In a handler for the 'textInput' event, set event.text = event.text.toUpperCase(). The 'textInput' event is dispatched after the text has been typed (or converted by an IME) but before it has been inserted into the TextField. The 'change' event is dispatched after the text has been inserted.
Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of per.olesen Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 1:19 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Turn all keyboard input into upper-case for all TextInput and TextArea --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Alex Harui <aha...@...> wrote: > > Unfortunately, the text controls don't use events as input events, but > dispatch them as notifications instead, so you can't fake events to them. > Okay, that explains why dispatching KeyboardEvent on TextField and TextEvent on TextInput doesn't work :-( > Most brute force way is to set text to toUpperCase on the change event. Could > be slow on large strings and you may have to track and restore selection. We got something near working with this approach, but yes, it resets selection, puts cursor in front of text etc. All things we will need to track and change then. Any other good ideas out there?
