I Beam HELP NEEDED!

Question

Hello,
I'm in desparate need of some help. I have a flash input text
field that is embedded in Director as a flash sprite. I'm using the
most recent build of Director which apparently fixes the "Know I
Beam" issue and it does seem to work...
BUT,
My projector does a little bit more. At the very beginning I
run the following script.
on prepareMovie me
screenWidth = baScreenInfo("width")
screenHeight = baScreenInfo("height")
stageHeight = screenHeight
stageWidth = screenHeight * 1.25
stageCentreWidth = (screenWidth - stageWidth) / 2
_movie.stage.rect = rect(stageCentreWidth, 0, screenWidth -
stageCentreWidth, stageHeight)
end
All this code does is sets up the screen to scale to
fullscreen at a 3:4 aspect ratio. Once this is accomplished, there
is a behavior that scales the Flash sprites in the frame to the
appropriate size. So what happens?
Well, on my Desktop 1600X1200 screen resolution... I can see
the I Beam in the input text field... but my laptop which is
1280X720 It does not exist... If I set my desktop to 1280X1024, the
can still see the I Beam. The client requires the I Beam and this
is only an issue when the Director stage has been scaled and only
on machines other than the development system? I've even tried
using Verdana as the font but to no avail.
Everything in my projector works perfectly except for the I
Beam disappearing???
Please help? I'm at a loss on this one!

Answer 1

1) create an I-beam graphic using an image, vectorShape or
anything that can have it's registration point changed.
2) edit the member in Director's paint or vectorshape (or
other) window or use code to change the registration point of the
member to the bottom of the member (instead of the center as in
bitmap images and vectorshapes, for example).
3) You may consider creating a gif or filmloop of the I-beam
to get the animated blinking effect as well as setting it's sprite
ink to reverse.
4) Create a behviour script member and paste the code below
into it and then attach the behavior to your I-beam sprite.
property spriteNum, sp, mem
property pOffPos
on beginSprite me
sp = sprite(spriteNum)
mem = sp.member
pOffPos = point(the stage.rect.width + 10, the
stage.rect.height + 10)
sp.loc = pOffPos
end
on prepareFrame me
spNum = the keyBoardFocusSprite
if spNum > 0 then
txtSp = sprite(spNum)
sp.locZ = sprite(spNum).locZ
txtMem = txtSp.member
sel = txtMem.selection
if sel[1] = sel[2] then
selPoint = txtMem.charPosToLoc(sel[1] + 1) - point(0,
txtMem.scrollTop)
if selPoint.locV < 0 or selPoint.locV > txtSp.height
then
sp.loc = pOffPos
exit
end if
if selPoint.locH > txtSp.width then selPoint.locH =
txtSp.width
ibeamPoint = txtSp.mapMemberToStage(selPoint)
sp.height = getDefaultFixedLineSpace(txtMem, max(1,sel[1]))
sp.loc = ibeamPoint
else
sp.loc = pOffPos
end if
else
sp.loc = pOffPos
end if
end
on getDefaultFixedLineSpace (theMem, theChar)
theRef = theMem.char[theChar].ref
theField = new(#field)
theField.text = theRef.text & RETURN
theField.font = theRef.font
theField.fontSize = theRef.fontSize
theLineHeight = theField.lineHeight - 1
theField.erase()
return theLineHeight
end
** Note: the above code will function reasonably well, but
there are some things that haven't been taken into consideration:
1) if a line gets cut off at the top or bottom then the
I-beam height won't adjust to accommodate that.
2) setting no wrap on the text member has it's own inherent
issues, but the I-beam will work with it just not absolutely
perfect.
3) you may need to add some modifiers or adjustments to the
positioning of the I-beam to fine tune it if you can't or don't set
the member's registration point to the bottom (left, center or
right horizontal registration is you own choice).