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Textbox input from a customized location

Sujay Ghosh
2/14/2008 5:07:01 AM

dotnet windows forms: Hi,

Environment : VS 2005 / .NET 2.0 / Windows XP SP2

Requirement :

class MyTextBox : TextBox
{
// more code

}

When I run the application my text box caret blinks in its usual place ( at
the left ).

I want the cursor to be X pixels from the left of the text box and hence
the user can only enter data from that location.

I tried with SelectionStart += X pixels -- it did not work

Then I pinvoke SetCaretPos(X, Y ) - showed up the caret position properly.

Problem :

Though the caret position shows up properly, when I type text within my text
box, the text is taken from the 0th location .

How can I force the user to enter data from the X th location where the
cursor is placed .

NOTE : I have handled OnPaint to do some graphics drawing inside the
textbox... dont think this has any relevance with this query ; just FYI if
something is linked up to this .

Thanks in advance .

Sujay

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Sujay Ghosh
Bangalore, INDIA

Re: Textbox input from a customized location

Bob Powell [MVP]
2/16/2008 2:45:10 PM

The textbox text will always start from the first position. You could
possibly place some dummy places into the textbox first.

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