I believe that the text events for arrow keys are not cancelable,
unfortunately. I ran into this when trying to write an autocomplete
control.
-Sho
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darron J. Schall
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 8:05 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] TextArea as Console: Controlling
cursor position and intercepting arrow keys
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:Grisha%40alum.mit.edu>
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:Grisha%40alum.mit.edu> >>
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.
>
>
>
