Selecting text in a TEXTBOX

[Ken Elvehjem]

Hi,

I am working on a program that has a number of textboxes. They are loaded from a fixed length string array when the program starts.

The user will need to edit some (hopefully very little) of the info in the text boxes.

What I can't seem to find is a way to highlight the entire existing contents of the TEXTBOX control when a user clicks or tabs into it.

Is there a simple way to do this?

Ken

[BOB MECHLER]

 
          CONTROL SEND hdlg,%CtrlID, %EM_SETSEL, 0,-1
in the %EN_SETFOCUS event for the control in the dialog callback

Bob Mechler

[BOB MECHLER]

Clicking in the field doesn't seem to trigger it. Tabbing into it shouldn't need any special extra coding.

Bob Mechler

[Ken Elvehjem]

Bob,

Thanks for the reply... it works just like you said. I wish I knew a way to make it select all the text when I click in the box -- Like the Address bar in IE...

Sincerely,

Ken

[Michael Mattias]

Select all the text in each control when you build it; and do not use ES_NOHIDESEL style. Then when control gets focus the selected text(all) will be highlited.

[Charles Dietz]

use CONTROL POST instead of CONTROL SEND
see: https://www.powerbasic.com/support/f...ML/006749.html

CONTROL POST hdlg,%CtrlID, %EM_SETSEL, 0,-1