I've written a simple text editor using the textField. One feature is that the
user can select a word and make it a link. This pops up a Window component
with another textfield where they can enter the url. When the window is
closed, I update the main text field, and try to re-select the word like so:
Selection.setFocus (tf);
Selection.setSelection (beginIndex, endIndex);
This works, but then when I click somewhere else in the text field, the insert
caret appears where I clicked, but as soon as I let go, it jumps back to where
the code above set it. Only by clicking outside the window and back in can I
get the caret to move where I want.
I have read everything I can find on the web about flash's buggy textFields,
and have spend hours trying the semi-random work-arounds, to no avail.
I am using embeded fonts, which seem to cause extra problems, but I need
embeded fonts.
I also looked at using the using the TextArea component, but didn't see any way
to
access the both the plain text and html text contents like you can with a
textField.
Here's how I'm creating the textField:
holder.createTextField("tf", table.child_depth++, 0, 0, 520,
300);
this.tf = holder.tf;
this.sb = UIScrollBar (holder.createClassObject( UIScrollBar,
"sb", table.child_depth++));
this.sb.setScrollTarget(this.tf);
this.sb._y = this.tf._y;
this.tf.type = "input";
this.tf.selectable = true;
this.tf.multiline = true;
this.tf.wordWrap = true;
this.tf.html = true;
this.tf.embedFonts = true;
this.tf.border = true;
this.tf.borderColor = 0xa1a1a1;
Any suggestions or pointers?
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Chris Bare
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