Re: Convenient way to parse Enter on a textbox?

[Lee <t.lee.davidson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/22/25 8:58 AM, Admin wrote:
> Greetings good people of Gambas!
>
> This should be pretty common thing in visual programming to create a program that allows user to type something in a field and 
> hit enter to make it work, send it, right? Like, in Chat clients or something.
>
> So it should be pretty easy to trace Enter key while some textbox is in focus and react to it, is it not?
>
> I have a program that has a textbox and a "send" button.
>
> But.
>
> It seems to me that even having a sub like <anything>_KeyPress() brings a lot of "entropy" in to my program. This routine seems 
> to be an event handler which "destroys" any "wait"s in the program, does not allow an interface to redraw itself before moving 
> on to some long task, and finally, it does not even work right away.
>
> For example, in my Send button Sub I call another form to appear and then do "wait 0.1" for the form to actually appear, then I 
> do other stuff. And it works. But if I call Button_Click sub from a KeyPress event of the textbox, it is ignored, debug window 
> shows a warning that there is no use to call wait while keypress is active and the new form is not shown until all the routine 
> of button_click is over.
>
> The workaround I use now is to just button.setfocus on Enter keypress and then I expect user to press enter again. So it's 
> basically two enters instead of one to send a string from a textbox. It works, but I feel stupid.
>
> I strongly believe that it should be done much, much easier since it is a common task, and that I just don't understand Gambas 
> enough.
>
> Can you please teach me the right way?
>
> Dmitry.

Just set the "Send" button's .Default property to True.
https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb.qt4/button/default


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Lee

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