Is the purpose of your control to filter characters entered and disallow some? If so, just use the restrict property:
<mx:TextInput restrict="-.0123456789"/> And you're done. Just a thought because you're not clear about what you want to accomplish. While your discovery could definitely be a bug to report to Adobe--and you should report it anyway--it seems like your custom control doesn't include any new behavior you won't get by configuring an out-of-the-box TextInput control. Cheers, Erik ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of shawnsvacha Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 9:53 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] TextEvent.TEXT_INPUT preventDefault not working on Linux Has anyone run into this before? On Linux the preventDefault event for a TextEvent.TEXT_INPUT event does not hide the characters entered. This works fine on OSX and Windows, but not Linux. Here is example code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml> " layout="absolute" xmlns:ns1="*"> <ns1:CustomTextField x="10" y="10" width="500" height="22"/> </mx:WindowedApplication> package { import flash.events.TextEvent; import flash.text.TextField; import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize; import flash.text.TextFieldType; import mx.core.UIComponent; public class CustomTextField extends UIComponent { public function CustomTextField() { var _customTF:TextField = new TextField(); _customTF.x = 0; _customTF.y = 0; _customTF.width = 480; _customTF.height = 22; _customTF.type = TextFieldType.INPUT; _customTF.multiline = true; _customTF.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT; _customTF.wordWrap = true; _customTF.maxChars = 1024; addChild(_customTF); _customTF.addEventListener(TextEvent.TEXT_INPUT, dontShowTextInput); } private function dontShowTextInput(e:TextEvent):void { e.preventDefault(); } } }
