Does the equivalent C#/VB code work? I'd think not; it's just a matter of using the TextBox selection APIs correctly. This sounds like a similar issue: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vbgeneral/thread/81b43024-6164-43c7-a6b6-e2f55c9412c8. Basically, I think you need to call Focus() again after selecting the text programmatically; I ran into the same issue while building my RubyConf demo: http://github.com/jschementi/rubyconf2009/blob/master/sketchscript/features/start.rb#L204.
~js From: users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Ken MacDonald Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 1:54 PM To: Discussion of IronPython Subject: [IronPython] focus and selecting text in a TextBox with IronPython 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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