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TextBox Cursor Position in a Form

I have a Form With TextBox Control , Which will be filled up in form load with somedata.

When i create a Form With Reflection (Activator.CreateInstance(formType, params)), i am not able to control cursor through mouse button....Cursor always set into starting position and will not change even i click in between text.

When i open the same form through "new Form()" i dont have any issue.

Can anyone tell me what could be the reason?

pvm444 Monday, June 15, 2009 8:19 AM

Check if it works when you display that form with ShowDialog() instead of Show(). If it does, you've got a threading problem.

Hans Passant.

Marked As Answer byKira QianMSFT, ModeratorFriday, June 19, 2009 6:24 AM

nobugz Monday, June 15, 2009 11:55 AM

Hi pvm444,

I am not sure how did you show the form. Could you please post the whole code of it?

I have done this with the following code and didn't found any problem.
In Form1, click button1 will show Form2.
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Form2 frm = (Form2)Activator.CreateInstance(typeof(Form2));
frm.ShowDialog();
}

In Form2, there is a textbox initialed with some text
public partial class Form2 : Form
{
public Form2()
{
InitializeComponent();
this.textBox1.Text = "Test text";
}
}

Sincerely,
Kira Qian

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