to select and make bold with HTML text...

[Vincent26381]

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:

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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);

}

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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