[Request] Edit Box with select text

[Tiles]

We have a Block, Replace Selection command in the Actions of the Edit Box. But i miss an action to select parts or the whole text. Would be neat

[Skeets]

Use the Rich Text Object. It has "select whole text" and "select text"

[Tiles]

Yeah, but it is no Edit Box ...

[DJFuego]

If you must use the edit box then use control X or the Key object
create an event to grab focus then Ctrl + A or... if it's text you want to store just create an event to set global string to Edit box.

[Tiles]

Thanks for the tip. But that's not what i am looking for.

What i wanted to do is that the whole text of my edit box is selected when i give it focus. Without touching any key.

[lembi2001]

Why would you use the Edit box for this sort of thing when the Rich Edit object has so many more different actions?

Not criticising, just wondering. I only use the edit box to display oe line of variable text but if i needed something to automatically overwrite what was in the box i use the Rich Edit Object.

Again just curious.

[Tiles]

I simply don't need all those features that comes with the Rich Edit Object. I just want to display one line too. Anyways, i will use Rich Edit Object now.

[raytrace]

One problem I found with the RTF object was that you have no control over what the users can put in the box. I tried to create a syntax colouring tool for lua but it quickly became pointless - users can paste in pictures, hyperlinks, tables, movies! etc
One of the most useful things of RTF2 is the "protection" mode, but when I try to use this on more than one section of text MMF2 crashes.

At the moment I've decided to use strings and other objects to display the text; it gives greater control, and you can customize the text with expanding buttons and other things like that

[Gustav]

Yes, this are the worst issues of the RTF object. :sick: