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Posted: **Sat Apr 11, 2015 11:58 am**

I'm stuck with the following problem (LC 7.0.4 on Mac): I have several text fields on my card. I'd like to give the users the possibility to mark all content of a text field as selected by pressing cmd+a on the keyboard, if the cursor is within the text field. I added a menu option "mark all" in MenuBuilder and assigned it the shortcut "cmd+a". I entered the following code in MenuBuilder:

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on menuPick pWhich
   switch pWhich

      [...deleted...]

      case "mark all"
         select the text of the target
         break
   end switch
end menuPick

This code has a behaviour I don't understand: If I have preselected some text in a text field, this selection gets cut after entering cmd+a (and is copied to the clipboard). If I just click into a text field and then enter cmd+a, nothing happens. How can I mark all of the text as selected in a focused text field?

Posted: **Sat Apr 11, 2015 12:36 pm**

Hi gTheus,

I think you have to put the name of "clicked field" at openfield into a variable sMyField
and replace

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 select the text of the target

with

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select the text of fld sMyField

Best regards
Jean-Marc

Posted: **Sat Apr 11, 2015 3:39 pm**

Hi Jean-Marc, thank you for the hint. I was wrong with "target", which refers - in my case - to the menu entry and not to the focused text field, right? After switching to your solution it works great.

Best, Gian-Reto.

Posted: **Sat Apr 11, 2015 5:38 pm**

You don't need a variable. Use "the selectedField" like this :

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if the selectedField is not empty then select the text of the selectedField

Posted: **Sun Apr 12, 2015 9:03 am**

Jacque, thank you. Entered into my code snippet collection to hopefully be never forgotten.

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