Re: AWT Text fields

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From: Cannon
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 00:00

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TextField tf = new TextField();
tf.setText("blah");
//Select to be placed in the focus handler
tf.selectAll();


Trembath <danielt@ihug.com.au> wrote in message
news:danielt-60C06E.15005919032000@news.mel.ihug.com.au...
> When switching focus to a text field, be it by the user, or the program,
> how do you make it select all the text?
>
> ie. like when you click on the address bar in netscape, by default all
> the text is selected, so you can just start typing and it will replace
> everything that is there.
>
> I've got a little applet where im constantly tab'ing back over fields to
> replace their contents, and i have to delete the values manualy each
> time...quite frustrating after a while.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> TIA
>
> -Daniel

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