It works on my laptop which is on Flash 9, so it could be a bug in Player
10. When I get back to work I'll downgrade, test it and re-upgrade to verify
it :)

-Josh

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Josh McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> As in, I type something in any text editor (or just hilight & cmd-c in the
> console, etc), go to a textarea and hit cmd-v. Visually in the textarea it
> looks like it should, but .text has no newlines.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Kenneth Sutherland <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>  How are you doing the code to copy and paste?
>>
>> Setting up a sting in MXML can look different than if you set it in
>> actionscript.  This may well be the issue.
>>
>> Eg.
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>>
>> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; layout="
>> vertical">
>>
>> <mx:Script >
>>
>>       <![CDATA[
>>
>>             *private* *var* word : String = *"&amp;\n hello"*;
>>
>>
>>
>>       ]]>
>>
>> </mx:Script>
>>
>>       <*mx:VBox*>
>>
>>             <mx:TextArea text="{word}" />
>>
>>             <mx:TextArea text="&amp;\n hello" />
>>
>>
>>
>>       </mx:VBox>
>>
>> </mx:Application>
>>
>>
>>
>> This displays
>>
>> &amp;
>>
>>  hello
>>
>> in the first box and
>>
>>
>>
>> &\n hello
>>
>> In the second box.
>>
>>
>>
>> HTH or at least gives you something to look into,
>>
>> Kenneth.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
>> Behalf Of *Josh McDonald
>> *Sent:* 22 October 2008 08:25
>> *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
>> *Subject:* [flexcoders] WTF? When pasting into a textarea (on mac), all
>> my newlines disappear!
>>
>>
>>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I'm having this problem on safari and Firefox, and it's a *big* problem.
>> Any time I paste a bunch of text into my <mx:textarea/> it all looks OK, but
>> the newlines aren't really there. Trace(comp.text) shows they're not there,
>> and if I copy from the textarea they're gone.
>>
>> Is this a known bug, or am I forgetting some magic setting or something? I
>> *really* need to be able to paste into this app!
>>
>> -Josh
>>
>> --
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