selectAll

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Determines if the value contained in a control initially appears selected (highlighted) when tabbing to the control.

Property of

Combobox, Entryfield, SpinBox

Description

Set selectAll to true to give the user a shortcut for deleting or replacing the initial value in an entry field, a spin box, or a combobox. The entire value is highlighted when the user tabs to the control. The first character the user enters overwrites the value. Pressing Del or Backspace deletes the value. Pressing a direction key (such as Home or End) removes the highlight without erasing the value.

Clicking a control ignores selectAll; the cursor goes to the position clicked, and nothing is highlighted.

comboBox ...

• The default for selectAll is True.  

• Setting selectAll to False prevents the entire combobox value from being highlighted when the combobox is given focus or when scrolling through option strings in the dropdown list.