SelectAll function missing from ComboBox

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A combobox is suppose to be a combination of a TextField and combobox. Many useful functions from the TextField class seem to be missing from the combobox. I did not expect this to work but I have even attempted casting a combobox as a TextField. Any way around this problem?

Thanks

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Set the selStart to 0 and selLength to the length of text in the combobox should do what you want.

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Wrong! At least in Windows Xojo 2014r3.2 combobox selStart and selLength both are useles as they not work. :frowning:

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Select all in the ComboBox works fine here (Xojo 2013 R3.3 on MacOS X 10.6.8)

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You should use the latest version. It works perfectly in 2015R1. For instance. Windows 10 Tech Preview.

Sub Action() ComboBox1.SelStart = 1 ComboBox1.SelLength = len(ComboBox1.text) End Sub

Update : I just tried the same test program in 2014R3.2 with exactly the same result. It is not nice to spread false information :confused:

Oliver : To select all, just do what I posted.

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You might not need to do that. The system shortcut works just fine for me (but then I’m on a Mac).

Michel, have you tried the system shortcut for SelectAll on Windows?

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[quote=179466:@Markus Winter]You might not need to do that. The system shortcut works just fine for me (but then I’m on a Mac).

Michel, have you tried the system shortcut for SelectAll on Windows?[/quote]

Ctrl-A works perfectly as well. But I thought what Oliver wanted was to do that in code. But now I notice this 2013 thread was hijacked, and Oliver must have moved on a long time ago. At any rate, proof is in the pudding and the ComboBox selstart and sellenght work perfectly.

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[quote=179463:@Michel Bujardet]You should use the latest version. It works perfectly in 2015R1. For instance. Windows 10 Tech Preview.

Sub Action() ComboBox1.SelStart = 1 ComboBox1.SelLength = len(ComboBox1.text) End Sub

Update : I just tried the same test program in 2014R3.2 with exactly the same result. It is not nice to spread false information :confused:

Oliver : To select all, just do what I posted.[/quote]
Setting SelStart to 1 will start the selection with the second character. You need to set it to 0 to select the entire contents.

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Right. I typed too fast. Thanks.