No i-beam cursor with Flash Text Box in Director

Question

I am trying to use a Flash Textbox in Director to accept typed user input. While this works okay, the ibeam cursor disappears, leaving the user no clue as to where he is within the Textbox. This happens randomly and unpredictably. Is there a way to solve this?
Thanks.

Answer 1

In Flash, create a dynamic textfield in Flash. Give it an
instance name. Embed the font that you want to use. Write a
function that will set the text of this new textfield to the value
of the argument of that function. Something like this:
function newText(someString) {
textField.text = someString;
In Director, import the Flash .swf, write a behavior for the
action that you want to trigger this new text. Something like this:
on mouseUp me
sprite(X).newText("some new string of text to display")
end
Where X is the sprite number for the Flash file.