Hi Jared, > I generate a SWF file from a PDF containing some text rendered with a > known TrueType 1 font. I embed the font using the -f option to have a > DEFINEFONT2 tag in the SWF file. I have modified the swf compiler to > insert a dynamic textfield using ST_DEFINEEDITTEXT containing one > glyph of the embedded font and inserting it in a Sprite using > ST_PLACEOBJECT2. I was hoping that text selection would work on that > text even when that SWF file is loaded at run-time in another SWF > file. It doesn't seems to be the case. " textSnapshot.findText()" > works on the Sprite containing that static text/dynamic text field, > but none of the text selection methods works.
Hm, why do you need a textSnapshot, if the object containing the text is an EditText field? How does you Actionscript performing the text selection look like? Do you use setSelected etc. in onMouseDown/onMouseUp in order to adjust the selection area? Greetings Matthias
