[Gambas-user] SelectAll feature

[Michael]

I am using Gambas2 and the .SelectAll feature when a textbox gets focus. 
It works perfectly on my Ubuntu 64 bit. I am using the GB.qt components.
Regards
Mike

On 12/11/10 07:19, Demosthenes Koptsis wrote:
> The SelectAll is for the Gambas2 application, not a mine one.
>
> This feature is missing from Gambas2.
>
> On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 20:47 +0100, Matti wrote:
>> If you want to do it via CTRL+A, you have to write a keypress event for the form:
>>
>> Public Sub Form_KeyPress()
>>    If Key.Code = Key["A"] And If Key.Control Then
>>      TextBox1.SelectAll
>>    Endif
>> End
>>
>> And if you want to have the text selected automatically when the text box gets
>> the focus, do:
>>
>> Public Sub TextBox1_GotFocus()
>>    TextBox1.SelectAll
>> End
>>
>>
>> Am 11.11.2010 08:01, schrieb Demosthenes Koptsis:
>>> Good morning to all,
>>>
>>> While setting properties or any text that is in a textbox i wanted to
>>> press CTRL+A to select all the word and then press BACKSPACE to delete
>>> it and next to write a new one.
>>>
>>> But the CTRL+A is not working and i need to press many times the arrow
>>> keys to set the pointer to the end of the word and then to press many
>>> times BACKSPACE to delete the word.
>>>
>>> I know this is not so a big deal but if i do it many times is annoying.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to enable the SelectAll feature for any textbox or any
>>> other control that contains text so to manage more fastest the strings?
>>>
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