Tedit: can't disable autoselect
lazarus / 25-WinCE

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Rivello · 2012-11-18 06:48

Hello guys,

It seems impossible to disable the autoselect property of Tedits in
win CE.

On win 32 everything works well, if I tab to the edit, the text is not
selected.
But when I try on win CE, it doesnt matter the value of the autoselect
property, the text is always selected when the focus goes to the edit.
I also noted that when the focus is in an edit and I click anywhere
outside it, even without loosing the focus, its text is selected
again.

I'm making an on screen keyboard with speedbuttons to not loose focus
of the Tedit, but everytime I click the speedbutton, (or anything
else) the text of the tedit is selected and replaced by a single key
of my virtual keyboard.

Could anyone help?

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Rivello · 2012-11-18 07:28

Not sure if it's relevant, but I tried commenting the function
"SelectAll" in lazarus/lcl/include/customedit.inc , which seems to be
the one called to select the edit's text when the property
"autoselect" is enabled.

Results:
Autoselect stopped working on Win32, even when "true", the text is not
selected.

On Win CE, nothing changed, whenever I tab to, or click outside from a
Tedit, its text is selected

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BigChimp · 2012-11-18 08:38

Then you've probably edited the wrong file (yes, Captain Obvious
here).

Probably wince has a different include file, because it's a different
widgetset (though similar) than win32

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Rivello · 2012-11-18 16:48

Thank you for the reply.

I searched all the files in the lcl folder and the few ones which have
"autoselect" or "selectall" are in the lcl/include folder, which I
supose its not for winCE.

I also reported in bugtracker:
http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=23345