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TextArea auto scroll update

Posted on March 7, 2013 by DeanLogic — No Comments ↓

There was a question on the Flex Forum about how to auto-scroll a TextArea. You can set the VerticalScrollPolicy to auto or you can add a little code to valueCommit to move the vertical scroller. Since I lost where I created the example of adding the code to the valueCommit, I decide to remake the example to show the difference. Both text areas are updated every 10 seconds with a random generated sentence, based off of quotes from Mark Twain. The left TextArea box uses the VerticalScrollPolicy set to “auto” The right TextArea box uses the valueCommit code to move Continue reading TextArea auto scroll update→

Autoscroll Textarea

Posted on December 14, 2011 by DeanLogic — No Comments ↓

One of the ways I like to debug my Flex applications is putting a TextArea item that is visible when needed to display certain items that usually would be display in a trace. The benefit of this little trick is that I can see what is going on without having to go through Flex Builder. Also, I happened to create a web service debugging application and it displayed the error and result text from the web service. When displaying either debug or general result information, it is helpful if the TextArea scrolls up to show the latest information added. I Continue reading Autoscroll Textarea→