Re: PowerCOBOL Control Mumble-Mumble

Pete Dashwood wrote:
> When you open the form (in the OPEN event)
>
>           move POW-TRUE to "SelectText" of [control name]...
>
> TABbing to it will show selected text, as will clicking on it.
>
> It is not advisable to set properties on GotFocus, because the act of
> setting them can raise another GotFocus event and this gets queued,
> with unpredictable results, under certain (admittedly rare)
> circumstances. I make it a practice to set all properties BEFORE I
> activate the control, and I don't usually rely on the default
> properties to be intact.

But doesn't setting the properties (under admittedly rare) circumstances
raise the GotFocus event?

>
> I would put the line of code above as the last statement in the RETURN
> event, as well as in the Form OPEN.
>
> HTH,
>
> Pete.

Thanks for the advice.

1. SelectText defaults to TRUE.
2. For a Text Box, SelectText can only be referenced (not set) at execution
time.
3. Testing the SelectText property shows that it is true.

You're right about the control going a little silly. If nothing but reading
the contents takes place in the GotFocus control, the SelectText doesn't
wink off. Moving something to the control in the GotFocus event (or changing
the RenderText sub-property) turns off the text selection.

I need a PreGotFocus event.