Thanks everyone for your feedback!  I used the command recommend by Walt for
the select all and this is working just great...

Select the text of fld fFieldName" seems to work.

Warren

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Walt Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, thanks Klaus, I figured that out when I started playing right after
> the
> exciting LiveCode TV episode.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Klaus on-rev
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 9:51 AM
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Subject: Re: Code To Minick Control-A, Control-C, Control-V (Select All,
> Copy, Paste)
>
>  Hi Walt,
>
> > Of interest, if "Select the text of me" is in the mouseUp handler of
> > the field, it selects NOT all of the text, but all the lines from the
> > mouse location down.
>
> try:
> ...
> select char 1 to -1 of me
> ...
>
> > Walt
>
> Best
>
> Klaus
>
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