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Message        eddy2099          Post subject: Textarea Select All and 
DeselectPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 2:44 am                         
Joined: Sun Jan 23, 2011 11:59 am
Posts: 58                I needed to copy all the contents of the textarea so I 
did this

Code:textarea.SelectAll
textarea.Copy
textarea.SelText=""

The selectall and copy works great. However I need to deselect the SelectAll 
text so I issued the textarea.SelText="" and everything disappear from the 
textbox. How do I go about deselecting the SelectAll ?

I did a workaround by copying the entire text to a string and then pasting it 
back to the textarea after I am done with the copying which probably isn't the 
right way to do it.

Is there a better way ?      
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                             Top                 pbart          Post subject: 
Re: Textarea Select All and DeselectPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 3:23 am            
                     
Joined: Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:40 am
Posts: 234                Just a guess, but try 

TextArea1.Refresh      
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                             Top                 timhare          Post subject: 
Re: Textarea Select All and DeselectPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 3:32 am            
             
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Location: Portland, OR  USA                TextArea1.SelLength = 0   
                             Top                eddy2099          Post subject: 
Re: Textarea Select All and DeselectPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 3:35 am            
             
Joined: Sun Jan 23, 2011 11:59 am
Posts: 58                Thanks Paul.

If I kept the TextArea.SelText ="" and added TextArea.Refresh after that, it 
still disappear

Without the TextArea.SelText = "", it still shows the select box around the 
text.

In the End, I went with

Code:dim selectedtext as new clipboard
selectedtext.text = textarea.text
selectedtext.close


It seems to do the trick.

Thanks Tim. That did the trick too.     
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                             Top                 pbart          Post subject: 
Re: Textarea Select All and DeselectPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 3:41 am            
                     
Joined: Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:40 am
Posts: 234                when you use

TextArea.SelText =""

you are saying that you want the selected text to be ""
so yes, you should leave that line out.      
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                             Top                 eddy2099          Post 
subject: Re: Textarea Select All and DeselectPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:19 am   
                      
Joined: Sun Jan 23, 2011 11:59 am
Posts: 58                Thanks. I was under the impression that Text and 
SelText are two different thing altogether. Guess I am wrong there.     
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