How to select text property in mx:DateField

Question

I want to manually select the text inside the "textInput" box of Datefield. How can i do that? Since only TextInput components have "selectAll()" method which selects the whole string inside the insertion box.

I've looked everywhere and never found.

I've tried this

var text_input:mx.controls.TextInput = date_field.mx_internal::getTextInput();                  
text_input.setSelection(0, text_input.length);
text_input.setFocus();

but it did not work, "text_input.text" was empty. So I guess its another component who displays the string in the box of the Datefield. I fill the Datefield with the selectedDate property.

dateField.selectedDate = date;

-------------Edit

It worked. All I had to do was find the right way to put that code. When you use selectedDate before the creationComplete and triggers of the DateField it don't actually sets the text_input. You have to wait it to fully complete it's trigger events in order to use the text_input. So, I used value_commit trigger to select the text after I setted the selectedDate. Here it is:

protected function cmpDateFault_valueCommitHandler(event:FlexEvent):void
        {
            if(isSelect){

                var text_input:mx.controls.TextInput = cmpDateFault_valueCommitHandler.mx_internal::getTextInput();                  
                text_input.setSelection(0, text_input.length);
                text_input.setFocus();

                isSelect = false;
            }
        }

the "isSelect" is a trick I used to make the value_commit only work in the first time, which was what I wanted. I setted the isSelected before the fully creation and triggers were completed on other mxml.

Answer 1

You can do that using mx.core.mx_internal like this :

var text_input:mx.controls.TextInput = date_field.mx_internal::getTextInput();                  
    text_input.setSelection(0, text_input.length);
    text_input.setFocus();

Hope that can help.