Yes, your application has to get focus. Look at the following...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; layout="absolute" creationComplete="onCreationComplete()" click="onCreationComplete()"> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ private function onCreationComplete():void { textArea.selectionBeginIndex=10; textArea.selectionEndIndex=19; textArea.setFocus(); } ]]> </mx:Script> <mx:TextArea id="textArea" width="300" text="The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"/> </mx:Application> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Keith Reinfeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Your application has to get focus before this will work. > > Regards, > > -Keith > http://keithreinfeld.home.comcast.net > <http://keithreinfeld.home.comcast.net/> > > > _____ > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of tchredeemed > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:30 AM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] textArea.setFocus(); > > > > When I launch my application, if I do this: > > textArea.selectionBeginIndex=10; > textArea.selectionEndIndex=20; > textArea.setFocus(); > > Should it not put the cursor into the textArea and have the 10th > through 20th characters selected? > > So that by default, if I put that in creationComplete, and they just > start typing when the app loads, it starts to replace the 10th through > 20th characters with what they type? > > As of right now, I do not see a cursor when I run. > > Any ideas?! >
