Why are some textboxes not accepting Control + A shortcut to select all by default

Question

I have found a few textboxes here and there in my program that accepts Control+A shortcut to select the entire text \"by default\" with \"no coding\".

I don\'t know

Answer 1

You might be looking for the ShortcutsEnabled property. Setting it to true would allow your text boxes to implement the Ctrl+A shortcut (among others). From the documentation:

Use the ShortcutsEnabled property to enable or disable the following shortcut key combinations:

• CTRL+Z

• CTRL+E

• CTRL+C

• CTRL+Y

• CTRL+X

• CTRL+BACKSPACE

• CTRL+V

• CTRL+DELETE

• CTRL+A

• SHIFT+DELETE

• CTRL+L

• SHIFT+INSERT

• CTRL+R

However, the documentation states:

The TextBox control does not support the CTRL+A shortcut key when the Multiline property value is true.

You will probably have to use another subclass of TextBoxBase, such as RichTextBox, for that to work.