Copy/Paste Keys

[Trle94]

So example i have Box1, Box2, ..., Box5. All are Textboxes
Its in row for serial key, if you dont understand i can make screen.
Is there anyway i could Copy/Paste all data from all boxes in format like Box1 - Box2 - Box3 etc? and in same way paste it in textboxes?

[dhatsah]

Not really sure about the best way to capture the key input but I would think this would put the data to the clipboard (haven't tested it)

            str1 = TextBox1.Text
            str2 = TextBox2.Text
            str3 = TextBox3.Text
            mstr = str1 + "," + str2 + "," + str3
            Clipboard.SetData(mstr, Text)

[Trle94]

It should work, but is there anyway I could make if user copy first textbox to it automatically copy all other and same with paste?

[dhatsah]

You'd need to show me what you have done already, specifically how are you handling the user wanting to copy the textbox?

[Reverend Jim]

If you want to make it dynamic then you can do it as follows. For this example create a form with four textboxes. TextBox4 will get the strings from the other three dynamically as you type.

Public Class Form1

    Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Me.Load

        AddHandler TextBox1.TextChanged, AddressOf TextChange
        AddHandler TextBox2.TextChanged, AddressOf TextChange
        AddHandler TextBox3.TextChanged, AddressOf TextChange

    End Sub

    Private Sub TextChange(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)

        TextBox4.Text = TextBox1.Text & " - " &
                        TextBox2.Text & " - " &
                        TextBox3.Text
    End Sub

End Class

[Trle94]

This is how it looks like - http://screencast.com/t/3S742kon6Y

[dhatsah]

Jims reply is probably the better solution, but if you're copying them from one text box to another on the same form then surely just

textbox5.text = textbox1.text

you might have to invalidate the control (i.e textbox5 ... textbox8) <- that might be making it more complicated than it needs to be though.

[Deep Modi]

ok,
I understand that you want to make the program such that if user hit "Ctrl + C" Key on textbox1, then it must be copy as: Textbox1-Textbox2-Textbox3-Textbox4-Textbox5 ? Am I right?
Then you can do simple thing. you can create shortcut fuction (i mean change it)

And then code is simpler:
box1 = textbox1.text
box2 = textbox2.text
box3 = textbox3.text
box4 = textbox4.text
box5 = textbox5.text
String = box1 & "-" & box2 & "-" & box3 & "-" & box4 & "-" & box5
clipboard.text = String