Re: user32: Select text control content while setting initial dialog focus

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

Piotr Caban  wrote:
> > > --- a/dlls/user32/dialog.c
> > > +++ b/dlls/user32/dialog.c
> > > @@ -707,7 +707,11 @@ static HWND DIALOG_CreateIndirect( HINSTANCE hInst, LPCVOID dlgTemplate,
> > >                   focus = GetNextDlgTabItem( hwnd, 0, FALSE );
> > >                   if (!focus) focus = GetNextDlgGroupItem( hwnd, 0, FALSE );
> > >                   if (focus)
> > > -
> > >            {
> > > -
> > >                if (SendMessageW( focus, WM_GETDLGCODE, 0, 0 ) & DLGC_HASSETSEL)
> > > -
> > >                    SendMessageW( focus, EM_SETSEL, 0, -1 );
> > >                 SetFocus( focus );
> > > -
> > >            }
> > >         }
> >
> > Selecting the text on SetFocus() is the job of DefDlgProc(), it's worth
> > to investigate why it doesn't work.
>
> It works as expected. Calling SetFocus on edit HWND is not selecting the 
> text on windows either.
>
> The text will be selected if you call SetFocus/WM_NEXTDLGCTL on the 
> dialog window.

A message test would be more convincing then.