Thanks Mac, You know, I just assumed it would work in Flex. In Flash I used to be able to call redraw() right after setting the vPosition property and it would work ok. I don't suppose there is a simple one liner that does the job in Flex?? Yours truly, -Brian
vardpenguin wrote: >You're doing it correctly, the problem is that when you set the >vPosition, the 'msg' string has not been fully loaded into the >textArea yet. > >You need to do some sort of check to make sure the textArea content >change has been completed, or wait a few moments before you set vPosition. > >-Mac > > >--- In [email protected], Brian Lesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Possibly really dumb question but shouldn't this scroll a TextArea to >>the bottom: >> >>public function writeln(msg:String):void{ >> traceArea.text += msg + "\n"; >> traceArea.vPosition = traceArea.maxVPosition; >>} >> >>Where traceArea is a TextArea. >> >>It doesn't seem to work for me in Flex Beta 1. >> >>Yours truly, >>-Brian >> >> >> > > > > > > >-- >Flexcoders Mailing List >FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt >Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > -- ______________________________________________________________________ Brian Lesser Assistant Director, Teaching and Technology Support Computing and Communications Services Ryerson University 350 Victoria St. Toronto, Ontario Phone: (416) 979-5000 ext. 6835 M5B 2K3 Fax: (416) 979-5220 Office: AB48D E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Enter through LB66) Web: http://www.ryerson.ca/~blesser ______________________________________________________________________ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
