high light text in gui text field

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#1

Hi,

The following code copies data from a table row to a text field (works fine).


set contents of text field "trackName" to contents of data cell "Track Name" of theRow

Is there an option I can add so that in the text being put in the text field is also high lighted (selected) without any additional action from the user (e.g. double click)?

Thanks,
Brad

#2 
set the first responder to text field "trackName"

Just out of curiosity is your code within a tell statement? There are no references to a window in your code. If you have your code inside a ‘tell window "blerf’" statement then there’s no problem, otherwise you’ll need to refer to the window that the text field is in:

set the first responder of window "blerf" to text field "trackName" of window "blerf"

Hope this helps,
Brad Bumgarner, CTA

#3

Brad, thanks your ‘responder’ code did what I wanted.

Yes, the statement was inside a tell statement.

Brad