Adobe AIR 1.0 TextArea Component Bug
Dave from twentysix passed this interesting bit of information to me upon reading my post Adobe AIR 1.0 hates the ComboBox Component. It seems that you will run upon a strange bug in the TextArea component when selecting text. For example… Create a new FLA and set the Publish Settings for AIR 1.0. Drag a TextArea component out to the stage. Now, test your movie. Write some text in the TextArea, highlight a portion of it and click below in the white space. If you do this you will occasionally see the text above reorder itself. Note, this is not clicking and dragging – just clicking. You can view the results below:
Now the interesting part… Take the same FLA, change the Publish Settings to Flash 9 and retest. The bug is gone. It seems that there might be some fishiness when it comes to using components from Flash CS3 in your AIR applications. If anyone else has additional information let me know.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
You might want to check to see if this bug fall across all both AIR runtimes or if it is specific to just one OS
May 13th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Phil – it happened to Dave on Windows XP and to me on Mac OS X Leopard so it appears to be a cross-OS issue. Thanks for the thought though! You never know on stuff like this.
May 14th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Thanks for this. I’ve already run into the comboBox problem, and would have run in to this one as well. I guess maybe I need to re-think the conversion of this app to AIR, it seems the AIR environment isn’t quite ready yet.
Lx
January 14th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Anyone found a solution to this yet since our request here last yr??
I managed to show Adobe that they still haven’t fixed it even in CS4…almost got escorted from the Adobe stand