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How to select (highlight and receive focus) entire text of selected cell in Delphi DBGrid?

Hello,

I have a simple DBGrid, DBNavigator, and an 'Edit' button which simplly calls DBNavigator.BtnClick(nbEdit);

When the user clicks Edit, I want the text in the selected cell (just the text - not the whole cell) to be highlighted - as if ready to be overwritten; whereas when I do DBGid.SetFocus then DBNavigator.BtnClick(nbEdit) the whole cell is highlighted.

how can I select the entire text of a selected cell (or alternatively simulate 2 mouse clicks programatically)

Thanks in advance for all efforts.
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Ferruccio Accalai

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Freddy1990

You could check out NextGrid, it's a fairly cheap grid component compared to other payed components. I believe it also has a DBGrid version. http://www.bergsoft.net/component/next-grid/overview.htm
It has a lot of fieldtypes, including editable fields. It alos allows you to make "slides". The control is not as advanced maybe as DevExpress' grid components, but it's easy to use, has a lot of features and might be just what you need. there's a demo you can download. I'm pretty satisfied with the component anyway, with a lot of BergSoft's components actually.

samenglish

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Ferruccio68 and Geert Gruwez: real experts - thank you.
gurkal: thanks for the extra useful info, I appreciate it.
Freddy1990: honourable mention, I'll keep that in mind.