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Posted: **Sun Apr 08, 2012 12:00 am**

Hi,

How to select all the text in the field on enter it by mouse click?
Attached below handler from Dictionary is working only when navigating by TAB. After clicking on the field it seems to select all the text, but immediately the text is unselected and in place of clicking is blinking cursor.

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on openField
   select text of the target
end openField

LC 5.5.1 on Mac
The field is not locked. Am I missing something, or it's LC bug?

Thanks for help in advance,
Marek

Posted: **Sun Apr 08, 2012 12:31 pm**

Hi Marek,

well, the text gets selected "on openfield", but then the mouseclick will also be executed,
-> set cursor in field and deselect previous selection, immediately after that!

If you add a little wait handler it will work out fine:

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on openfield
  wait 1 with messages
  select text of the target
end openfield

Tested and works

Best and happy easter

Klaus

Posted: **Sun Apr 08, 2012 9:28 pm**

Happy Easter Klaus, thanks a lot.

I was trying to wait before select, but not with message after it.

Happy Easter to all LC Coders,
Marek

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