Hi,
Using WPF. I'll give the Start/Length a try....
Ken
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk>wrote:
> Hello Ken,
>
> 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.
>
> All the best,
>
> Michael
>
>
> On 24/03/2010 20:54, Ken MacDonald wrote:
>
> 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:
>
> textbox.GotKeyboardFocus += name_keyboard_focus
>
> but this handler is doing something wrong:
>
> def name_keyboard_focus(self, sender, args):
> #alert("got focus!")
> textbox = self.control("NewName")
> textbox.Focus()
> textbox.SelectAll()
>
> If I add:
>
> textbox.Cut()
>
> or:
> alert(textbox.SelectedText)
>
> 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".
>
> Any clues appreciated.
> Ken
>
>
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