'Auto tab' from fields

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The situation:
I have several fields that I would like to autotab out of following a certain number of keystrokes. example: time field (short time) in the form of 12:12. the mask places the colon. After 4 key strokes I would like to tab to next field. The next field is a numerical field but can only have 3 digits in it. After entering 3 digits, I would like to auto tab to next field.

A friend (who was looking at my program) asked if this was possible. I saw a FAQ on how to auto tab out of a text field, but I haven't been able to figure out the code to do it with a numerical field or a time field.

many thanks in advance

Shawn

 

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Hi there

on the KeyUp or the KeyPress events of each text box, you need to check the length of the text it contains. Although isn't 12:12 actually five keystrokes??

Anyways in the KeyUp event for example you would have something like

If len(textfield.text) = 5 then
nextfield.setfocus
end if

And so on and so forth

Hope this helps

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