cursor position within a textbox

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Tim Badger - 28 Sep 2004 13:08 GMT

Hi all, need some help ' cause I just can't figure this one out. I am
trying to find which char the cursor is located at within an text box using
the arrow keys.

Thanks
TimB

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Jan Hyde - 28 Sep 2004 15:21 GMT

"Tim Badger" <tbadger@adlandsys.com>'s wild thoughts were
released on Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:08:10 -0400 bearing the
following fruit:

>Hi all, need some help ' cause I just can't figure this one out. I am
>trying to find which char the cursor is located at within an text box using
>the arrow keys.

Take a look at SelStart and SelLength

Jan Hyde (VB MVP)

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Rick Rothstein - 28 Sep 2004 16:01 GMT

> Hi all, need some help ' cause I just can't figure this
> one out. I am trying to find which char the cursor is
> located at within an text box using the arrow keys.

If your TextBox is named Text1, then

CharAfterCursor = Mid$(Text1.Text, Text1.SelStart + 1, 1)

The +1 is there because the SelStart property is zero-based and
character positions in a string are 1-based.

Rick - MVP

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VB Forum / General 2 / September 2004

cursor position within a textbox