Handle a paste event in c#

Question

I've created a static class numeric Textbox but i wan't to control what the users paste in te textbox. For handling paste Event i use textchanged event:

        static public void textChanged(EventArgs e, TextBox textbox, double tailleMini, double tailleMaxi, string carNonAutorisé)
    {            
        //Recherche dans la TextBox, la première occurrence de l'expression régulière.
        Match match = Regex.Match(textbox.Text, carNonAutorisé);
        /*Si il y a une Mauvaise occurence:
         *   - On efface le contenu collé
         *   - On prévient l'utilisateur 
         */
        if (match.Success)
        {
            textbox.Text = "";
            MessageBox.Show("Votre copie un ou des caractère(s) non autorisé", "Attention", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information);
        }
        tailleTextBox(textbox, tailleMini, tailleMaxi);
    }

In another class i use this static methode like this

    private void tbxSigné_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        FiltreTbx.textChanged(e, tbxSigné, double.MinValue, double.MaxValue, @"[^\d\,\;\.\-]");
    }

What i wan't to do is something like that:

  if (match.Success)
    {
        textbox.Text = //Write the text before users paste in the textbox;

    }

Anyone have an idea please?

Answer 1

First of all, have you considered using MaskedTextBox instead? It can handle the character filtering for you.

However, for the sake of this exercise, you could think of a solution along this line. This is the usage:

public Form1()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    FiltreTbx.AddTextBoxFilter(tbxSigné,
                               double.MinValue, double.MaxValue,
                               @"[^\d\,\;\.\-]");
}

This AddTextBoxFilter is a new static method, which you only call once. It will add a TextChanged handler to the TextBox. This handler uses a closure to store the previous Text in the text box.

Your static method gained an extra parameter to pass along this previous text.

public class FiltreTbx
{
    public static void AddTextBoxFilter(TextBox textbox,
                                        double tailleMini, double tailleMaxi,
                                        string carNonAutorisé)
    {
        string previousText = textbox.Text;

        textbox.TextChanged +=
            delegate(object sender, EventArgs e)
            {
                 textChanged(e, textbox, tailleMini, tailleMaxi,
                             carNonAutorisé, previousText);
                 previousText = textbox.Text;
            };
    }

    static public void textChanged(EventArgs e, TextBox textbox,
                                   double tailleMini, double tailleMaxi,
                                   string carNonAutorisé, string previousText)
    {
        //Recherche dans la TextBox, la première occurrence de l'expression régulière.
        Match match = Regex.Match(textbox.Text, carNonAutorisé);
        /*Si il y a une Mauvaise occurence:
         *   - On efface le contenu collé
         *   - On prévient l'utilisateur 
         */
        if (match.Success)
        {
            // Set the Text back to the value it had after the previous
            // TextChanged event.
            textbox.Text = previousText;
            MessageBox.Show("Votre copie un ou des caractère(s) non autorisé",
                            "Attention", MessageBoxButtons.OK,
                            MessageBoxIcon.Information);
        }
        tailleTextBox(textbox, tailleMini, tailleMaxi);
    }
}

I'm not sure what tailleTextBox is supposed to do exactly, you did not include that source code, but I suspect it enforces the minimum and maximum values?

Alternate solution

If you want to handle the Paste operation yourself, before it even happens, you will have to intercept the WM_PASTE message to the text box. One way of doing is would be by creating a specialized control:

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;

class MyTextBox : TextBox
{
    private const int WM_PASTE = 0x0302;

    protected override void WndProc(ref Message m)
    {
        if (m.Msg != WM_PASTE)
        {
            // Handle all other messages normally
            base.WndProc(ref m);
        }
        else
        {
            // Some simplified example code that complete replaces the
            // text box content only if the clipboard contains a valid double.
            // I'll leave improvement of this behavior as an exercise :)
            double value;
            if (double.TryParse(Clipboard.GetText(), out value))
            {
                Text = value.ToString();
            }
        }
    }
}

If you define the class in your WinForms project, you should be able to drag it onto your form like any other control.