Get focused

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Hi guys I'm trying to get the focused textbox so I can insert a time stamp the code below will put a timestamp into textBox1 but I dont want to define the textbox so i'm looking for something like focused.text instead of textBox1.text. Can anyone help with this Thanks. protected override bool ProcessCmdKey(ref Message msg Keys keyData) { switch (keyData) { case Keys.Control | Keys.T: var insertText = DateTime.Now.ToString(); var selectionIndex = textBox1.SelectionStart; textBox1.Text = textBox1.Text.Insert(selectionIndex insertText); textBox1.SelectionStart = selectionIndex + insertText.Length; return true; } return false; }

cory thompson · Answer

Thanks for your reply Sam What I am trying to do is My form has many textboxes and I want to type in any one of the textboxs and then by pressing Control and T it inserts a timestamp at the point of the cursor. As you can see from my code I am selecting the text in a defined textbox and then adding a time to it. thanks again.

Sam Hobbs · Answer

I do not know the details of what you need to do. Overriding ProcessCmdKey is probably more complicated than you need to do. A more object-oriented solution is probably easier to understand and implement. You could add a handler to each TextBox for a keyboared event such as KeyPress. Or you could handle the TextChanged event. If you do that for each TextBox then the handler will automatically know what TextBox it is for. Or you could create a new class derived from TextBox in which you handle one of those events. The event handler will get a sender parameter that will identify what control that the event is for. If you can be more specific about what you need to do then I can be more specific about how.