R – TextField() – how to prevent mouse select

actionscript-3flex3

How can I prevent mouse selecting (and moving caret) with Editable TextField(),
this one does not seem to fully work when SELECTING text, but it prevents clicking. I want to keep cursor in place where its going.

protected function handleMouseDEvent(evt:MouseEvent):void {
if (evt.type == MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN) {
var max : int;
max = this.text.length;
this.setSelection(max, max) // SET CURSOR POSITION  
}
}

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How about selectable="false"?

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R – Loading ISO8851 text file to TextField()

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I found the answer for you. Good news: no need for PHP magic! Here's how to do it:

var ldr:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
ldr.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.BINARY;
ldr.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, errorHandler);
ldr.addEventListener(SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR, errorHandler);
ldr.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, function (event:Event):void {
    var bytes:ByteArray = ByteArray(ldr.data); 
    var text:String = bytes.readMultiByte(bytes.length, "iso-8859-1");
    ...
});
ldr.load(new URLRequest('http://server.dom/path/to/your-file'));

You need to substitute "iso-8859-1" with the appropriate encoding. You can find the list of valid encodings here.

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