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Re: How to cause a TextBox's contents to be SELECTED when you SETFOCUS

Jay B

2005-12-01, 1:24 pm

try either the following in the click event of the textbox:
a) this.setfocus

b) this.selstart=0
this. sellength=len(alltri
m(trans(this.value)))

they both work.

Jud wrote:
> Hi,
> This is VFP6 SP5.
>
> I have a form which has 3 TextBoxes to enter key words for the search
> through a database. When the form first opens the first TextBox has
> been .SETFOCUSed, but if it has some contents, they are not selected
> (Bright White over Dark Blue). But after I press the Search button the
> Search Procedure does SETFOCUS to the TextBox at the end of the
> procedure. At that point, the contents are selected. Which is what I
> want to have happen any time the TextBox has FOCUS. SelectOnEntry =
> .T.. Could I use the "GotFocus" method? If so, what would I put in
> there?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Jud
>

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