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>Please describe the exact behavior you want to see.
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>Thanks,
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>Dave
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>>I have some code I want to run in the keypress event of a textbox. In the event code I have a dodefault() but it doesn't appear to update the value property of the control with the key that was pressed to get into the event code.
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>>When does the value of the key that was pressed get added to the value property of the control?


What I was trying to do was create an autocomplete textbox that used a database for lookup values. A combobox wasn't really appropriate because it was not a validated field. The textbox was both a tool to find records as well as a data entry field. I solved my problem by using the nkeycode parameter, adding it to the current value property of the control in order to get the string I needed to search for in the database.

I still wonder however, if you always have to use syntax like:

this.value+chr(nKeyCode)

in the keypress event of a textbox in order to get the current value of the control.

It seems you should be able to issue a dodefault() and then just reference the value property of the control. But issueing a dodefault() seems to duplicate the last key pressed in the value property.


In anycase I got what I was after.