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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>No, because the Selection is now the button...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial>so you need to trap onKeyDown and onMouseDown and get the caret then as well, as the caret can be moved with the keys or the mouse without firing the change event on the textField. I have a plan though - for next week - have a great weekend,</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Dave Burnett<BR><B>Sent:</B> Fri 08/01/2010 17:26<BR><B>To:</B> Xerte list<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Xerte] Inserting Special Characters<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125); FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">AS3 I think. It’s Selection.getCaretIndex() in AS2.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal>Does that do what you need?<BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125); FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"></SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Dave Burnett<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 08, 2010 4:41 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Xerte list<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Xerte] Inserting Special Characters</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125); FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">I have it working now, but there doesn’t seem to be a way of detecting when the position of the caret moves – i.e. the user uses the mouse to put it somewhere else in the text – I can’t seem to find a change event for that. It works fine if you’re typing away, hit the special button to add your char, then carry on typing, but doing later might be troublesome…</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"></SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125); FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Eventually this will be a separate swf that provides all the special characters in about 14 languages, with a combo for language, then buttons for each char, so I can probably put all the code in that SWF and register that as the Selection listener rather than use rootIcon – if I have to use onEnterFrame to poll, at least then I can turn it on and off as focus shifts from input text fields to other objects and back again, and only poll while an input field has the focus, </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"></SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 72pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Dave Burnett<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 08, 2010 4:14 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Xerte list<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Xerte] Inserting Special Characters</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 108pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Dave Burnett<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 08, 2010 4:09 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Xerte list<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Xerte] Inserting Special Characters</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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