I do a use the textbox name with out typing it

i am trying to take the texbox name and then send it to another procedure without typing the name of the textbox from the leave event of the textbox

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kageg wrote:
i am trying to take the texbox name and then send it to another procedure without typing the name of the textbox from the leave event of the textbox

How about a sample of what you are trying to do You question is not very clear. If you are trying to assign something from a textbox,like the text in the textbox, to another procedure, you will have to reference the Textbox1.Text in the other procedure:

MyotherValue = Textbox1.Text

Is that what you are wanting to do

james

aka:Trucker

i want to remove S631 from the code

Private Sub S631_Leave(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles S631.Leave

Dim nu As String

Dim na As String

na = "S631"(the name of the textbox)

nu = S631.Text

Module1.AdSt(nu, na)

End Sub

The sender variable contains a reference to the control, which raised the event, that's a textbox in your case:

Dim nu As String
Dim na As String

Dim textBox As TextBox = DirectCast(sender, TextBox).Name
na = textBox.Name
nu = textBox.Text
Module1.AdSt(nu, na)

Andrej

im getting this error how do i get round it

Error 1 Value of type 'String' cannot be converted to 'System.Windows.Forms.TextBox'.

You want to ensure that you are setting the text property

Textbox1.text = "sdsdsdsd"

not

Textbox1= "sdsdsdsd"

Dim textBox As TextBox = DirectCast(sender, TextBox).Name

is where the error is occuring

This will fail as your trying to assign a string to a textbox, breaking it down into two steps should help.

Dim textBox As TextBox = DirectCast(sender, TextBox)
textBox.Name = sender.name

Public Class Form1

Private Sub TextBox1_Leave(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _

Handles TextBox1.Leave, TextBox2.Leave

Dim someboxtext As String = CStr((CallByName(sender, "Text", CallType.Get)))

MsgBox(CStr((CallByName(sender, "Name", CallType.Get))) & someboxtext)

End Sub

End Class

i Think i am missing something when you say sender what do you mean

Normally when you create an event handler say for a windows forms application event there are two parameters - normally the first is sender as object and the second is some kind of EventArgs.

Some examples are

Private Sub TextBox1_TextChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TextBox1.TextChanged

End Sub

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click,Button2Click

End Sub

The sender is actually identifying which control is initiating this call. As you can hook up the same event to multiple controls or events. So in the 2nd example you could use sender to determine where button1 or button2 was the control which caused the event method to be executed.

Thanks for the help had to textbox = DirectCast(sender, TextBox) after the dim to get it work

Private Sub S631_Leave(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles S631.Leave

Dim nu As String

Dim na As String

Dim textbox As TextBox

textbox = DirectCast(sender, TextBox)

na = textbox.Name

nu = textbox.Text

Module1.AdSt(nu, na)

end sub

I'mSorry, had a typo when pasting the code - I forgot to remove .Name from the DirectCast line. Glad you figured it out yourself.

Andrej