to select and make bold with HTML text...
Hi,
I'm trying to make a text editor in flash but I'm having way too much trouble with it :( (my scripting is just too bad I guess)
What I'm trying to do is a 'bold' button. With this button I want selected text to be bold; if no text is selected I want the text that is inserted after 'bold' to be bold (sounds confusing but the same way as for example MS Word)
What I have now is this:
'bold' button:
code:
on(rollOver){
startSel = Selection.getBeginIndex();
endSel = Selection.getEndIndex();
oudeSelectie = Selection.getFocus();
if (endSel - startSel > 0){
selected = "true";
} else {
selected = "false";
}
}
on (release) {
if (selected eq "true"){
Selection.setFocus(oudeSelectie);
Selection.setSelection(startSel,endSel);
begin = tfield.slice(0,startSel);
z= tfield.slice(startSel,endSel);
end = tfield.slice(endSel,1000000);
output= begin add "<B>" add z add "</B>" add end;
tfield = output;
}
Selection.setFocus("textfield.text");
Selection.setSelection(100000,100000000);
}
When HTML formatting is set off to in the textfield it seems to work fine but as I turn it on all text is gone after selecting and pressing the button.
If I make trace 'output' I see a long string of HTML tags plus the two tags for bold but the bold tags(<b></b>) are at the wrong place.
Is there any way to go this way with HTML formatted text?
I would be most greatfull :)
(and happy)
Thanks,
Vincent
