Benjamin, Thanks for the suggestions. I think at this point I am just going to accept that when a field becomes editable the insertion point is set to the end of the field. I have hopes that someday flash 8.5 text fields will be supported and that this will give me the ability to do what I have described.
Daniel. Benjamin Shine wrote: > I suggest putting a transparent overlay on top of the non-selected > text field. When the overlay gets a click, set editable of the > associated text field to true, set the focus to that text field, and > hide the overlay. > > The kind of text measurements required to go from a click's x, y > position to its position in the text is really expensive and fragile, > if it's even possible. Instead, look at the text's > getSelectionPosition() and getSelectionSize() methods. When LzFocus > is on the text field, getSelectionPosition() is the index of the > insertion point into the text's string. > > Be wary of the order and timing of events triggered by a user event. > The methods that operate on a text field's selection only work > properly if they're called when the text field has focus, but focus > is lost easily. We handle this with much gnashing of teeth in the > rich text editor in the incubator; see especially the formatbtn and > the restore selection delegate. > > On Mar 10, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Daniel Pool wrote: > >> I can see two possible solutions but I don't know how to implement >> either of them. For selected but non-editable fields: >> 1...When the field gets a click set the editable property to true and >> then post the click event to the field again, or create an event to >> post >> to the field. >> 2...When the field gets the click from the x,y position of the click >> determine the offset into the text-string of the field and call >> setSelection based on the offset into the text-string. > > > benjamin shine > software engineer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ Laszlo-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user
