Feature Request: A way for edit-field text to not be selected by default.

[areohbee]

edit_field text is selected by default, which means as soon as the user starts typing, pre-existing content is wiped out - not cool...

Thanks,

Rob

[John R Ellis]

I've found a partial workaround to this: Once the dialog is showing, if the you first assign the empty string and then assigned the desired value:

edit_field.value = ""

edit_field.value = desiredValue

then the contents of the field are not left selected.  This works when setting the contents from, say, the result of a button push, but I haven't figured out how to initially show the contents unselected.

[areohbee]

Hi John,

I tried starting an async task to do the assignment after the dialog box displayed but that didn't work for me.

Rob

[John R Ellis]

I tried starting an async task to do the assignment after the dialog box displayed but that didn't work for me.

Too bad.  It works from a static_text.mouse_down callback in my plugin.

[John R Ellis]

I tried starting an async task to do the assignment after the dialog box displayed but that didn't work for me.

I just noticed that forum software seems to have deleted a space in my post.  The code fragment should be:

edit_field.value = "<space>"

edit_field.value = desiredValue

Setting the value to the empty string doesn't work for me -- it needs to be a space.

[areohbee]

Hi John,

Still couldn't get it to work from an async task (with the space). I guess it has to be "synchronous" (like event handler), unless I'm doing something wrong.

Ciao for now,

Rob

[John R Ellis]

Oh well...