Selected Text

[Jim Heavey]

I am wanting to select all of the text in a textbox control when the enters
the control I thought the "selectionLength" property and setting it to the
length of the value in the textbox. I also used the "entered" event. Nothing
happens when I enter the control. The code (below) executes, but nothing is
highlighted like is was selected. Am I not using the correct property?

Thanks in advance for your assistance!!!!

 

[kalpesh]

TextBox1.SelectionStart = 0
TextBox1.SelectionLength = TextBox1.Text.Length

TextBox1.Focus()

HTH
Kalpesh

 

[Armin Zingler]

I am wanting to select all of the text in a textbox control when the
enters the control I thought the "selectionLength" property and
setting it to the length of the value in the textbox. I also used
the "entered" event. Nothing happens when I enter the control. The
code (below) executes,

Hmm..pretty fast code... ;-)

but nothing is highlighted like is was
selected. Am I not using the correct property?

TextBox1.SelectAll()



works for me. It doesn't help when entering the texbox using the mouse
because the selection is set after the textbox has been entered.

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Hello,

I am wanting to select all of the text in a textbox control when the enters
the control I thought the "selectionLength" property and setting it to the
length of the value in the textbox. I also used the "entered" event. Nothing
happens when I enter the control. The code (below) executes, but nothing is
highlighted like is was selected. Am I not using the correct property?

Where is the code?

Untested: Use this class instead of the standard windows forms textbox:

\\\
Public Class MyTextBox
Inherits TextBox

Private Sub MyTextBox_GotFocus( _
ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs _
) Handles MyBase.GotFocus
Me.SelectAll()
End Sub
End Class
///

HTH,
Herfried K. Wagner