Press Enter to move to next control

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I have a few TextBox on the WinForm  I would like the focus to move to the next control when Enter key is pressed  Whenever a textbox gains control  it will also select the text  so that any editing will replace the current one   What is the best way to do this

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You can put a KeyPress handler on your TextBoxes  and see which key was used   To handle the text selection  put a handler on the GotFocus event   You may also want to consider how to  or if you need to  handle multi-line TextBoxes

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This may help   private void textBox1 KeyDown object sender  KeyEventArgs e                  Detect the KeyEventArg s key enumerated constant             if  e KeyCode    Keys Enter                MessageBox Show  You pressed enter  Good job

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Tab as Enter  create a user control which inherits textbox  override the KeyPress method   If the user presses enter you can either call SendKeys Send   TAB    or System Windows Forms Control SelectNextControl    Note you can achieve the same using the KeyPress event   Focus Entire text  Again  via override or events  target the GotFocus event and then call TextBox Select method

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A couple of code examples in C  using SelectNextControl   The first moves to the next control when ENTER is pressed       private void Control KeyUp  object sender  KeyEventArgs e                 if   e KeyCode    Keys Enter      e KeyCode    Keys Return                          this SelectNextControl   Control sender  true  true  true  true                      The second uses the UP and DOWN arrows to move through the controls       private void Control KeyUp  object sender  KeyEventArgs e                 if  e KeyCode    Keys Up                         this SelectNextControl   Control sender  false  true  true  true                      else if  e KeyCode    Keys Down                         this SelectNextControl   Control sender  true  true  true  true                      See MSDN SelectNextControl Method

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Try to use    SendKeys Send   TAB

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private void txt invoice KeyDown object sender  KeyEventArgs e                if  e KeyCode    Keys Enter              txt date Focus               private void txt date KeyDown object sender  KeyEventArgs e                if  e KeyCode    Keys Enter              txt patientname Focus

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You could also write your own Control for this  in case you want to use this more often  Assuming you have multiple TextBoxes in a Grid  it would look something like this   public class AdvanceOnEnterTextBox   UserControl        TextBox  TextBox      public static readonly DependencyProperty TextProperty   DependencyProperty Register  Text   typeof String   typeof AdvanceOnEnterTextBox   null       public static readonly DependencyProperty InputScopeProperty   DependencyProperty Register  InputScope   typeof InputScope   typeof AdvanceOnEnterTextBox   null         public AdvanceOnEnterTextBox                  TextBox   new TextBox             TextBox KeyDown    customKeyDown          Content    TextBox                    lt summary gt          Text for the TextBox          lt  summary gt      public String Text               get   return  TextBox Text            set    TextBox Text   value                     lt summary gt          Inputscope for the Custom Textbox          lt  summary gt      public InputScope InputScope               get   return  TextBox InputScope            set    TextBox InputScope   value                void customKeyDown object sender  KeyEventArgs e                if   e Key Equals Key Enter   return           var element     TextBox sender  Parent as AdvanceOnEnterTextBox          if  element    null                        int currentElementPosition     Grid element Parent  Children IndexOf element               try                                  Jump to the next AdvanceOnEnterTextBox  assuming  that Labels are inbetween                     AdvanceOnEnterTextBox   Grid element Parent  Children ElementAt currentElementPosition   2   Focus                              catch  Exception                                   Close Keypad if this was the last AdvanceOnEnterTextBox                   AdvanceOnEnterTextBox   Grid element Parent  Children ElementAt currentElementPosition   IsEnabled   false                    AdvanceOnEnterTextBox   Grid element Parent  Children ElementAt currentElementPosition   IsEnabled   true

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protected override bool ProcessCmdKey ref Message msg  Keys keyData                if  keyData     Keys Enter                         SendKeys Send  quot  TAB  quot                       return base ProcessCmdKey ref msg  keyData          goto the design form and View- gt  tab as like picture shows  Order then you ordered all the control That s it

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In a KeyPress event  if the user pressed Enter  call   SendKeys Send   TAB      Nicest way to implement automatically selecting the text on receiving focus is to create a subclass of TextBox in your project with the following override   Protected Overrides Sub OnGotFocus ByVal e As System EventArgs      SelectionStart   0     SelectionLength   Text Length     MyBase OnGotFocus e  End Sub   Then use this custom TextBox in place of the WinForms standard TextBox on all your Forms

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