Hi Jimmy, Thanks; this thread looks quite interesting and very close to what I want to do. Off chasing something else after I implemented a kind-of-lame workaround, but this looks like an excellent place to make some more progress when I get back onto this problem. Ken
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Jimmy Schementi < jimmy.scheme...@microsoft.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.ironpython.com > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > >
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