http://www.simianlogicstudios.com/2007/10/02/flex-rte-and-the-obscure-gettextfield-function/ indie game developer, web tinkerer, and transplanted Southerner living in Silicon Valley Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:55:46 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.simianlogicstudios.com/2007/10/02/flex-rte-and-the-obscure-gettextfield-function/comment-page-1/#comment-11 SimianLogic » Blog Archive » Flex RTE Part 1: Link Buttons Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:20:31 +0000 http://simianlogic3d.com/blog/2007/10/02/flex-rte-and-the-obscure-gettextfield-function/#comment-11 [...] In this post earlier this week, I set out the project goal of making the Flex Rich Text Editor control a little more user-friendly. Here’s the first bit. I’ve removed the old add link textField completely and replaced it with two new buttons: “Add Link” and “Remove Link.” The popup for the “Add Link” button automatically grants focus to the text field and places the cursor after the “http://”, just to make it a little easier to use. The “Remove Link” button does two things. First, it will remove a link from any highlighted text. Second, if the current text carat is on a link (and you don’t have any text highlighted), the “Remove Link” button will figure out the beginning and end of that link and remove the whole thing. [...] [...] In this post earlier this week, I set out the project goal of making the Flex Rich Text Editor control a little more user-friendly. Here’s the first bit. I’ve removed the old add link textField completely and replaced it with two new buttons: “Add Link” and “Remove Link.” The popup for the “Add Link” button automatically grants focus to the text field and places the cursor after the “http://”, just to make it a little easier to use. The “Remove Link” button does two things. First, it will remove a link from any highlighted text. Second, if the current text carat is on a link (and you don’t have any text highlighted), the “Remove Link” button will figure out the beginning and end of that link and remove the whole thing. [...]

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