http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-25T11:55:04 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/events/TextEvent.html#76473 function showDef(evt:Event):void{<br /><br />should be<br /><br />function showDef(evt:TextEvent):void{ Garsonix 0 0 2007-11-11T04:32:20 http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/events/TextEvent.html#70004 When I try to retreive data from the TextEvent.text parameter (the last one mentioned below) I get the following COMPILER error:<br /><br />"1119: Access of possibly undefined property text through a reference with static type flash.events:Event."<br /><br />Is this a bug??? All the other parameters come through fine, it's just the "text" parameter that seems not to work.<br /><br />Here is what Adobe says about the TextEvent constructor:<br /><br />-------------------------------------------------<br /><br />TextEvent () Constructor<br />public function TextEvent(type:String, bubbles:Boolean = false, cancelable:Boolean = false, text:String = "") <br /><br />Language version: ActionScript 3.0 <br />Player version: Flash Player 9 <br /><br />Creates an Event object that contains information about text events. Event objects are passed as parameters to event listeners. <br /><br />Parameters <br /><br />type:<br />String -- The type of the event. Event listeners can access this information through the inherited type property. Possible values are: TextEvent.LINK and TextEvent.TEXT_INPUT. <br /><br />bubbles:<br />Boolean (default = false) -- Determines whether the Event object participates in the bubbling phase of the event flow. Event listeners can access this information through the inherited bubbles property. <br /><br />cancelable:<br />Boolean (default = false) -- Determines whether the Event object can be canceled. Event listeners can access this information through the inherited cancelable property. <br /><br />text:<br />String (default = "") -- One or more characters of text entered by the user. Event listeners can access this information through the text property. <br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Here's how I'm testing this:<br /><br />1) create a new CS3 (AS3) FLA file.<br /><br />2) drop the "TextArea" component into the library (it will also copy in the UIScrollbar)<br /><br />3) copy and paste the following code into the first frame:<br /><br />////////////////// BEGIN CODE ///////////////////////////////////<br /><br />import fl.controls.TextArea; <br /><br />var wordA = "Word A";<br />var DefA = "Word A definition.";<br />var myText:String = "<u><a href='event:"+wordA+"|:|"+DefA+"'>Send TextEvent data to output screen</a></u>"; <br />var myTextArea:TextArea = new TextArea(); <br />myTextArea.htmlText = myText; <br />myTextArea.setSize(500, 50); <br />myTextArea.move(10, 10); <br />addChild(myTextArea);<br /><br />var myTextAreaOutput:TextArea = new TextArea();<br />myTextAreaOutput.setSize(500, 150); <br />myTextAreaOutput.move(10, 100); <br />addChild(myTextAreaOutput);<br /><br />myTextArea.addEventListener(TextEvent.LINK, showDef);<br /><br />function showDef(evt:Event):void{<br />myTextAreaOutput.htmlText = evt.toString(); //Works!<br />//myTextAreaOutput.htmlText = evt.bubbles.toString(); //Works!<br />//myTextAreaOutput.htmlText = evt.type; //Works!<br />//myTextAreaOutput.htmlText = evt.eventPhase.toString(); //Works!<br />//myTextAreaOutput.htmlText = evt.cancelable.toString(); //Works!<br /><br />//myTextAreaOutput.htmlText = evt.text.toString(); // Does NOT work<br />//myTextAreaOutput.htmlText = evt.text; // Does NOT work<br />}<br />//////////////////////////////// END CODE ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////<br /><br />I could probably do a work-around approach and extract the data I need from evt.toString(), but I'd really like to avoid doing that.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Mark marke 0 0 2007-07-12T17:47:49