User Guide

316 Chapter 3: Objects
text.selectionStart
Availability
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
text.selectionStart
Description
Property; a zero-based integer that specifies the beginning of a text subselection. You can use this
property with
text.selectionEnd to select a range of characters. Characters up to, but not
including,
text.selectionEnd are selected.
• If there is an insertion point or no selection, text.selectionEnd is equal to
text.selectionStart.
• If text.selectionStart is set to a value greater than text.selectionEnd,
text.selectionEnd is set to text.selectionStart, and no text is selected.
Example
The following example sets the start of the text subselection to the sixth character:
fl.getDocumentDOM().getTimeline().layers[0].frames[0].elements[0].selectionSta
rt = 5;
The following example selects the characters “Barbara” from a text field that contains the text “My
name is Barbara” and formats them as bold and green:
fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].selectionStart = 11;
fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].selectionEnd = 18;
var s = fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].selectionStart;
var e = fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].selectionEnd;
fl.getDocumentDOM().setElementTextAttr('bold', true, s, e);
fl.getDocumentDOM().setElementTextAttr("fillColor", "#00ff00", s, e);
text.setTextAttr()
Availability
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
text.setTextAttr(attrName, attrValue [, startIndex [, endIndex]])
Parameters
attrName
A string that specifies the name of the TextAttrs object property to change.
attrValue The value for the TextAttrs object property.
Note: For a list of possible values for attrName and attrValue, see “Property summary for the
TextAttrs object” on page 299.
startIndex
An integer that is the index (zero-based) of the first character in the array. This
parameter is optional.