It looks like we are back to auto-selecting the text of a TextEntryDialog
when the dialog appears on Windows. This is fine with me, but the Mac
version doesn't do this. I seem to remember us discussing this before, is
the lack of text selection a Apple Human Interface Guideline (HIG) or is the
Mac code just lagging behind? I dislike the lack of text selection for
single line fields in text dialogs, so I'm curious
Hmm, I just tested on Windows and Mac to double-check behaviour of plain
TextCtrls and it looks like on Windows as you tab between fields all the
text is auto-selected for plain, password, and TE_RICH2 styles. On the Mac
however, all the text is selected for the password field, but the cursor
position is remembered for plain and rich text style variations, so the text
isn't auto-selected. I love cross-platform issues
It looks like we are back to auto-selecting the text of a TextEntryDialog
when the dialog appears on Windows. This is fine with me, but the Mac
version doesn't do this. I seem to remember us discussing this before, is
the lack of text selection a Apple Human Interface Guideline (HIG) or is the
Mac code just lagging behind? I dislike the lack of text selection for
single line fields in text dialogs, so I'm curious
TextCtrl auto selection is up to the specific wx port to implement or not. wxMSW does it because it is common behavior in other Windows apps. wxMac probably should do it too as I see it happening there too (System Prefrences for example,) although I don't know if the HIG has anythign to say about it or not. Please enter a bug report about this.
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Robin Dunn
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