Comments on: Toggling whether a user can select text in a TextArea control in Flex http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/08/06/toggling-whether-a-user-can-select-text-in-a-textarea-control-in-flex/ A bunch of examples for Adobe Flex and ActionScript Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:53:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Stuart Ward http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/08/06/toggling-whether-a-user-can-select-text-in-a-textarea-control-in-flex/#comment-15392 Stuart Ward Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:30:49 +0000 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/08/06/toggling-whether-a-user-can-select-text-in-a-textarea-control-in-flex/#comment-15392 I agree with Adam. It is very frustrating and disappointing to users that expect to be able to simply click/drag to select text (especially in a datagrid). I posted a question in the Flexcoders forum about how to select text in a datagrid by the standard click/drag and the answer was... that there is no property or control that will allow this. You would have to try to create some custom code to emulate it (if it's possible at all). Stuart I agree with Adam. It is very frustrating and disappointing to users that expect to be able to simply click/drag to select text (especially in a datagrid).

I posted a question in the Flexcoders forum about how to select text in a datagrid by the standard click/drag and the answer was… that there is no property or control that will allow this. You would have to try to create some custom code to emulate it (if it’s possible at all).

Stuart

]]> By: adam http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/08/06/toggling-whether-a-user-can-select-text-in-a-textarea-control-in-flex/#comment-14735 adam Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:34:44 +0000 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/08/06/toggling-whether-a-user-can-select-text-in-a-textarea-control-in-flex/#comment-14735 That's great. But how can i make all the content of a flash/flex page selectable? I hate that you can't simply select text and do a simple ctrl+c or right click copy. Please help. Thanks for this site and all the great tips. That’s great. But how can i make all the content of a flash/flex page selectable? I hate that you can’t simply select text and do a simple ctrl+c or right click copy. Please help. Thanks for this site and all the great tips.

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