TextBox - what is going wrong?

[M O J O]

Hi,

I have a TextBox on my form.

I capture the KeyDown event and examines the e.KeyValue - that is, I
examine it like this: dim chr = chr(KeyValue).

This seams to work ok .... well almost.

In Denmark we have some special characters like this one (hope you can
see it): "ø", which is a circle with a line through it.

The text box writes the special characters without any problem, but the
chr(e.KeyValue) shows a strange character and e.KeyCOde & e.KeyData
writes OemQuotes.

What is going on here? Do I have to set some kind of localize info??

Thanks!!

M O J O

[Jeremy Cowles]

Re: TextBox - what is going wrong?

"M O J O" <mojo@____no___ _spa_m___newweb solutions.dk> wrote in message
news:3F16B9B7.4 080404@____no__ __spa_m___newwe bsolutions.dk.. .[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I have a TextBox on my form.
>
> I capture the KeyDown event and examines the e.KeyValue - that is, I
> examine it like this: dim chr = chr(KeyValue).
>
> This seams to work ok .... well almost.
>
> In Denmark we have some special characters like this one (hope you can
> see it): "ø", which is a circle with a line through it.
>
> The text box writes the special characters without any problem, but the
> chr(e.KeyValue) shows a strange character and e.KeyCOde & e.KeyData
> writes OemQuotes.
>
> What is going on here? Do I have to set some kind of localize info??
>[/color]

Wierd, it works for me (ø = ALT+0248) - when I key it into a text box, it
works with the following code just fine (KeyPress):

Debug.WriteLine (e.KeyChar)
If e.KeyChar = Chr(248) Then
MsgBox(e.KeyCha r)
End If

But since I don't have a keyboard that has that symbol, I can't test with
key-down... So I guess this is no help. Sorry.

Jeremy

[Armin Zingler]

Re: TextBox - what is going wrong?

"M O J O" <mojo@____no___ _spa_m___newweb solutions.dk> schrieb[color=blue]
> I have a TextBox on my form.
>
> I capture the KeyDown event and examines the e.KeyValue - that is, I
> examine it like this: dim chr = chr(KeyValue).
>
> This seams to work ok .... well almost.
>
> In Denmark we have some special characters like this one (hope you
> can see it): "ø", which is a circle with a line through it.
>
> The text box writes the special characters without any problem, but
> the chr(e.KeyValue) shows a strange character and e.KeyCOde &
> e.KeyData writes OemQuotes.
>
> What is going on here? Do I have to set some kind of localize
> info??[/color]

Keydown is used to receive keys, not chars. Use Keypress to evaluate chars.
Keyvalues are not character values. For example, pressing the "A" key fires
keydown with keycode = Keys.A, but the resulting char might be "a", "A", or
chr(1) depending on the state of the shift and ctrl keys. Another example:
function keys. They produce keydown events but no keypress events because
they are not translated to chars.

Armin