Learn Visual Basic 6.0

3. Exploring the Visual Basic Toolbox

Text Boxes

1. A text box is used to display information entered at design time, by a user at run-time, or assigned within code. The displayed text may be edited.
   
   
2. Text Box Properties:
   
   

   Appearance	Selects 3-D or flat appearance.
   BorderStyle	Determines type of border.
   Font	Sets font type, style, size.
   MaxLength	Limits the length of displayed text (0 value indicates unlimited length).
   MultiLine	Specifies whether text box displays single line or multiple lines.
   PasswordChar	Hides text with a single character.
   ScrollBars	Specifies type of displayed scroll bar(s).
   SelLength	Length of selected text (run-time only).
   SelStart	Starting position of selected text (run-time only).
   SelText	Selected text (run-time only).
   Tag	Stores a string expression.
   Text	Displayed text.

   
   
3. Text Box Events:
   
   

   Change	Triggered every time the Text property changes.
   LostFocus	Triggered when the user leaves the text box. This is a good place to examine the contents of a text box after editing.
   KeyPress	Triggered whenever a key is pressed. Used for key trapping, as seen in last class.

   
   
4. Text Box Methods:
   
   

   SetFocus

   Places the cursor in a specified text box.

   
   Example
   
   txtExample.SetFocus ' moves cursor to box named txtExample

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