Miles, Another stab, how about 'dis:
txtNews.editable = false; txtNews.enabled = false; That may or may not be of use. Hope this helps... -- Dok Skyymap Inc. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Miles Thompson Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 7:01 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] txtNews.selectable = false NOT taking. Tried that, setting it on the stage, and setting it again in code. Could still select and copy. Thanks for the suggestion. Miles At 05:02 PM 11/2/2005, you wrote: >Miles, > >If I understand things correctly, you're using a component TextArea, so >the '.selectable' property isn't supported by that component - that >would be for a standard text class (static or dynamic text fields). Try >using the .editable property on the TextArea component, I think that'll >accomplish what you desire... > >Hope this helps... > >The Doktor >Skyymap Inc. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Miles >Thompson >Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 3:48 PM >To: Flashcoders mailing list >Subject: [Flashcoders] txtNews.selectable = false NOT taking. > >Dear All, > >In my function AddStory, after assigning the content, this code, as I >understand it, should make it impossible to select text in the field. > > txtNews.selectable = false; > txtNews.selectable = false; > txtNews.redraw; > >The txtNews.selectable = false has been repeated twice in the desperate >hope that smacking it once to get its attention, then telling it again >what should be done might work. (It didn't, but years ago in a Visual >FoxPro app there was some property we had to assign twice to get it to >"stick".) > >On the stage, the editable property for this field is also set to false. > >The field was created by dragging the TextArea from the UI Components >section of the Components list. You know, the one with the built-in >scroll bar, responsive to mouse wheel, etc. > >Suggestions will be most welcome and enthusiastically tried. > >Regards - Miles Thompson > > >_______________________________________________ >Flashcoders mailing list >[email protected] >http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > >_______________________________________________ >Flashcoders mailing list >[email protected] >http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
