How does this work

[Martin Francom]

Paul,
   How does this new feature work.  And how is it intended to be used?

0000646: [New Feature Request] Allow FireTextBox to send keypress notifications to the part form (Paul Squires) - closed

Will this capture and notify that a FunctionKey ie:  F1  has been pressed?

How about Alt-Key combinations?

[Paul Squires]

This was discussed in http://www.planetsquires.com/protect/forum/index.php?topic=2084.msg16878#msg16878

Here is an example to trap the ENTER key and the F1 key:

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Function FORM1_FIRETEXTBOX1_FIRETEXTBOX_MSG_KEYPRESS( ControlIndex As Long, _
                                                      hWndForm As Dword, _
                                                      hWndControl As Dword, _
                                                      idTextControl As Long, _
                                                      pKeyPressNotify As Dword _
                                                      ) As Long

   Local pKey As FIRETEXTBOX_KEYPRESS Ptr

   ' Assign the incoming notification pointer
   pKey = pKeyPressNotify
   
   
   Select Case @pKey.nWinMsg

      Case %WM_CHAR
         If @pKey.nKeyPress = %VK_RETURN Then
            ' We will process the key here
            ? "ENTER pressed"
            ' Cancel the FireTextBox from processing the key
            Function = %TRUE
         End If

      Case %WM_KEYDOWN
         If @pKey.nKeyPress = %VK_F1 Then
            ? "F1 pressed"
            ' Cancel the FireTextBox from processing the key
            Function = %TRUE
         End If
           
   End Select


End Function


[Martin Francom]

Paul,
    Is there a way to run a form through a conversion program that would convert all TEXTBOX 's to  FIRETEXTBOX 's.   I have some old forms and there are hundreds of TEXTBOX 's on those forms.  It sure would be nice if there was a way to automate the process of changing them to FIRETEXTBOX 's