character recognition

[HillyBilly]

I am making a small and very simple game that is ment to help children learn to recognise letters. I have come to a stop as I have 3 text fields. When something is entered into the first field, the program will set focus to the next text field.

The problem is when the child tries to delete a character from a previous field as the focus is already set to the next text field. I want it to delete the character from the previous field when the backspace bar is hit. Any suggestion how this might be done?

[tlhintoq]

Override the Keypress event in textbox2.
When a key is pressed, have that method affect the text in textbox1

[HillyBilly]

I'm really new still to vb so what is the code for pressed.

If "" = Chr(8)

this is what I got so far but I'm not sure what to put in the ""

[tlhintoq]

huh?

Show us the code you are actually using.

[HillyBilly]

This is the code that is in textbox2

        txtsecond.CharacterCasing = CharacterCasing.Upper
        txtsecond.MaxLength = 1
        txtthird.Focus()
        If [U](missing code)[/U]  = Chr(8) And txtsecond.TextLength = 0 Then
            txtfirst.Clear()
        End If

[tlhintoq]

in the line at the start of the sub (that you didn't show) is an arguement for the keypress. You get the information of *which* key was pressed out of that argument. How about updating the code you posted to include the entire method including the KeyPressArgs e portion?

If you start typing...

if ( e.

After you hit the period Intellisense will show you the visible methods and variable of the KeyPressArgs e - one of them should be the KeyChar or KeyCode ... something like that ... that you can use.