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Prevent the user from typing data int a text box. This code works with ALL versions of Visual Basic

Prevent the user from typing data int a text box. This code works with ALL versions of Visual Basic, including 1.0 for DOS.

Rate Prevent the user from typing data int a text box. This code works with ALL versions of Visual Basic

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KeyAscii = 0

'Like this:

Sub Textbox1_KeyPress(KeyAscii as Integer)
  KeyAscii = 0
End Sub

'''------
'This will tell program that whenever a key is pressed while the textbox has
'the focus, do not allow the program to change the value of the textbox
'contents.

'I am aware that in VB4+ there is a Locked property for textboxes which
'does the same thing, but this works in any version of VB.