[Xerte] Line breaks in text areas

[Julian Tenney]

I think you need to set wordwrap and multiline to true on the textfield.
You need to address the textfield itself, which is iconID.txt, i.e.
iconID.txt.multiline = true; Otherwise see the Flash help.

There is a LO property called selectableText. Set that to 1 to allow
users to select and copy / paste text out of the LO.

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fred Riley
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 3:49 PM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Line breaks in text areas

A small and unimportant query. An app I'm working on has text entry
areas for the user to type their thoughts into. This is implemented by
an 'entry framework' icon. I notice that the user can't put any line
breaks into their text - hitting Enter whilst typing does nothing. Is
this a fixed feature, or can it be tweaked? Not a big deal, mind.

The prototype app is at
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ntzfr/rlos/mentoring/test/happyhamster.htm
and an example input is in Communication 2/8.

On a tangent to this, the user can't select pre-existing text in the
application. I know that you can set Flash to allow text selection in
movies, so can this be done in Xerte? Again, not at all important, just
curiousity. 

Cheers

Fred

Fred Riley
Learning Technologist
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy, University of Nottingham
Vcard: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/about/fr_uon.vcf 
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