# Making a Text Control selected once user hits a button

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/making-a-text-control-selected-once-user-hits-a-button/192656>\
**Category:** wxRuby\
**Created:** [August 3, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/making-a-text-control-selected-once-user-hits-a-button/192656 "2010-08-03T18:58:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![remosewa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@remosewa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/remosewa)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/making-a-text-control-selected-once-user-hits-a-button/192656/1 "2010-08-03T18:58:20Z")

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I want it so that when a user hits a button, that a text control is  
selected and they can just start typing away and update the text  
control. Is there anyway to do this?

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**Author:** ![remosewa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@remosewa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/remosewa)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 2:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/making-a-text-control-selected-once-user-hits-a-button/192656/2 "2010-08-04T02:02:12Z")

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evt\_button(button) do  
@edit\_control.set\_focus  
end

hth