.NET — Textbox control - wait till user is done typing

Question

Greetings all,

Is there a built in way to know when a user is done typing into a textbox? (Before hitting tab, Or moving the mouse) I have a database query that occ

Answer 1

For those who need something like this in .NET 2.0, here I made a Control that derives from TextBox and uses the same approach.. Hope this help

public partial class TextBox : System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
{

    private ManualResetEvent _delayMSE;
    public event EventHandler OnUserStopTyping;
    private delegate bool TestTimeout();

    public TextBox()
    {
        _delayMSE = new ManualResetEvent(false);
        this.TextChanged += new EventHandler(TextBox_TextChanged);
    }

    void TextBox_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {


        _delayMSE.Set();
        Thread.Sleep(20);
        _delayMSE.Reset();

        TestTimeout tester = new TestTimeout(TBDelay);
        tester.BeginInvoke(new AsyncCallback(Test), tester);

    }


    private void Test(IAsyncResult pResult)
    { 
        bool timedOut = (bool)((TestTimeout)pResult.AsyncState).EndInvoke(pResult);
        if (timedOut)
        {
            if (OnUserStopTyping != null)
                OnUserStopTyping(this, null);
        }
    }

    private bool TBDelay()
    { 
        return !_delayMSE.WaitOne(500, false); 
    }

}