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20 Mar 2006 9:55 PM

YYZ

Ok, I've been searching, but I can't find a quick way to implement
this...

If I have a form, and that form has a usercontrol, and that usercontrol
has many textboxes, how can I get what is the active control so that I
can use the clipboard functions on it?

Is there any way to get that information?

If not, does this mean that I have to expose an "ActiveControl"
property on the usercontrol, and update it on every gotfocus event?!?!?

Please tell me I'm missing something easy...please...

Matt

21 Mar 2006 6:42 AM

MS MVP ??? for VB.NET

Dear YYZ,

You don't have to update the ActiveControl on every gotFocus event, But you
may need to expose a property and so your form can get the existing value of
the ActiveControl from your UserControl.

more info in the following in Documentation,
ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.NETDEVFX.v20.en/CPref17/html/P_System_W
indows_Forms_ContainerControl_ActiveControl.htm

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Hope this help and welcome to reply the testing result.

Regards
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MCSE+I, MCDBA(SQL7 & SQL2K), MCSD(VB6 & .NET), MCAD(.NET)
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"YYZ" <matt.da***@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1142891730.277986.129610@t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Ok, I've been searching, but I can't find a quick way to implement
> this...
>
> If I have a form, and that form has a usercontrol, and that usercontrol
> has many textboxes, how can I get what is the active control so that I
> can use the clipboard functions on it?
>
> Is there any way to get that information?
>
> If not, does this mean that I have to expose an "ActiveControl"
> property on the usercontrol, and update it on every gotfocus event?!?!?
>
> Please tell me I'm missing something easy...please...
>
> Matt
>

21 Mar 2006 4:44 PM

YYZ

Okay, thanks for that pointer. I added my own property MyActiveControl
(bad name...just for now) and in the prop get statement on the
usercontrol I can return a reference to the activecontrol of the
usercontrol.

Thanks for the help!

Matt