How to select all in textbox? - Visual Basic .NET

Brett

I have a textbox with width of 504 and height 248. It gets filled with much
content so there is a vertical scroll bar present. When I click into this
box and do Ctrl + A, it should highlight everything. However, nothing
happens. I have to click into the box, hold down Shift and page down to get
everything. Is there a way to enable the select all option?

Thanks,
Brett

Nov 21 '05 #1

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Peter Proost

Use a richtextbox

hth

Peter

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I have a textbox with width of 504 and height 248. It gets filled with much content so there is a vertical scroll bar present. When I click into this
box and do Ctrl + A, it should highlight everything. However, nothing
happens. I have to click into the box, hold down Shift and page down to get everything. Is there a way to enable the select all option?

Thanks,
Brett

Nov 21 '05 #2

Larry Lard

Brett wrote:

I have a textbox with width of 504 and height 248. It gets filled with much content so there is a vertical scroll bar present. When I click into this box and do Ctrl + A, it should highlight everything. However, nothing happens. I have to click into the box, hold down Shift and page down to get everything. Is there a way to enable the select all option?

Interesting. A plain textbox DOES respond to Ctrl-Z X C V (with the
usual Windows meanings), so those must be 'built-in' to the TextBox
control. But I suppose Ctrl-A is not 'Windows standard' enough to make
it.

To provide this functionality for a TextBox named txt :

Private Sub txt_KeyDown(ByV al sender As Object, ByVal e As
System.Windows. Forms.KeyEventA rgs) Handles txt.KeyDown
If e.Control And e.KeyCode = Keys.A Then
txt.SelectAll()
End If
End Sub

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Larry Lard
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Nov 21 '05 #3

Brett

Sorry. It is a rich textbox.

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Use a richtextbox

hth

Peter

"Brett" <no@spam.com> schreef in bericht
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I have a textbox with width of 504 and height 248. It gets filled with

much
content so there is a vertical scroll bar present. When I click into
this
box and do Ctrl + A, it should highlight everything. However, nothing
happens. I have to click into the box, hold down Shift and page down to

get
everything. Is there a way to enable the select all option?

Thanks,
Brett

Nov 21 '05 #4

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