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GL-DSHS - 22 Sep 2008 20:00 GMT

In VS 2005, textboxes that are not long enough to display all of their text
data will automatically scroll as you reach the right edge of the textbox,
and let you continue entering text, scrolling the leftmost part of the text
off the left side of the textbox. This is Good.
But
When you tab out of the textbox, it keeps displaying the Right-Most part of
the text, rather than re-adjusting the text (snap back) so that the Left-Most
part is displayed.

Is this really the way that VS 2005 TextBoxes are designed? How can I make
them "snap back" after the user tabs or mouses out of the textbox?

Thanks for any help.
-Gary

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GL-DSHS - 26 Sep 2008 19:31 GMT

I found a work-around. I was hoping for a general setting, but could not
find one. I had to deal with each textbox individually:

Use LostFocus event handler, include all TextBoxes in question:
Sub txtTitle_LostFocus (ByVal sender As Object, _ ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) _
Handles txtTitle.LostFocus, _
txtFName.LostFocus, _ etc
DirectCast(sender,TextBox).SelectionStart = 0
DirectCast(sender,TextBox).SelectionLength = 0
End Sub

> In VS 2005, textboxes that are not long enough to display all of their text
> data will automatically scroll as you reach the right edge of the textbox,
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> Thanks for any help.
> -Gary

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Jeff Johnson - 07 Oct 2008 20:09 GMT

>I found a work-around. I was hoping for a general setting, but could not
> find one. I had to deal with each textbox individually:

You could have derived from TextBox and overridden OnLostFocus to get this
behavior and then used this new class for all your text boxes.

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