Highlight the entire field programmically 1

[SQLSister]

I have a field that I want the entire field highlighted whenever the user clicks on it. It does this when you tab to it but not when you click with the mouse. I can't seem to find the command to specify that the whole field is highlighted.

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[Mike555]

See the post from PaulF at thread702-614979. I recently used this and it worked great.

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Mike

 

[PHV]

In the Click event procedure of the control named, say myText:
myText.SelStart = 1
myText.SelLength = Len(myText)

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[SQLSister]

MIke thank yo for the suggestion, but I don't want to change the look but to actually select the entire field, so that I can type in a replacement value.

PHV, I tried what you suggested and still nothing happens. Ah, now I see, I needed to start at 0 not 1 on the SelStart.

Thanks so much, this works beautifully.

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