[AccessD] textbox value is null

OK, thanks.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 12/23/2011 3:58 PM, Jim Dettman wrote:
>
>   Until the control is updated, you need to grab the value in the buffer with
> the .Text property.
>
> Jim.
>
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> Subject: [AccessD] textbox value is null
>
> I am trying to use the value of a text box I am typing into to create a
> string in another text box.
>    IOW I type 'a' in txt1 and txt2 is set to 'C:\Access\a\'.  The C:\Access
> is a constant directory
> location and I am inserting 'C:\Access\'&  txtA.Value&  '\' into txtB.
>
> However txtA.Value is NULL! until I move out of the text box (after update)
> so the string I am
> building looks like 'C:\Access\\' since a null is being inserted between the
> 'C:\Access\' and the
> '\'.  I thought I was going to use txtA.OnKeyDown etc.  No dice.  I never
> really knew about this
> behavior and don't quite know how to work around it.
>
> Any thoughts?
>