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

[Piotr Caban]

On 16/02/16 01:04, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> 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.

Thanks,
Piotr