uppercase textbox using interactivechange or form's keypreview fails

[andremara]

Hi,
I have a textbox on a form I would like uppercased as its being typed. I tried 2 solutions, the first one being obvious - put This.Value=upper(This.Value) inside the interactiveChange event of the textbox. This didn't work because it results in the cursor being positioned at the beginning of the textbox.
So now I'm using a form's Keypress property to uppercase keystrokes thinking that foxpro will then pass the keystroke event on to the object in the form that generated the keypress, but that doesn't seem to be happening.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Andre

 

[Mike Lewis]

The easiest solution is to set the textbox's Format property to ! (that's an exclamation mark).

Mike

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[GriffMG]

I'm thinking he MUST be talking about an EditBox, because there is no built in formatting for them?

Otherwise, Mike has hit the nail on the head.

Regards

Griff
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[IlyaRabyy]

Even if it is indeed an Edit Box control - it does have the Format property. At least, this is what VFP9's Help says...

Regards,

Ilya

 

[Mike Lewis]

Ilya,

In fact, an edit box does have a Format property, as you say. But the only formatting character it recognises is K ("select on entry").

But before we go too far with this discussion, perhaps Andre could confirm whether he is using a text box or an edit box in this case.

Mike

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