Copy, Cut, and Paste commands with any text box

Copy, Cut, and Paste commands with any text box

• MDesigner

  you can use the textbox Cut method to cut the selected text, so be sure to select text in the textbox, then do a Cut() method call which will store it in the clipboard.

  Me.theTextBox.Select(0, Me.theTextBox.Text.Length)

  Me.theTextBox.Cut()

  Same thing also applies for copy and paste

   

  Alternatively you could also do this to copy to clipboard:

  Clipboard.SetText(Me.theTextBox.Text)

  
  
  

• Mark Macumber

  Yes this command is also working fine. But it wont copy the selected text. It actually copies all the text in the active control.

  I appreciate your help thank you very much.

  
  

• Lejing

  Thanks for your reply.

  But if I use it like that. Then for every textbox I have to write the same code. Isn't there any general code to do that like the one I have given as an example in my original post.

  I appreciate your help.

  Vishal

  
  

• John.Doe

  well how would you expect to copy/cut/paste text from textboxes :-)

  maybe try this (untested)

  Clipboard.SetText(Me.ActiveControl.Text)

  however this will get the text for the active control, be it a command button or a groupbox or whatever control is active currently

  another way perhaps would be to check to see if the active control is a textbox, if so, then do your thing

   

  if Me.ActiveControl.GetType() Is GetType(TextBox) then

     Dim currentControl as TextBox = CType(Me.ActiveControl, TextBox)

     'copy/cut/paste from currentControl

  end if

  
  
  
• Copy, Cut, and Paste commands with any text box