MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-FLASH JAVASCRIPT DICTIONARY, Manual

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Document object 95
Example
The following example gets the bounding rectangle for the current selection and then displays its
properties:
var newRect = fl.getDocumentDOM().getSelectionRect();
var outputStr = "left: " + newRect.left + " top: " + newRect.top + " right: " +
newRect.right + " bottom: " + newRect.bottom;
alert(outputStr);
document.getTextString()
Availability
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
document.getTextString( [ startIndex [, endIndex ]] )
Parameters
startIndex
An integer that is an index of first character to get. This parameter is optional.
endIndex
An integer that is an index of last character to get. This parameter is optional.
Returns
A string that contains the selected text.
Description
Method; gets the currently selected text. If the optional parameters are not passed, the current text
selection is used. If text is not currently opened for editing, the whole text string is returned. If
only
startIndex
is passed, the string starting at that index and ending at the end of the field is
returned. If
startIndex
and
endIndex
are passed, the string starting from
startIndex
up to,
but not including,
endIndex
is returned. See
document.setTextString()
.
If there are several text fields selected, the concatenation of all the strings is returned.
Example
The following example gets the string in the selected text fields:
fl.getDocumentDOM().getTextString();
The following example gets the string at character index 5 in the selected text fields:
fl.getDocumentDOM().getTextString(5);
The following example gets the string from character index 2 up to, but not including, character
index 10:
fl.getDocumentDOM().getTextString(2, 10);