Interesting problem. I think I might add truncate functionality to a text-based itemRenderer rather than add highlighting to Label. I haven't done either, so take that into account.
Tracy Spratt Lariat Services Flex development bandwidth available ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Greg Hess Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 3:50 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Highlighting Label text characters Well, once I can get the text to highlight in the Label, I will need to do the same in the truncated tooltip. On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Tracy Spratt <tspr...@lariatinc.com <mailto:tspratt%40lariatinc.com> > wrote: > What will happen if the matched characters are in the truncated part? > > > > Tracy Spratt > Lariat Services > > Flex development bandwidth available > > ________________________________ > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ] On > Behalf Of Greg Hess > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 2:52 PM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcoders] Highlighting Label text characters > > > > Hi All, > > I am displaying search results in a DataGrid and I have a custom > ItemRenderer for the "Name" column and I need to highlight the text in > the Label that matched the search query. I have seen support for this > in TextArea and TextField.setSelection(..) and also done with HTML > text however I need the truncating feature of the Label. > > I tried extending Label and providing a highlight( text:String ) > function that calls down to the Label internal > TextField.setSelection(..) but it is not working...not sure why... > > Does anyone know how I can achieve this? > > Any help much appreciated, > > Greg > >
