[lazarus] TEdit control lacks a OnKeyPress event

Andrew Johnson aj_genius at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 24 10:34:39 EDT 2002


On 24 Sep 2002 08:38:00 -0500
"Tony Maro" <tonym at nlisc.com> wrote:

>MMm - well if I had a OnKeyUp then I could do the same thing I did for
>my combobox autocompletes and adjust the .text after the char is placed
>in it, as you describe.  However, I tried adding these to the
>declaration and recompiling and the events didn't appear in the IDE - I
>must have done something wrong.

It worked for me.. so make sure you added them to the Published section of 
TEdit. And do a make clean all. Other wise I do not know what you're doing 
wrong...

As for the GTK problem.. nobody implemented updating the GTK message with 
the new value.. So I tried.. but I am running into a few problems. 1.) 
someone switched it to use DeliverPostMessage.. BAD idea. this will mean 
that the calling routine will get closed before it ever getes a response, 
therefore the change code is never run, because there wasn't a change yet. 
2.) If the value in question is a ASCII key 1-31 it has to be translated 
back to its GTK value, and there is no such routine yet. And if it GTK 
Win32, any value has to be mapped back into its GTK value, because its 
String value is broken. I may just copy the routine to convert a GTKKey into 
its char value, and invert it to do the opposite. If I can do this, and 
switch KeyDown and KeyPress to use Object.Dispatch instead, this should make 
changing the key value for either of these two work.

Andrew


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