selecting text in a textbox

[Guest]

Hi,
I need to write something so that when a textbox is entered (this is for a
touchscreen), all the text in that textbox is selected (highlighted) and new
keystrokes replace the old text. Help!
Thanks (again),
Melanie

 

[Guest]

I am not sure which event to use in Windows Forms apps, but with a Web Kiosk
type app, you would use the OnFocus to select all text in the control.

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[Guest]

To highlight the contents of a TextBox, simply set it’s SelectionStart
property to 0, and SelectionLength to the length of the text within ala:

myTextBox.SelectionStart = 0;
myTextBox.SelectionLength = myTextBox.Text.Length;
myTextBox.Focus();

The Focus() ensures that the TextBox receives focus so that you can see the
selection. Or, if you have already set HideSelection to false, then you can
drop the call to Focus().

Brendan

 

[clintonG]

You need to use JavaScript for this unless you want to send the page back to
the server and then send the page back to the client again which is a drag
on performance and poor usability which I contend is perhaps the most
significant reason touchscreen applications have rarely been successful,
e.g. once a user tries to use the application and it runs like sh!t they
never use it again.

Go to the JavaScript FAQ [1] and you will learn how to get text in a textbox
selected and replaced. Only go back to the server if you have to. Be aware
of a methodology called AJAX [A(synchronous) JA(vascript( X(ml)] as it is a
methodology that allow the contents of a control such as a textbox to be
sent back to the sever and back again without needing to send the whole
page.

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[1] http://developer.irt.org/
[2] http://ajax.schwarz-interactive.de/csharpsample/default.aspx

 

[Siva M]

Hello,

Use textbox element's select() and focus() methods as in:

<input type=text name="txt">
<input type=button value="Select Text" onClick="txt.select();txt.focus();">

HTH

Hi,
I need to write something so that when a textbox is entered (this is for a
touchscreen), all the text in that textbox is selected (highlighted) and new
keystrokes replace the old text. Help!
Thanks (again),
Melanie