I have '\r' r characters in that myTextArea.text,
but not '\n' n ones.
Should I try to replace r with n?
Any useful TextArea properties to display new lines?
Please advise.
TIA,
Oleg
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Oleg Konovalov" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am working on old Flex3 (Cairngorm2) app.
> One of TextArea's there is completely ignoring new lines (Carriage
> Return/Line Feed)
> and even skips some spaces (others work fine).
>
> Code is pretty simple (well, little simplified here):
>
> ...
>
> private function updateText(evt:Event):void {
> var event:UpdateEvent = new UpdateEvent(UpdateEvent.UPDATE_EVENT);
> event.myText=myText.text;
> trace("myText"+event.myText) //added by me
> event.dispatch();
> }
>
>
> I have read about weird behaviors of TextArea (skipping or even doubling some
> characters) on the net,
> but so far could not find anything applicable in that case.
>
> For example, something like myText.text.replace("\n", "\r") doesn't change
> anything.
> I guess, there is no "\n" there.
>
> If I trace, it returns line without newlines (like:
> 'startskip1lineskip2linesend;').
> But if I copy-paste that line to say another TextArea on the screen (or non
> flex Chat app, I would get multiline text:
> 'start
>
> skip1line
>
>
> skip2lines
> end;
>
> And for various reasons I can't debug that app.
>
> Any idea what might be wrong and how to fix it?
>
> Please help!
>
> TIA,
> Oleg.
> P.S.: App connects to SPs in the Database via Web Service. No BlazeDS.
>
