I have 3 textboxes and 3 labels and using the keypress event i can get it to dynamically change the text in the labels correct except the first letter does not show up until i press the second letter and the last letter does not show up until i press another key.

Also on the formatting issues the third format where I use a , in the formatting it shows up like this in the label.text as ,Phanto until i switch to another textbox and press a key then it will show up as Pantom, the m shows up and the comma goes tot he correct place and if i press another key then the C in coder shows up but the o in coder is still not there until i press another key.

the follow is the code im using.

Public Class Form1    'Declare the varibles     Dim FirstText As String     Dim MiddleText As String     Dim LastText As String     Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load         'Initializes the varibles         FirstText = ""         MiddleText = ""         LastText = ""         Label5.Text = FirstText         Label6.Text = MiddleText         Label7.Text = LastText     End Sub     Private Sub TextBox1_KeyPress(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.KeyPress         'Combines all the data into a string         FirstText = TextBox1.Text + " " + TextBox2.Text + " " + TextBox3.Text         MiddleText = TextBox3.Text + " " + TextBox1.Text + " " + TextBox2.Text         LastText = TextBox3.Text + ", " + TextBox1.Text + " " + TextBox2.Text                  'Fills the label.text fields         Label5.Text = FirstText         Label6.Text = MiddleText         Label7.Text = LastText     End Sub     Private Sub TextBox2_KeyPress(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) Handles TextBox2.KeyPress         FirstText = TextBox1.Text + " " + TextBox2.Text + " " + TextBox3.Text         MiddleText = TextBox3.Text + " " + TextBox1.Text + " " + TextBox2.Text         LastText = TextBox3.Text + ", " + TextBox1.Text + " " + TextBox2.Text         Label5.Text = FirstText         Label6.Text = MiddleText         Label7.Text = LastText     End Sub     Private Sub TextBox3_KeyPress(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) Handles TextBox3.KeyPress         FirstText = TextBox1.Text + " " + TextBox2.Text + " " + TextBox3.Text         MiddleText = TextBox3.Text + " " + TextBox1.Text + " " + TextBox2.Text         LastText = TextBox3.Text + ", " + TextBox1.Text + " " + TextBox2.Text         Label5.Text = FirstText         Label6.Text = MiddleText         Label7.Text = LastText     End Sub End Class

With the combobox i really have a problem but that can be sorted out after i get the dynamic text updating to work properly.

anyhelp will be greatfull I looked for a change or onchange event within the textbox but found none, i also tryied textchanged event and it did not work at all.

BTW i use vb.net 2k3,2k5,2k8 and 2k10


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The Phantom

The problems you are having are because you are using the wrong Event to read the Text property of the TextBox Control.
The KeyPress Event occurs BEFORE the value of the pressed key reaches the TextBox, that is the reason for the Event, it allows you to intercept keystrokes and modify them if necessary before the data is entered into the TextBox. An example of why you would use this is where you want to prevent letters from being inserted into a field that should only contain numbers.
Use the TextChanged Event to read the updated contents of your TextBox.


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