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Hello Ken,<br>
<br>
You don't say whether you are using WPF, Windows Forms or Silverlight.
When I've written code similar to your with windows forms and always
used SelectionStart and SelectionLength.<br>
<br>
All the best,<br>
<br>
Michael<br>
<br>
On 24/03/2010 20:54, Ken MacDonald wrote:
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cite="mid:3468cae11003241354l60bd213ejd449aa23921bf990@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">I'm trying to capture the event of focus being shifted
into a text box via mouse click, and would like to highlight the
existing text, so that if I start typing the selected text will
disappear. i.e. the the box initially contains "<Enter Name>", I
click into the box, "<Enter Name>" is highlighted, and if I type
"fred" the initial text will disappear, leaving only "fred". I can
capture the focus with:<br>
<br>
textbox.GotKeyboardFocus += name_keyboard_focus<br>
<br>
but this handler is doing something wrong:<br>
<br>
def name_keyboard_focus(self, sender, args):<br>
#alert("got focus!")<br>
textbox = self.control("NewName")<br>
textbox.Focus()<br>
textbox.SelectAll()<br>
<br>
If I add:<br>
<br>
textbox.Cut()<br>
<br>
or:<br>
alert(textbox.SelectedText)<br>
<br>
at the end, it's obvious that the SelectAll() has worked, but the text
is NOT highlighted, and if I type "fred" I get "fred" appended to the
original text, "<Enter Name>fred".<br>
<br>
Any clues appreciated.<br>
Ken<br>
<br>
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