Comments on: Setting text selection on a TextArea control in Flex http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/04/25/setting-text-selection-on-a-textarea-control-in-flex/ Just a bunch of Adobe Flex Examples Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:51:51 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dennis Mortensen http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/04/25/setting-text-selection-on-a-textarea-control-in-flex/comment-page-1/#comment-5781 Dennis Mortensen Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:09:23 +0000 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/04/25/setting-text-selection-on-a-textarea-control-in-flex/#comment-5781 Trying to capture the screen position of a dropped object in Flex 3. Have you seen any examples of this ? Thank You Dennis Trying to capture the screen position of a dropped object in Flex 3.
Have you seen any examples of this ?
Thank You
Dennis

]]> By: Rob Silverton http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/04/25/setting-text-selection-on-a-textarea-control-in-flex/comment-page-1/#comment-3161 Rob Silverton Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:03:48 +0000 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/04/25/setting-text-selection-on-a-textarea-control-in-flex/#comment-3161 Consistently the clearest and most useful Flex blog in town. Every time I google a Flex problem I have my fingers crossed that this blog will come up in the search results. Thanks for all your efforts. :-) rob Consistently the clearest and most useful Flex blog in town. Every time I google a Flex problem I have my fingers crossed that this blog will come up in the search results. Thanks for all your efforts. :-)

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]]> By: peterd http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/04/25/setting-text-selection-on-a-textarea-control-in-flex/comment-page-1/#comment-3162 peterd Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:57:29 +0000 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/04/25/setting-text-selection-on-a-textarea-control-in-flex/#comment-3162 Pete Moss, I don't believe you can in Flex 3.x, but Flex Gumbo/Flash Player 10 will offer greater control over text selection colors. Peter Pete Moss,

I don’t believe you can in Flex 3.x, but Flex Gumbo/Flash Player 10 will offer greater control over text selection colors.

Peter

]]> By: Pete Moss http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/04/25/setting-text-selection-on-a-textarea-control-in-flex/comment-page-1/#comment-3164 Pete Moss Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:58:25 +0000 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/04/25/setting-text-selection-on-a-textarea-control-in-flex/#comment-3164 Is there any way to set styles on the selection? E.G., can you set the backgroundColor, backgroundAlpha, etc.? Is there any way to set styles on the selection? E.G., can you set the backgroundColor, backgroundAlpha, etc.?

]]> By: JabbyPanda http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/04/25/setting-text-selection-on-a-textarea-control-in-flex/comment-page-1/#comment-3163 JabbyPanda Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:49:10 +0000 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/04/25/setting-text-selection-on-a-textarea-control-in-flex/#comment-3163 Thanks for sharing this sample, that was helpful 2 notes regarding this sample: 1) Sample code will work only for Adobe Flex SDK 3 and higher, because it uses interface mx.core.IUITextField that had appeared only from Adobe Flex SDK 3 2) Why we have to set explicitly tf.alwaysShowSelection = true in order to make method public method of textArea "setSelection" working, why tf.alwaysShowSelection property is not set to TRUE inside mx:TextArea code? Thanks for sharing this sample, that was helpful

2 notes regarding this sample:

1) Sample code will work only for Adobe Flex SDK 3 and higher, because it uses interface mx.core.IUITextField that had appeared only from Adobe Flex SDK 3

2) Why we have to set explicitly tf.alwaysShowSelection = true in order to make method public method of textArea “setSelection” working, why tf.alwaysShowSelection property is not set to TRUE inside mx:TextArea code?

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