How to limit a textbox input strlength

[taximania]

I know it should be easy but I just can't figure it out.
I want to put a limit of ten chars in a textbox field ?

[Cableguy]

You can use my password textbox library, wich can be used as a normal textbox with a few extras....
Check the samples and tis

[agraham]

This works but has the side effect of moving the insertion point to the beginning of the textbox on the eleventh character for reasons that I don't understand.


The length is tested at nine as the KeyPress event occurs before "key" is added to the string and there seems to be no way of preventing it being added.

Sub TextBox1_KeyPress (key)
	If StrLength(Textbox1.Text) >=9 Then
	Textbox1.Text= SubString(Textbox1.Text,0,9)
	End If
End Sub

[agraham]

I missed the obvious - this works nicely, the check for key >31 allows backspace editing of a full length textbox value.

Sub TextBox1_KeyPress (key)
	If StrLength( textbox1.Text) >=10 Then
		If Asc(key)>31 Then
			Textbox1.IgnoreKey
		End If
	End If
End Sub

[agraham]

An improvement on my first method. I still don't understand why the insertion point moves but this code resets it. One advantage of this method is that if the user pastes in a string longer than the required length then if he tries to edit it the string is truncated which would not happen with the "ignorekey" method.

Sub TextBox1_KeyPress (key)
    If StrLength( textbox1.Text) >=9 Then	
        If Asc(key)>31 Then
            Textbox1.Text= SubString(Textbox1.Text,0,9)
            Textbox1.SelectionStart = 9
        End If
    End If
End Sub

EDIT: The following is even better for user editing as the insertion point doesn't do unexpected things

Sub TextBox1_KeyPress (key)
    If StrLength( textbox1.Text) >=9 Then	
        If Asc(key)>31 Then
            ss = Textbox1.SelectionStart
            Textbox1.Text= SubString(Textbox1.Text,0,9)
            Textbox1.SelectionStart = ss
        End If
    End If
End Sub

EDIT AGAIN!: I forgot that B4PPC 5.50 can now evaluate more complex logical conditions so the following is a little more elegant!

Sub TextBox1_KeyPress (key) 
	If StrLength(textbox1.Text) >=9 AND Asc(key) > 31 Then	
		s = textbox1.SelectionStart
		Textbox1.Text= SubString(Textbox1.Text,0,9)
		textbox1.SelectionStart = s
	End If
End Sub

[taximania]

Many thanks, it works a treat