Your application has to get focus before this will work. Regards,
-Keith http://keithreinfeld.home.comcast.net <http://keithreinfeld.home.comcast.net/> _____ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tchredeemed Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:30 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] textArea.setFocus(); When I launch my application, if I do this: textArea.selectionBeginIndex=10; textArea.selectionEndIndex=20; textArea.setFocus(); Should it not put the cursor into the textArea and have the 10th through 20th characters selected? So that by default, if I put that in creationComplete, and they just start typing when the app loads, it starts to replace the 10th through 20th characters with what they type? As of right now, I do not see a cursor when I run. Any ideas?!