Setting TextBox.SelectedText property

04-11-2008 9:22 AM |

I already refered to this in another thread but I think this should have its own proper care.

What happens is that when TextBox.SelectedText property is set the rest of the text in the TextBox is cleared and the only remaining text is the text set to be the SelectedText and even so not selected.

Some thing like this:

 

TextBox tb = new TextBox;

tb.Text = "This is the text in the TextBox";

tb.SelectedText = "Selected Text";

 

After this code tb.Text whoud be only "Selected Text" with no selection.

Re: Setting TextBox.SelectedText property

04-17-2008 4:22 AM |

No news about this?

Re: Setting TextBox.SelectedText property

04-25-2008 10:29 PM |

I don't think it's a bug. I have just tried this:

TextBox tb = new TextBox();tb.Text = "This is the text in the TextBox";

LayoutRoot.Children.Add(tb);

tb.SelectionStart = 12;

tb.SelectionLength = 4;

tb.SelectedText = "abc";

And it works as expected (textbox contains "This is the abc in the TextBox"). Have you tried setting SelectionStart / SelectionLength before setting SelectedText?