How to change display width of TAB character in a TextArea?

Question

Is it possible to change the width of an insert TAB character in a Flex TextArea?
I'm capturing FocusEvent.KEY_FOCUS_CHANGE events and manually inserting a "\t" into a text area styled with an embedded monospace font. By default, the TABs are being displayed two and a half monospace characters wide. I need them to display five monospace characters wide.
Any ideas on how to do this?

Answer 1

Try doing something like this:
class MyJTextArea extends JTextArea {
    public boolean keyDown(Event evt,int key) {
        if(key == 13 || key == 10) { // or whatever ascii codes enter may have
            // move carret to next line
        } else {
            super.keyDown(evt, key);
}which means you have got to catch the enter-key before the actutal JTextArea does this.
p.s. look at my post, maybe you can help me, too.
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=5&thread=465803&tstart=0&trange=100