"Dirk Goldgar" wrote:
[Quoted Text] > "dhstein" <dhstein[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E75CFFC1-18DC-4D76-AB43-98DF1F09AD11[ at ]microsoft.com...
> >I want to show a button that the user will click and get a textbox to enter
> > one item. Then when he hits return, the action will take place. Is that
> > a
> > Combo Control or is there some better one. Also, which event would I use
> > (xxxControlName_Click-Or_What) ? Also, I'm confused about when I have
> > to
> > deal with the focus on events. Any help with any or all of these
> > questions
> > is appreciated. Thanks.
>
>
> It sounds to me like you need two controls, a command button and a text box,
> or else a command button that calls the InputBox function to request the
> user's input. If I understand what you want, you could do it either way.
>
> If you use two controls, you could have the text box be invisible until the
> code in the command button's Click event shows it and sets the focus to it.
> Then you could use the AfterUpdate event of the text box to execute your
> action, and the Exit event of the text box to hide the text box again. (You
> show and hide a control by setting its Visible property to True or False, as
> desired.)
>
> Alternatively, you could just have the command button with no text box, but
> call the InputBox function in the button's Click event procedure to get the
> user's input, then act on it. That would look like this:
>
> '----- start of example code ----
> Private Sub cmdYourButton_Click()
>
> Dim strInput As String
>
> strInput = InputBox("Enter something, please:")
>
> If Len(strInput) = 0 Then
> ' The user entered nothing; act appropriately.
> Else
> ' The user's entry is in strInput. Do something with it.
> End If
>
> End Sub
> '----- end of example code ----
>
> --
> Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP
> www.datagnostics.com
>
> (please reply to the newsgroup)
>
> Dirk,
I'm going to work with your example - since I'm just learning it might
take me a little while, but I wanted to thank you for your very thorough and
informative response.
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