Delete a character from string realbasic

Question

I have a virtual keyboard created in RealBasic. When I press letters, numbers I append it to a textfield all its ok but, how do I delete characters from that textfield from current cursor position when I press "Delete" button from virtual keyboard?

To append letters or numbers to the textfields I use:

TextField1.Text = TextField1.text + me.Caption //to append caption
TextField1.SelStart = Len(TextField1.text)  // to move cursor at the end of string

Answer 1

Paul's solution works if you only plan to delete the last typed character.

But beware: If you let the user also move the cursor left and right, you have to delete the text at the position of the cursor, of course. And if you also allow the user to select text, then it's even more complicated.

I suggest that your virtual keyboard simply send the typed key to the system as if the user had pressed the key. That way, the TextEdit field will do everything for you.

To make this work, however, you need custom solutions for each OS platform you want to support.

Let me know which platforms you plan to support and I'll see what I can find. I have some code for OSX but not for Windows, yet.

Answer 2

Just lop off the last character:

TextField1.Text = TextField1.Text.Left(TextField1.Len-1)

Answer 3

Doing what Thomas said means:

dim n as String = TextField1.Text
n = newText.left(TextField1.selStart) + n.right(n.len - textField1.selStart - 1)
textField1.text = n