What you're looking for is setSelection() to set the cursor position. Simply put the same value in for the start and end value to place the caret instead of the selection. However I'm not sure this is going to be as responsive as you like. You may want to consider using a different design such as having the history in a textarea and having the user input in a textinput to simplify this problem.
- Dan On 12/7/06, chuvakgu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all, How does one control position of the cursor inside a mx:TextArea? What I am really trying to do is create a console out of a TextArea. A user would enter commands at a prompt, and at some point they would be sent to the server for evaluation. I looked for something like this but didn't find... So, control of cursor will come in a case such as: I want to use up-arrow as history, for example, but while I can intercept the up-arrow on a keyDown or keyUp event and show the item from history, the cursor still moves. In this case, maybe intercepting the arrow's defautl behavior is good enough, but in another case (e.g., if a line ends with \, the next line is indented - but the cursor by default is in the first column, but whne I mouse click on the area, it ends up in the proper place). Thanks.
