Capturing Text from text box with Enter

[Fred Buffington]

I have the following code snippet.
I can get text from it just fine, but I need to
capture it after the user presses enter.
It's just in the Test stage, that's why the msgbox.

SUB enterKey()
CONTROL ADD TEXTBOX, hDlg, %id_Company, "", 68, 17, 42, 12, %ES_WANTRETURN, %WS_EX_LEFT CALL EnterKeyCallBack
CONTROL SET FOCUS hDlg,%Id_Company
END SUB

CALLBACK FUNCTION EnterKeyCallBack
CONTROL GET TEXT hDlg, %ID_Company TO key$
'IF %IDOK AND LEN(key$) THEN
IF len(key$)=6 THEN
MSGBOX key$
END IF
END FUNCTION

[Enoch S Ceshkovsky]

you can get the on change messages sent to the textbox, but not the key as its pressed without subclassing that control.
lance posted an excellent example on this awhile back.

the wmsg& you are interested in is wm_char. wparam& holds the ascii value of the key pressed.


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