.NET CompactFramework TextBox.selectAll在gotFocus上

Question

i'm developing an application for an mobile device with WM 6.5 (.NET 3.5) and have the following problem:

When the textBox.gotFocus() event is called on an textBox in my form, I call the SelectAll() method of this textBox for selecting the entire text.

This method works in case of Tab navigation (selectNextControl()), but not in case of "touching" this textBox on device display. In this case the selectAll() method is executed, but the text is not selected.

Has anyone experience with this? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

The problem is Windows Mobile's internal event handling. Using a timer and doing the SelectAll() a few milliseconds after the event is triggered fixes the problem.

Just do this instead of the usual SelectAll() in your GotFocus event handler:

var timer = new Timer { Interval = 100, Enabled = true };
timer.Tick += (EventHandler) delegate
{
    SelectAll();
    timer.Dispose();
};