Comments on: Changing Selection Color on Dynamic TextFields

By: Yu-Chung Chen

Yu-Chung Chen — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:55:54 +0000

Hi!

Thanks for this useful class.

I noticed a limitation: when the sprite containing the textfield is cacheAsBitmap, the coloring doesn’t work.

Any chance it could be done for cached DisplayObjects?

By: Flo

Flo — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:41:52 +0000

Hi everyone,
I suggest only one little modification (sorry for my bad english), in order to be able to easly reset the color transform of a textfield. (For exemple when a same textField is use on both black and white background)

I added a little function in the class:

public static function resetColorTransform( field:TextField ):void
{
var colorTrans:ColorTransform = new ColorTransform();
}
Thank you for all !

By: Evan Gifford

Evan Gifford — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:25:34 +0000

Huge time saver, thank you so much for sharing – works perfectly for my use case.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:14:40 +0000

Amazing class, you’vd saved my day! Thanks!

By: emma

emma — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:57:34 +0000

wonderful class, did exactly what i needed. many thanks!

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:07:03 +0000

For anybody looking to control the selection background color AND the selection text color, this class is not adequate. Use this instead: http://labs.hellokeita.com/2008/03/13/textfield-selection-color/

By: OniX

OniX — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:08:51 +0000

thanks

By: not important

not important — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:25:18 +0000

1. put a transparent text
2. you can get the end and beginning of the selected text, using this info you can draw under the text field boxes of the size and color you want.
3. If you use scrolling text then you need further calculations to position the hilight box correctly

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:17:11 +0000

It is an interesting approach but not good enough. What if you use hmtl and pics ? The whole text color is changed.

By: Blair

Blair — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:36:20 +0000

Yeah definatly something lots of us would like to know how to do… with ease!

Im surprised to have such a hardtime finding out how, when this very effect is used in the Flash Help display!