How Do I Select Text in a Field?

[Sarah Reichelt]

It looks like some other handler is changing the selection after you 
make it. Open up the Message Watcher, select your text and see what 
messages are being triggered and acted on.

Sarah

> I have a very simple field that contains text. lockText is false and 
> traversalOn is true. But when I select any text in the field it 
> doesn't stay selected. The highlighted text immediately reverts to 
> unselected text and the cursor moves to the top left corner of the 
> field (before the first character) when I release the mouse. Is there 
> any other property that I need to set to allow text selection?
>
> joe.