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Newb Question.

 

Focus is when the cursor of a TextBox is set to that TextBox.
Like when you press Tab, the focus switches to the next Label/Button/TextBox

 

There, you have to set keyprewiew to true for it to work. If you do this in a textbox then you don't.

Sorry for the wait, I was busy with finishing up my semi-OCR.

 

OOOOHHHHHH so that's what it means!

 

doesn't work sorry Skeletron

EDIT: This works, I guess I'll just make em press tab instead

Code:

    Private Sub Form1_KeyPress(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) Handles Me.KeyPress
        If e.KeyChar = Chr(Keys.Tab) Then
            txtSearch.Focus()
        End If
    End Sub

 

Did you enable keypreview like I asked you to. And, that does work, when the textbox is not focused, but only on the form.

If it does not work for you then you need to add some extra code for it to work.

Oh, and it is this / not this \ one. The \ slash has a different chr then /.

 

I was asking for backslash =/