Make text entry in all controls and indicators respond to the Crlt-A (select all) keyboard shortcut

[littlesphaeroid]

Certain keyboard shortcuts are standard across operating systems and applications. When doing text entry, LabVIEW implements ctrl-c, crtl-v, and ctrl-arrow keys for text selection and manipulation, but does not allow ctrl-a. I have implemented this for string controls. 

I would like to see this be the default behavior for all text entry. 

In LabVIEW, ctrl-a currently selects all objects on the FP or BD. But when the cursor is in an active text field, ctrl-a should select all text in that field. This should include strings, tables, graph labels, control labels and captions, numeric controls and indicators, free labels, and so on, and should work in development and at runtime.

[Petru_Tarabuta]

+1. A current workaround is to triple-click inside the text field. This will select all the text. Double-clicking on a word will select that particular word. This works in edit-mode. I'm not sure if it works at run-time.

[Petru_Tarabuta]

P.S. Double-click (select word) and Triple-click (select whole text) do work at run-time and built EXEs too.

[littlesphaeroid]

I would say that clicking is not a "workaround". It's one of the many ways you can select text. Another is to click and drag. Another is to use shift and arrow/ctrl keys... If any of these standard features didn't work in LabVIEW, I'd ask for them as well 🙂