So, i’ve been having this problem for a while. I’m trying to get how many pixels a scroll bar has taken me in either direction. On the live docs, they say the ScrollEvent.SCROLL event has a property called “position” which gives me the pixels of where I went.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/fl/events/ScrollEvent.html
It turns out it only gives me the index of the thumbtool in the scrollbar(not pixels). I just want to know how far down I have been taken (in pixels within the textarea, or in # of lines) when i click the arrows in a scroll bar or drag that thing up and down. Is there a workaround? What i am trying to do is position an image and have a lot of control over it while it’s in/over a text area.
Things I have tried:
htmlText with img tags (broken doesn’t work buggy etc.)
addChilding a bitmap to the textArea to let it control the image automatically (doesn’t work)
getCharBoundaries (doesn’t take into account scrolling at all. The position in pixels remains the same no matter how much you scroll)
It appears that controlling an image in a textarea is pointless and Adobe won’t do anything about it. Someone help me relieve the pain.
I am tired of RTFM/Google/Experiment for a 10 hours a day. Is it like trying to carve a marble sculptor with a toothpick (not possible to do/wrong tool)?
