Selection Color of a text box

Question

As one of the project requirements, I have to provide a
functionality in my application to be able to change the selection
color of the text box. Having no provision in Flash, I searched on
the net and found one good example of doing that with
flash.geom.ColorTransform and TextFormat classes. It works fine
with windows. However, it doesn't work on Mac OSX. I am using Flash
8 with AS 2.0 for development.
I am seeking some support from all the brilliant developers
here. Can somebody help me with a solution to this problem?

Answer 1

Create 4 radio buttons, all called the same name, but with export values of cent.grn, cent.amb, cent.red, cent.blk.
Then use this as the custom calculation script for the text field:
var v = this.getField("myRadioButtons").value;    //Replace myRadioButtons with the name of your radio button group
if (v=="cent.grn"){
this.getField("tf.assmnt.stat").fillColor = color.green;    
else if (v=="cent.amb"){
this.getField("tf.assmnt.stat").fillColor = [ "RGB", 1,.5,0 ];
else if (v=="cent.red"){
this.getField("tf.assmnt.stat").fillColor = color.red;
else if (v=="cent.blk"){
this.getField("tf.assmnt.stat").fillColor = color.black;