Yep, Anthony and I came up with the same solution, except I took it one step further and wrote the code for it ;)
Note to also take the scrollbars width/height into account (using textarea.verticalScrollBar/textArea.horizontalScrollBar), just so you don't create another issue by solving this one On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Anthony Pace <[email protected]> wrote: > I know its a bit hackish but it should work. > > You could get the width and height of the text field, and overlay a > transparent shape that match the dimensions. > > [email protected] wrote: >> >> I'll have to prevent users to copy text from a TextArea. In Flex I saw you >> do that bij setting a selectable attribute of the mx.controls.TextArea to >> false. >> >> However, this seems not possible with the fl.controls.TextArea, which is >> used in Flash CS4 / AS3. >> >> Does someone has a tip or hint. >> Thanks. >> >> PS. setting editable of the TextArea to false doesn't help, and setting >> the enabled attribute of the TextArea to false gives a disabled look and is >> not the intention. >> >> Peter van der Post >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
