What's the AS 3.0 for the Selection class?

[matbury]

Hi,

In AS 2.0, you've got the Selection class with setSelection(), getSelection(), etc.

I think it's been depricated in AS 3.0.

What's the equivalent in AS 3.0? Any links to references or just a class name would be sufficient.

Thanks in advance!

[Mazoonist]

The TextField class now has a setSelection() method.

[matbury]

Thanks for the suggestion. I looked it up:

public function setSelection(beginIndex:int, endIndex:int):void

But it's not what I'm looking for. The Selection class was for entire objects, not just the text selected within a TextField.

The Accessibility functions automatically set the focus to the object with the next tab index every time you hit the tab key, and you can see the focus rectangle when its show property is set to true.

I'd like to be able to set the focus to a new object automatically when the user has finished on it. You can do this with AS 2.0, I find it hard to believe you don't have access to this is AS 3.0.

I'm gonna check out the Accessibilty functions.

Any more help would be greatly appreciated.

[matbury]

You can monitor the focus of objects easily and acurately with the FocusEvent class, but it's a listener - you can't set focus with it.

It must be something to do with the DisplayObject class.

[matbury]

Couldn't find it in the DisplayObject or DisplayObjectContainer classes.

[Sleeve]

It's now part of the Stage class. Try this.stage.focus = MyClip; Or even myClip.stage.focus = myClip;

[matbury]

Ok, I've found something:

The fl.managers.FocusManager class has a setFocus() method:

public function setFocus(component:InteractiveObject):void

And there's a really wacky demo embedded in the Document:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/

Check out the example code.

[matbury]

The eventual answer I've come up with is so complicated, I've sent it to Room 101:

http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=152151&page=3

Please have a look at it and tell if there's an easier way!!!