Searching database for every keyboard press

[gamer1127]

Hello to all. I'm having a little problem with one of the features that I want to have in my program. I want my program to search the names of the guest for every key press. For example, if I press H on the keyboard, all of the last names that starts with H should appear. I tried to use both KeyDown and KeyPress Events but either of them doesn't seem to work. Can anyone help me?

[Abhinav S]

Post some code here and someone might be able to help you.

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[Mycroft Holmes]

Why not use the textchanged event to filter the dataview.

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[PIEBALDconsult]

Have you considered using autocomplete or whatever it is?

[Lost User]

Where are the customers list stored ?

I know nothing , I know nothing ...

[Not Active]

Why does it matter?

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[Not Active]

Doesn't the OnTextChanged event fire after the textbox looses focus? That would be too late for this purpose, I believe the OP wants type-ahead lookup functionality

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[Mycroft Holmes]

Mark Nischalke wrote:

Doesn't the OnTextChanged event fire after the textbox looses focus

I'll need to go check this, I was under the impression it would fire at each change of content.

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[Not Active]

Had to check also. Winforms it raises the event while typing, in Web its raised after loosing focus

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[Mycroft Holmes]

Being a winforms developer I did not even consider the webform activity. Talk about a narrow view on life. I would not have considered this a viable solution on a webform, you would have to resort to (spit) javascript or ajax to get any sort of reasonable response.

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[J4amieC]

If they're stored on a piece of paper its going to be real difficult to write the ODBC driver ;)