Hello,
I'm trying to build a system which lets users format selected text
from an input field using a drop down menu.
So the idea would be that you could select some text, go to the
"format" menu, choose "italic" and the selection would be italicised.
I'm using the Adobe MenuBar and Menu components from Flash 8.
The problem is that clicking on the menu removes the selection from
the text. I can use Selection.getEndIndex and
Selection.getBeginIndex to record the selection state and so I know
which bit of the text to format. This works fine.
The problem is when you click on the menu the selection still
disappears which is ugly and awkward for the user and even when I
use SetSelection to put the selection back once the menu item has
been chosen the MenuBar fires some event which removes it again.
So my question is, Has anybody else done this and made it work?
I've considered
- Clever hacks to "fake" the selection being there - only there
doesn't seem to be a easy way to inverse the text in a textfield to
fake a selection box.
- Is there a way to stop the MenuBar taking the focus and clearing
the selection?
- Are there other MenuBar components out there which don't take the
focus and selection so wouldn't have this problem.
I've been looking at other text editors built in Flash like
www.flashtexteditor.com and they either use buttons for text
formatting or suffer from the "selection disappears" problem
so it may be insolvable. Either way I'd be interested to hear what
other people have done.
Cheers
Joe
Joe Cutting
Computer exhibits and installations
www.joecutting.com
96 Heslington Road, York, YO10 5BL
01904 627428
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