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Hello everyone.

The name says it all. How do I indent text in an input form without it selecting text?

Here is a small script I whipped up for anybody who doesnt understand what I mean. Just run the script, and go to the bottom of the text input box and press tab to attempt to indent.

GUICreate("")
GUICtrlCreateInput("Input", 0, 0, 500, 500, 0x1404)
GUISetState()

While 1
    Select
        Case GUIGetMsg()=-3
            Exit
    EndSelect
WEnd

Oh, and the textbox is multi-line enabled.

Thanks.

EDIT

Oh, and btw, would it be better to use an editbox in the instance of a notepad like program, or should I stick with the input box?

Thanks again.

Edited by Mikeman27294
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You can try this way:

$hGUI = GUICreate("")
$idInp = GUICtrlCreateInput("Input", 0, 0, 500, 500, 0x1404)
$idDummy = GUICtrlCreateLabel("", 0, 0, 0, 0)
GUISetState()
ControlFocus("", "", $idDummy)

While 1
    Select
        Case GUIGetMsg()=-3
            Exit
    EndSelect
WEnd

Use a EditBox control if you want someting like a Notepad program.

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You can try this way:

$hGUI = GUICreate("")
$idInp = GUICtrlCreateInput("Input", 0, 0, 500, 500, 0x1404)
$idDummy = GUICtrlCreateLabel("", 0, 0, 0, 0)
GUISetState()
ControlFocus("", "", $idDummy)

While 1
    Select
        Case GUIGetMsg()=-3
            Exit
    EndSelect
WEnd

Use a EditBox control if you want someting like a Notepad program.

Br,

UEZ

Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, that did not work, as it seems to keep focus on the input part. I moved the ControlFocus line inside the while loop and that just prevented input. I will change it to an EditBox, but that will not help with using the tab to indent.

Thanks again though.

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I cannot fully understand what you want to do but is this what you looking for?

$WS_TABSTOP = 0x00010000
$hGUI = GUICreate("", 500, 500, -1, -1, $WS_TABSTOP)
$idDummy = GUICtrlCreateButton("", 0, 0, 1, 1)
$idInp = GUICtrlCreateInput("Input", 0, 0, 500, 500, 0x1404)
GUISetState()
ControlFocus("", "", $idDummy)

While 1
    Select
        Case GUIGetMsg()=-3
            Exit
    EndSelect
WEnd

Br,

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I think what he means is he's attempting to insert @Tab into the input control and instead it takes the default Tab action which in this case will just select the control contents.

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You could do something like this:

GUICreate("")
GUICtrlCreateInput("Input", 0, 0, 500, 500, 0x1404)
GUISetState()
HotKeySet("{TAB}", "_TabIn")
While 1
    Select
        Case GUIGetMsg()=-3
            Exit
    EndSelect
WEnd
Func _TabIn()
    Send("{Space 4}")
EndFunc

You might want to make the HotKeySet conditional on whether the GUI and the Input/Edit control has focus at the time, otherwise TAB will always just Send 4 spaces to whatever window is active at the time.

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I think what he means is he's attempting to insert @Tab into the input control and instead it takes the default Tab action which in this case will just select the control contents.

Yep... I mean exactly that.

You could do something like this:

GUICreate("")
GUICtrlCreateInput("Input", 0, 0, 500, 500, 0x1404)
GUISetState()
HotKeySet("{TAB}", "_TabIn")
While 1
    Select
        Case GUIGetMsg()=-3
            Exit
    EndSelect
WEnd
Func _TabIn()
    Send("{Space 4}")
EndFunc

You might want to make the HotKeySet conditional on whether the GUI and the Input/Edit control has focus at the time, otherwise TAB will always just Send 4 spaces to whatever window is active at the time.

Hmmm... Interesting... that worked perfectly for me. I thought about doing it like that myself but thought that it would select all of the text aswell, and therefore, remove all data in the editbox.

Thankyou guys, big help as you all usually are.

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