Selecting and manipulating text

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Selecting text

The flash.text.TextField.selectable property is true by default, and you can programmatically select text using the setSelection() method.

For example, you can set specific text within a text field to be selected when the user clicks the text field:

var myTextField:TextField = new TextField();

myTextField.text = "No matter where you click on this text field the TEXT IN ALL CAPS is selected.";

myTextField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;

addChild(myTextField);

addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, selectText);

function selectText(event:MouseEvent):void

{

    myTextField.setSelection(49, 65);

}

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