Is there some way I can detect or cause an event to fire whenever text is pasted into a RichTextBox? Or maybe there is already some kind of event that fires when text is pasted? This is Winforms C#, by the way.
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Is there some way I can detect or cause an event to fire whenever text is pasted into a RichTextBox? Or maybe there is already some kind of event that fires when text is pasted? This is Winforms C#, by the way.
Because not all people may use Ctrl+V and because there are other ways to get text into a text box (such as drag and drop), I went a different route, which I will share here in case anyone else is looking for a solution.
What I did was create a field in my class:
and in the TextChanged() event I added the following:
I went under the assumption that if more then 2 characters were entered into the text box at a time, then text must have been pasted, because how else can someone input more then 2 characters at a time? So anyway, this worked for me. Thanks to everyone who tried to help.