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How can I make a text control that selects its entire contents whenever it gains the keyboard focus?

April 26, 2017Contents CONTROL entire focus gains keyboard selects text

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How can I make a text control that selects its entire contents whenever it gains the keyboard focus?

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Such a text control would behave like the URL entry box of a web browser. The problem is how to handle the standard mouse-click processing. My solution sets a flag, and then waits for idle time (after all standard processing is over), to select the contents.