Since TextEvents are cancellable, you can also look at using event.preventDefault(); in the TEXT_INPUT event handler to stop the Flash Player from automatically moving the cursor when the up key is pressed.
-d Daniel Freiman wrote: > > 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] > <mailto:[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. > > >
