Is this textfield behaviour possible with a Feathers control?

crooksy88

I need a text field which can:

Accept a TextFormat
Display html formatted text (basic <b> and the like)
Is scrollable.
The text can be selected and copied but no soft keyboard should appear.

I've tried ScrollText but the text doesn't appear to be selectable.
TextInput doesn't seem to display htmlText and presents the softkeyboard when selected.

Do you think this is possible?

Thanks,

joshtynjala

TextArea supports scrolling and you can set the isEditable property to false. I think that will prevent the soft keyboard from displaying (but I'm not 100% certain), while allowing you to select the text. It does not have an htmlText property, but you might be able to create a subclass that adds that feature.

crooksy88

Thanks Josh. It looks like isEditable = false prevents text selection on mobile devices.
It's looking like e.preventDefaults() might be the way to stop the keyboard appearing but this requires a flash.event.

I'll keep delving.

joshtynjala

Ah yes, I suppose it doesn't bother putting the TextField in Starling's native overlay when it can't be edited. I probably should have added it anyway, when it is still supposed to be selectable.

It's looking like e.preventDefaults() might be the way to stop the keyboard appearing but this requires a flash.event.

The event to listen for would be SoftKeyboardEvent.SOFT_KEYBOARD_ACTIVATING, which can be cancelled. You should be able to listen on the native stage because it bubbles.