same event for series of textboxes?

[Jesper F]

I have several forms with 40+ textboxes on each.
The data in them is all single digit numbers in each text
box with no exceptions.

What I'd like to do is for the focus/cursor to
automatically move to the next textbox when one digit has
been entered. This would speed up entering data as no
tab/mouse use is needed when needing to move the the next
textbox.

It's a lot of work to manually code the keypress event for
all the control and the code for this would be very
similar for all the controls.
Is there a way to do this in a more clever way? Maybe
something with withevents? Code working across all the
controls in the same event? I'm not sure.
Thanks for any input.

 

[Graham Mandeno]

Hi Jesper

The easiest way to do this involves no event code at all. Simply give each
of your textboxes an InputMask that will accept a single character/digit,
and set its AutoTab property to Yes/True.

Then, as soon as a digit is entered, focus will move to the next box in the
tab order.

 

[Jesper F]

The easiest way to do this involves no event code at
all. Simply give each

of your textboxes an InputMask that will accept a single character/digit,
and set its AutoTab property to Yes/True.

Off course! Brilliant and simply! Thanks a lot.

 

[Graham Mandeno]

For anyone who is listening, this is a classic example of why it's a good
idea to describe *why* you want to do something, as well as saying *what*
you want to do.

If Jesper had simply asked how to call the same parameterized event code
from many different controls, then the answer whould have provided a much
less satisfactory solution.