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timmaktu
timmaktu

Reputation: 163

Highlight user selected text in TextField with user selected color

I wish to provide simple highlighting feature where a user selects some range of text in a TextField and selects a color and that text's background is highlighted with that color like a marker, its a standard feature on most text editors and word processors. How to achieve this in AS3 (not flex) esp without using html/css in TextField.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1270

Answers (2)

timmaktu
timmaktu

Reputation: 163

Solution here: http://tom-lee.blogspot.in/2007/01/textfield-highlighter-class-for-flex.html

Also while hunting for solutions I came accross a generally useful class from Greensock called TextMetrics.

Upvotes: 0

Marin Petkov
Marin Petkov

Reputation: 2158

Here is a good example of what you want to do: http://blog.formatlos.de/2009/06/22/as3-texthighlighter/

Upvotes: 1

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