I can see '\' characters in myTextArea.text. Should I try replacing them
with '\n' or that won't help?
As I said, that TA doesn't display new lines. Any TA properties can help?
TIA,
Oleg
On Feb 8, 2013 1:15 PM, "Oleg Konovalov" <oleg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I am working on old Flex3 (Cairngorm2) app.
>
> One of TextArea's there is completely ignoring new lines (Carriage
> Return/Line Feed)
>
> and even skips some spaces (others work fine).
>
>
> Code is pretty simple (well, little simplified here):
>
> <fx:TextArea text="myText" selectable=true change=updateText(event)"/>
>
> ...
>
>
> private function updateText(evt:Event):void {
>
> var event:UpdateEvent = new UpdateEvent(UpdateEvent.UPDATE_EVENT);
>
> event.myText=myText.text;
>
> trace("myText"+event.myText) //added by me
>
> event.dispatch();
>
> }
>
>
>
> I have read about weird behaviors of TextArea (skipping or even doubling
> some characters) on the net,
>
> but so far could not find anything applicable in that case.
>
>
> For example, something like myText.text.replace("\n", "\r") doesn't
> change anything.
>
> I guess, there is no "\n" there.
>
>
> If I trace, it returns line without newlines (like:
> 'startskip1lineskip2linesend;').
>
> But if I copy-paste that line to say another TextArea on the screen (or
> non flex Chat app, I would get multiline text:
>
> 'start
>
>
> skip1line
>
>
>
> skip2lines
>
> end;
>
>
> And for various reasons I can't debug that app.
>
>
> Any idea what might be wrong and how to fix it?
>
>
> Please help!
>
>
> TIA,
>
> Oleg.
>
> P.S.: App connects to SPs in the Database via Web Service. No BlazeDS.
>
>
>
