SelectAll when focus is obtained due to click

Carlos Pita wrote:
> Hi all, I need to select all contents from a TextCtrl
when the control 
> gets focus. I catch SET_FOCUS events on the textctrl
and call selectAll 
> from CallAfter, as suggested in another thread of this
list. But still 
> when the focus is gained by clicking over the control
contents (not over 
> the empty section but where there already is text),
selection is cleaned 
> up immediately after entering the control. A workaround
is calling 
> CallLater with a sensible timeout instead of CallLater
but this won't be 
> bulletproof and produces an anti-esthetic flicker. Is
it possible to 
> avoid this automatic text deselection? I'm using
libwxgtk-2.8.6. TIA. 

It's happening because of the repositioning of the caret at
the clicked 
location, which is essentially the same as setting the
selection to 
(pos, pos).  You can try intercepting the mouse-down and
mouse-up events 
and avoiding the default set position that is happening
there

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