c# and Revit Textbox issue

[jchristel]

Hi,

I am feeling a bit like an idiot... I have textboxes on a c# form within Revit and for some reasons the textboxes do not accept any special chracters where I have to press <shift+...> to get to it (ie: # or $ or %...). Capitals are however no problem. Unfortunately tabbing between the textboxes doesnt work either.

I tried a standalone c# project (a form outside of Revit) and the textbox works like expected, all chracters are displayed properly.

The textboxes have no code attached to their respective event handlers...

What am I missing?

P.S. I am kind of new to c# coding, used to do VB.net.

Thanks!

[mmason.65315]

Question: are you doing a modal or modeless window? (modeless meaning that you can still interact with Revit while the dialog was up)?

I have seen issues in the past with modeless windows- where Revit was grabbing all of certain keys away from you (delete was particularly painful - you thought you were deleting a line from a textbox but you were in fact deleting whatever was selected).

If I recall correctly, the issue is improved (if not fixed) by making Revit the parent window of your dialog box. The Building Coder blog has a post about this - it involves doing some gymnastics to get the window handle of Revit then make an interface that resembles a form to be the parent...

-Matt

[vaynenick693398]

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Vayne