--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel Freiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > textField.getCharIndexAtPoint(); > > - Dan Freiman > > On 10/24/07, jamalwally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I would like to be able to highlight text in a TextArea that is under > > the user's mouse. > > > > In Flex 2 is there a way to get the text character that is closest to > > a given x,y position within a TextArea (or TextField)? > > > > Right now, I have each word in a separate TextArea and I listen for > > mouseOver events on each TextArea, but this is a bit of a pain. It > > would be cleaner to put all text into one TextArea, but this requires > > me to be able to determine the mapping between pixel coordinates and > > text character positions. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > This post follows up on an unresolved previous posting: > > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/21888 > > > > Thanks, > > James > > > > > > >
Thank you Dan, that's exactly what I was looking for. I just didn't notice it in the language reference. My apologies!
