Selecting or highlighting text in a textbox

[developer_jim]

Hello

I am working on an installer that uses NSIS with MUI2 and nsDialogs. On one of the pages we have textboxes and if the user input into those is invalid, I don't let the user continue.

In the case that the user's entry is invalid, I set the focus back to the offending textbox. When I set the focus, I would like to also highlight the text within that textbox. How do I highlight said text?

I have looked through the nsDialog documentation to no avail. I have also looked through the code for the MUI2 Directory Page whose textbox starts focused with its text highlighted. This did not help either.

Here is a snippet of my leave function for that particular page.

code:
Function leavePage

	StrLen $5 $entry

	${If} $5 != 2

                messageBox MB_OK "Please enter a valid entry."

		${NSD_SetFocus} $editBox

                Abort

        ${EndIf}

FunctionEnd

[Afrow UK]

code:
SendMessage $editBox ${EM_SETSEL} 0 -1

Stu

[developer_jim]

That works perfectly. Thanks.