How to pre-select the text in a text box

[RohanWest]

I have a text box and i need to know how to select the highlight text in the text box, i am not sure how to do this and would like some help if you could give me any example code i would like to thank you ver much...

Rohan

[Iain17]

not sure what you mean.

To highlight text do

'highlights all of the text in the text box

Text1.SelStart = 0
Text1.SelLength = Len(Text1.Text)

to get the highlighted text into a variable use.

strText = Mid$(Text1.Text, Text1.SelStart, Text1.SelLength)

[RohanWest]

The method that you just posted didnt seem to work here is the code that i am using......

Private Sub lstCourses_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
txtsearch.Text = lstCourses.Text
txtsearch.SelStart = 0
txtsearch.SelLength = Len(txtsearch.Text)
End Sub

[kedaman]

Iain, you can use seltext property instead to get the selected text:

strText = text1.seltext

[Iain17]

Doh, forgot all about that Kedaman. Silly me.

Any way, for a text box to be highlighted it must have the focus. So at the end of that sub do.

"Text1.SetFocus"

[RohanWest]

It works .... I didnt set the focus....thank you

[Iain17]

Or set the textboxes "HideSelection" property to false. This will cause the text box to show what is highlighted even when it does not have the focus.

[RohanWest]

That was my next question......thank you guys