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Select all text in TextBox on tabulation

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If I press Tab key and focus jumps to TextBox contol the text in this TextBox not selected but it should.

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  • State:closed
  • Created 7 years ago
  • Comments:10 (10 by maintainers)

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robbieknuthcommented, Sep 15, 2016

Sounds reasonable. I’ve been wanting to get involved in this project, this looks like a good place to start. I’ll take a look.

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robbieknuthcommented, Sep 18, 2016

PR #745 fixes this issue. If the textbox is single line, select all text. If it has no text or it is a multiline textbox (acceptsreturn is true), then show the caret like before.

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