Visual Basic Electric Billing program

[Jessie Pelenio]

Hello friends. I am Jessie from the Philippines. Friends my problem is how to restrict my textbox so that the users cannot encode a letter.

[Killer42]

Hello friends. I am Jessie from the Philippines. Friends my problem is how to restrict my textbox so that the users cannot encode a letter.

This has been covered in a couple of recent posts here. But probably your simplest solution is to use a Masked Edit control, which allows you to control the format of the input.

Otherwise, you can filter out the keys you don't want by intercepting them in the KeyDown event procedure.

[jamesd0142]

Code may be slightly incorrect but the idea is here...

on form keypress function,

if e.keychar() <> "0" | "1" | "2".......| "9" then
msgbox("please only use digits")
end if

[QVeen72]

Hi,

Write this code in KeyPress Event of textbox :

[code=vb]
Private Sub TextBox1_KeyPre ss(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows. Forms.KeyPressE ventArgs) Handles TextBox1.KeyPre ss
If IsNumeric(e.Key Char) Then
e.Handled = False
Else
e.Handled = True
End If
End Sub
[/code]


REgards
Veena

[Luzuko]

Hi ,

i just want to thank you for the piece of code i got from you.
it's working perfectly on VB 2005 controls, however we're building our controls using Microsoft expression-Blend(user interface) and then program the user interface via Vb 2005. Now the problem is that the keypressed event doesn't show when we use the code on our User interface. Do you know any other event we can use for that code.

[QVeen72]

Hi,

You can check in Changed Event of the textbox, it fires whenever you add/edit/delete anything in a textbox, maybe you may have to modify a bit.

Regards
Veena