Seems like there should simply be an event on a textArea called "selectionChanged"... alas there is not.
So here is what I've tried: mouseUp handler - Works great if user clicks in a textArea and drags out a selection and lets up on the mouse inside the bounds of the text area. BUT, if they let up outside, mouseUp doesn't fire... even though the user continues to adjust the selection while the mouse is outside the textArea! (it gives you that nice "line at time" style of text selection) mouseOut handler - Sure, it helps when it fires as soon as the mouse moves outside the textArea during the process of adjusting the selection, but then it's just frozen there while the user continues to move the mouse up and down and effect the "like at a time" style of text selection mentioned above. mouseMove handler - Only works while over the textArea... keyUp handler - YAY, seems to be pretty foolproof for catching text selection via the SHFT-Left Arrow and SHFT-Right Arrow. Isn't there an easy way to constantly listen to an objects property... like selectionEndIndex or selectionBeginIndex??? I assume it's getting updated while I adjust the text selection by moving the mouse outside the textArea. Cheers, Jeff -- 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/
