Question

I have a form which I read data to textbox from a barcode reader.
and there are some codded barcodes like this

W12346S1 is first step of a work
W12346S2 is second step of a work
W12346S3 is third step of a work
...
U123 is a user he read his code to make process
M456 is a machine user do the work on this machine.

so I want to write data to true textboxes from firs char (W, U, M) in form_KeyDown() event or one different.

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true textboxes mean if user read a barcode which start with W key let the program write the barcode data to “work tekxtbox” or if he read abarcode which start with U program will write the barcode data to user textbox etc…

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I wanna make this let the codes select its own textboxes. what is the way?

note: if I use textbox1.Text += e.KeyData.ToString();
the output is : ShiftKey, ShiftW, ShiftD1D2D3D4D6ShiftKey, ShiftS, ShiftD2 W12346S2
for W12346S2

Answer 1

Can’t you just read in the text and have something like this:

string FirstChar = BarcodeString.Substring(0,1);
if (FirstChar.Equals("W"))
    WorkTextBox.Text = BarcodeString;
if (FirstChar.Equals("U"))
    UserTextBox.Text = BarcodeString;