I want to change the blinking text cursor color of Text Input in Flex 4...
How can I change it ?
Is there any way to handle it, or it can be only controlled by Flash Player ???
I had a similar question about this a while ago. I never found a way to update the actual cursor, so I got creative with the solution. My solution was to have two textfields stacked. One input field on top of a dynamic field.
Set the alpha of the input field to 0. Then, add a CHANGE event listener to the input field. In the handler, update the dynamic field and reposition your cursor based on the textWidth.
Not ideal, but it did the job.
I had solved this problem,
Actually there was a problem in skinning of text input.
If we set textinput skin's richeditabletext's alpha to 75 or some down value, flash player makes cursor color white itself.
So by increasing that alpha value, I got the cursor color black.
I change the TextField.textColor = OxFFFFFF, the cursor changes into white as well. Works for my case when I need the same color for the blinking cursor and text.
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With any of the editable text fields such as RichEditableText, TextArea and any TextFlow containers the cursor is always the familiar text entry pipe character with serifs thing. Whatever.
I need to be able to change that to a hand cursor as it moves over an inline graphic image and then revert back to text entry cursor on mouse out.
I've been looking at the CursorManager class but have had no luck yet.
UPDATE:
I found a class FlowElementMouseEventManager that manages the cursor as it moves over a text flow container. It's not clear how to change the cursor to a hand cursor yet but the LinkElement will change to a hand cursor when the mouse is over it and the CTRL is held down.
Set buttonmode = true for that inline graphic image and you are good to go
btnPlanet.mouseEnabled = false;
btnPlanet.mouseChildren = false;
i have button and it's called btnPlanet, i want to change button color when they are disabled, but the button contain text, that if i change button color using colorTransform, it make my text dismissed, and filled with color that i use from colorTransform, can i change only color of shape in button without change text color? or make it grayscale at least? thank you, i'm sorry if i have bad grammar english
Apply alpha/colorTransform/whatever to everything EXCEPT text field.
Is it your own button or you're using some kind of component?
If it's your own I bet you have something like background for shape and TextField on top of that.
If it's a component I'm pretty sure you should be able to access it as well.
that's not hard.set instance name of your shape in your button for example myShape. Then write:
btnPlanet.myShape.transform.colorTransform=new ColorTransform(your colortransform settings)
Can I remove this blinking cursor from a textfield?
Thanks,
Not in a INPUT Textfield.
You can still use some ticks with a Dynamic textfield which listens to KEY_UP events, but you'll have to do all the things by yourself (delete, home key, end key...), and you can forget about things like copy/paste, undo, mouse selection...
It's a tricky way. What can also work, is hide the textfield by setting its textcolor to the background color (so you won't see the cursor), or set its alpha to 0, then copy the text into another dynamic text field on KEY_UP events. Still, it's quite a hack.
Good luck.
I am working on a class similar to the standard text field. I actually use the default TextField inside it. My only problem is that the textField does not work correctly. If I set it to textField.type = TextFieldType.INPUT, I can delete the text, but I can't enter new text. Also, the cursor is not being displayed. This is my Class (part of it): http://pastebin.com/LsgQjxpa
The skin is like this: http://pastebin.com/yDhEGHLm
I can't figure out what exactly I am doing wrong. I also have to mention that I am compiling for AIR Mobile and testing directly from Flash Builder
One problem appears to be that you have set the selectable property to false. This makes sense when type is TextFieldType.DYNAMIC. However, it's problematic when the type is TextFieldType.INPUT.
When you disable selection of the text, no cursor is displayed. I am able to still edit the text. However, since the cursor is not visible I cannot change it's position and the text gets added in front of any existing text.
My scene has a TextField object.
I set up my TextField as DynamicText because I need to change it programmatically.
How do I prevent mouse cursor change to I-Beam form when it's above TextField?
Also, user of my flash application is able to select text of this TextField using mouse cursor. I would like to disable this behavoiur too.
In the TextField properties panel, there is an icon that reads "Selectable", you need to uncheck it, and you will disable both.
EDIT: The icon is right below the "Anti-Alias" drop down, first in row. There is a Ab (the b is selected/highlighted) inside.
If you want to do this by ActionScript, the code is:
myTextField.selectable = false;
Hope this helps!
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/text/TextField.html?filter_flash=cs5&filter_flashplayer=10.2&filter_air=2.6
You are looking for the property selectable