anybody have any ideas on this one?
i'm trying to put an event on a TextRange object and having some issues. I
> know that natively I cannot add events to TextRange objects, so I googled
> and found a way of doing it. The goal is to be able to put a tooltip or
> show an element when somebody mouses over a certain textrange in a text
> field, however the event is not firing on mouseover and not sure why
>
> I have LCTextRange.as and CustomEventDispatcher.as and it inherits like
> this:
>
> LCTextRange -> CustomEventDispatcher->TextRange
>
> I am creating a new LCTextRange instance like so:
>
> var tr:LCTextRange = new LCTextRange(textArea, false,
> textArea.text.indexOf(item, prevEndIndex), textArea.text.indexOf(item,
> prevEndIndex)+item.length);
>
> My events are not firing and not sure why, here's what I've done.
>
> LCTextRange.as
>
> public class LCTextRange extends CustomEventDispatcher
> {
> override public function LCTextRange(owner:UIComponent,
> modifiesSelection:Boolean=false, beginIndex:int=-1, endIndex:int=-1)
> {
> super(owner, modifiesSelection, beginIndex, endIndex);
> this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,showToolTip); //CLICK
> is here for testing
> }
>
> private function showToolTip(e:Event):void
> {
> Alert.show('over');
> }
> }
>
> and here is the CustomEventDispatcher.as
>
> public class CustomEventDispatcher extends TextRange implements
> IEventDispatcher
> {
> private var eventDispatcher:EventDispatcher;
>
> public function CustomEventDispatcher(owner:UIComponent,
> modifiesSelection:Boolean = false,
> beginIndex:int = -1, endIndex:int = -1)
> {
> super(owner,modifiesSelection,beginIndex,endIndex);
> eventDispatcher = new EventDispatcher(this);
> }
>
> public function addEventListener(type:String, listener:Function,
> useCapture:Boolean=false, priority:int=0,
> useWeakReference:Boolean=false):void
> {
> eventDispatcher.addEventListener(type, listener, useCapture,
> priority, useWeakReference);
> }
> ....... and all the other IEventDispatcher functions.
>
>
>
