Comments on: Non-Selectable TextArea for Flex 2

By: Ben Throop

Ben Throop — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:30:30 +0000

I thought this worked "Also, the textArea.editable flag doesnâ€t appear to update well either. Instead, use textArea.textField.type = TextFieldType.INPUT; // == editable = true textArea.textField.type = TextFieldType.DYNAMIC; // == editable = false" But that's not the case...

By: Ben Throop

Ben Throop — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:26:40 +0000

Dredging up an old thread here, but I found a workaround for this until TextArea is improved.
You can set properties directly on a TextArea’s textField property, which exposes its UITextField.

So, if you set textArea.textField.selectable = false, that appears to update itself properly.

Also, the textArea.editable flag doesn’t appear to update well either. Instead, use

textArea.textField.type = TextFieldType.INPUT; // == editable = true
textArea.textField.type = TextFieldType.DYNAMIC; // == editable = false

This is all hackery, but like many folks, I’ve burned more than enough days on trying to make TextArea behave. This works as far as I can tell.

By: Rob Pierce

Rob Pierce — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:03:28 +0000

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By: ShaX

ShaX — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 03:16:16 +0000

Hi guys!! i too faced the same problem. and found this solution.

TextAreaName.label.selectable = false;

this seems to work in Flash 8.

Cheers!

By: Alex Muntean

Alex Muntean — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:25:15 +0000

Actually is not Jesse's fault. I also tested and it seems that UITextField.selectable (at least inside TextArea) does not work as advertised: From LiveDocs: 'If selectable is set to false, the text in the text field does not respond to selection commands from the mouse or keyboard, and the text cannot be copied with the Copy command.' It seems that even if set to false, it is still responding to keyboard selection and Copy. So it might be as well a small bug in the framework.