AWT Text fields

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2 total messages Started by Trembath Sun, 19 Mar 2000 00:00

#925

Author: Trembath
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 00:00

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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

Re: AWT Text fields

#928

Author: 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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