[flexcoders] getCharBounds not working on AIR?

[b_alen]

It seems a bit ridiculous but it's true. Not just that you have to use
all sorts of hacks to get access to good old TextField (IUITextField)
in Flex  in order to even think of accessing characters' Rectangles.
Once you do manage to cut your way through, you get a very nasty
disappointment that IUITextField.getCharBounds() works perfectly in
Flex Web apps, but returns some bizarre incorrect values when running
on AIR.

If anyone has any suggestion, I'd really appreciate it very much.
We're in terrible deadline and this is one of the crucial functionalities.


var tf:TextAreaExtended = new TextAreaExtended();
tf._textField.text = "dsfsdf sfd sf dsf sfdsd fdsfdsfdsfdsfdsf fds";
addChild(tf);
var rect:Rectangle = tf._textField.getCharBoundaries(20);

// I get values for rect.left something like 0.58888888888888888
// same goes for other rect properties, very weird.

// extended TextArea which gives access to TextField
package
{
        import mx.controls.TextArea;
        import mx.core.IUITextField;

        public class TextAreaExtended extends TextArea
        {
                public function TextAreaExtended()
                {
                        createChildren();

                }
                
                public function get _textField():IUITextField{
                        return textField;
                }
        }
}