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TextLayout framework prevent unselect when pressing menu button

For example we create a TextFlow element with some text in it. We make it editable. How can I prevent the text from deselecting when pressing the bold button.

var text:String = "<b>hallo</b><ol><li>1</li><li>2</li></ol>";  
var textFlow:TextFlow;  
    textFlow = TextConverter.importToFlow(text, TextConverter.TEXT_FIELD_HTML_FORMAT);
var containerController:ContainerController = new ContainerController(this, 400, 400);           

textFlow.flowComposer = new StandardFlowComposer();
textFlow.flowComposer.addController(containerController);
textFlow.format = new TextLayoutFormat();
textFlow.interactionManager = new EditManager();                    
textFlow.flowComposer.updateAllControllers();

How is it possible to prevent the EditManager (extends SelectionManager) from unselecting text when pressing another Button (Sprite) that is added on the container itself or another container.

If you click outside of the selection it will deselect the current selection. How can this behaviour prevented?

Solution

  • The selectionstate doesn't reset only the focus which does the blue color formatting.

    textFlow.focus()

    Does the trick.