MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004 - ACTIONSCRIPT Reference Manual page 730

Description
Method; specifies the color to use when highlighting characters that have been selected with the
TextSnapshot.setSelected()
transparency value.
TextSnapshot.setSelected()
Availability
Authoring: Flash MX 2004.
Playback: SWF files published for Flash Player 6 or later, playing in Flash Player 7 or later.
Usage
mySnapshot.setSelected(from, to, select)
Parameters
An integer that indicates the position of the first character of
from
values for are 0 through
from
0 is used.
An integer that is 1+ the index of the last character in
to
for are 0 through
to
not included in the extracted string. If this parameter is omitted,
used. If this value is less than or equal to the value of
A Boolean value that specifies whether the text should be selected (
select
deselected (
false
Returns
Nothing.
Description
Method; specifies a range of characters in a TextSnapshot object to be selected or deselected.
Characters that are selected are drawn with a colored rectangle behind them, matching the
bounding box of the character. The color of the bounding box is defined by
TextSnapshot.setSelectColor()
To select or deselect all characters, pass a value of 0 for
any very large number) for
Because characters are individually marked as selected, you can issue this command multiple
times to select multiple characters; that is, using this command does not deselect other characters
that have been set by this command.
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command. The color is always opaque; you can't specify a
TextSnapshot.getCount()
TextSnapshot.getCount()
).
.
. To specify a single character, pass a value of
to
my_snap
- 1. If
from
to be examined. Valid values
my_snap
. The character indexed by the
TextSnapshot.getCount()
, is used.
from from+1
and
from TextSnapshot.getCount()
to select. Valid
is a negative value,
parameter is
to
) or
true
for .
from+1 to
is
(or