comment on

You need the Class package that you have to associate with the RichEdit widget.
Then you can bind the KeyPress event.
This code below works form me with Win32::GUI 0.502 but could have problems with more recent versions.

I hope dada could give us a more complete answer :)

use strict;
use Win32::GUI;

my $win = new Win32::GUI::Window(
    -name   => "Window",
    -text   => "Test",
    -width  => 200,
    -height => 100,
    -left   => 200,
    -top    => 100,
    -minsize => [200, 100],
);


my $TextClass = new Win32::GUI::Class(
    -name => "_Editor",
    -extends => "RichEdit",
    -widget => "RichEdit",
);

my $SearchText = $win->AddRichEdit (
  -class     => $TextClass,
  -left => 10,
  -top => 10,
  -width => 170,
  -height => 52,
  -text=>"",
  -name=>"searchtext",
);

sub searchtext_KeyPress {

    my($key) = @_;

    if ($key == 13) {

    print "Enter!\n";
    }

    return 1;
}

sub Window_Terminate {

    exit;
    return -1;
}

$win->Show();
Win32::GUI::Dialog();
[download]

UPDATE:

Above code works with RichEdit. If you want to recognize enter press on a Textfield, recent rumours on the Win32::GUI mailing list, point me to this:

use strict;
use Win32::GUI;

my $win = new Win32::GUI::Window(
    -name   => "Window",
    -text   => "Test",
    -width  => 200,
    -height => 100,
    -left   => 200,
    -top    => 100,
    -minsize => [200, 100],
);

my $SearchText = $win->AddTextfield (
  -left => 10,
  -top => 10,
  -width => 170,
  -height => 52,
  -text=>"",
  -name=>"searchtext",
  -multiline=>1,
);

sub searchtext_Change{
    my $rtest = 0;
        my $input ='';
        $input=$SearchText->Text();
        $rtest = $input=~/\r\n$/;
        if($rtest){print "Enter!\n";}
}

sub Window_Terminate {

    exit;
    return -1;
}

$win->Show();
Win32::GUI::Dialog();
[download]

Thanks to John Rogers to show us the trick (with a little fix from me ;) )

In reply to Re: How do I recognize that the user has pressed enter inside a text box? Win32::GUI Question by dree
in thread How do I recognize that the user has pressed enter inside a text box? Win32::GUI Question by talwyn

Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!

Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.

Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.

Please read these before you post! —

Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:

a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr

You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)

	For:		Use:
	&		`&`
	<		`<`
	>		`>`
	[		`[`
	]		`]`

Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?

See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.