Carriage return in TextArea Flash component in Director 11

Question

Hello.
I have a very big problem now
Neither embedded Flash movies with textareas or standard flashcomponent TextArea from Director tool pallete do not react on keyboard button "Enter" pressings. There is no carriage return after ENTER button is pressed. The same with End and Home buttons!!
Please help with any advise.
Is that a common bug?
See attached test.dir file. Try to type something in both textareas and then press ENTER button on keyboard. You should realize then what I'm crying about(((
Alexey

Answer 1

I too struggled with this issue. If you're looking for a solution still I have written one. Used the attached script in your Flash document, I spent a few days going back and forth between Director and Flash to figure this one out. Basically what I do is attach a key listener to the movieclip containing the textfield object that on keyDown gets the currently focused textField (this way it will work with multiple textField objects). After that it determines if the enter key is hit and if it is inserts a "/n" break at the selection starting point. The only issue is if you select a whole word in the textField and hit enter a break will be placed at the beginning of the highlighted word and that word will not be deleted. Hopefully this helps.
-b
// BY / contempt.productions inc.  10.30.09
// Director 11.5 fix for bug where dynamic textfields don't register ENTER or RETURN key in Flash sprites
// Solution involves inserting a \n carriage return wherever cursor insertion point starts.
// In Flash this adds 2 carriage returns for every hit of the enter/return key
// In Director 11.5 it adds 1 carriage return
// Change "body_txt" to represent the dynamic textField object this script is referencing
myListener = new Object();
myListener.onKeyDown = function() {
_global.textFocus = Selection.getFocus();
// get a string of the path to the currently focused textField object
_global.selStart = Selection.getBeginIndex();
// get the insertion point, this is the start of any selection
var multiText = body_txt.text;
// get the text from the current textField object
var theKey = Key.getCode();
// get the current keyCode (13 is the keyCode for "enter/return" key)
if (eval(textFocus) == eval(body_txt)) {
// determine if focused textField and current textField are the same
if (theKey == 13) {
// enter key is pressed
var firstPart = multiText.slice(0, selStart);
// get the current textField's text from the beginning to the insertion point
var secondPart = multiText.slice(selStart, multiText.length);
// get the textField's text from the insertion point to the string's end
body_txt.text = firstPart+"\n"+secondPart;
// concatenate the first and second part of the textField's text with a carriage return
Selection.setSelection(selStart+1,selStart+1);
// place the text insertion point properly
myListener.onKeyUp = function() {
var theKey = Key.getCode();
Key.addListener(myListener);