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Neil Raffa

CBuilder Developer
Wed, 24 Mar 2004 06:25:39 GMT

Selecting all text in an edit box

When I tab between edit boxes the contents of the edit box are all
highlighted. (AutoSelect is set TRUE).
If I use the mouse to click into an edit box, it does not highlight all
text.
The only way I've managed it is to put the following in the OnEnter event
for the edit component:

    SelectNext(this->ActiveControl,true,true);
    SelectNext(this->ActiveControl,false,true);

There must be a more elegant solution than this??

Regards

 
Remy Lebea

CBuilder Developer
Wed, 24 Mar 2004 07:24:26 GMT

Re:Selecting all text in an edit box


Use the edit control's SelectAll() method:

    void __fastcall TForm1::Edit1Enter(TObject *Sender)
    {
        Edit1->SelectAll();
    }

Gambit

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"Neil Raffan" <n...@accsystems.co.uk> wrote in message

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> The only way I've managed it is to put the following in the OnEnter event
> for the edit component:

>     SelectNext(this->ActiveControl,true,true);
>     SelectNext(this->ActiveControl,false,true);

> There must be a more elegant solution than this??

Neil Raffa

CBuilder Developer
Wed, 24 Mar 2004 20:39:48 GMT

Re:Selecting all text in an edit box


Remy,

It doesn't work in the OnEnter event.
It does, however, work in the OnClick event.

Regards

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"Remy Lebeau" <gambi...@gte.net> wrote in message news:3bbe40c7$1_1@dnews...
> Use the edit control's SelectAll() method:

>     void __fastcall TForm1::Edit1Enter(TObject *Sender)
>     {
>         Edit1->SelectAll();
>     }

> Gambit

Milan Babusko

CBuilder Developer
Sat, 27 Mar 2004 17:39:28 GMT

Re:Selecting all text in an edit box


Then set AutoSelect property to true.

--

Milan Babuskov

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> It doesn't work in the OnEnter event.
> It does, however, work in the OnClick event.

Neil Raffa

CBuilder Developer
Sun, 28 Mar 2004 06:19:54 GMT

Re:Selecting all text in an edit box


Auto Select *is* true.

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"Milan Babuskov" <mil...@Yugoslavia.EU.net> wrote in message

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> Then set AutoSelect property to true.

> --

> Milan Babuskov

> > It doesn't work in the OnEnter event.
> > It does, however, work in the OnClick event.

Milan Babusko

CBuilder Developer
Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:04:31 GMT

Re:Selecting all text in an edit box


I'm sorry, I thought you may have set it to false while you were trying to
make it work.
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Milan Babuskov

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