How to disable copy/past (selectable='disable') fromTextArea

[Dronius]

How to disable copy/past and text selection ability from TextArea?

<mx:Text has a nice selectable='false' propertie, but TextAre hasn't. Very, very strange.

[ntsiii]

Would enabled="false" work for you?

Why not use mx:Text?

Tracy

[Dronius]

Thanx Tracy, but...

yeah, enabled="false" - blocks ALL user input: insert text capability,
copy/past capability etc AND... ScrollBars, ohhh Lord!!!!

I need "textComponet" with scrollBars, with borders, with multiline, with
wordWrap, with html support and WITHOUT insert/copy/past capability.

Text does not support scrollBars - it's important for me.

[bdeen]

That's easy

<mx:TextArea id='myTextArea' initialize='myTextArea.label.selectable=false'/>

-Bruce

[Dronius]

Wow! Great! It works!

but i don't understand how :) there is no 'label' propertie in TextArea
component in official docs.
where did you find it?? may be in some secret documents?? :) i guess some
people got the MagicSecretFULLtFlexDocumentation :) :) :)

[bdeen]

I wish i could say I was all knowing, but all I did was go to your install
directory for Flex 1.5, go to resources open up FlexforFlash.zip and go into
the Flex classes and work your way down to where the TextARea should be.
Some things aren't there due to the fact that they are just a different
configuration of what they extend, so sometimes you have to work your way up
the inheritance tree. -Bruce