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Type Coercion failed: cannot convert StyleableStageText to StyleableTextField.

Oct 25, 2011 5:40 PM

#flex-mobile #flex4.5

Hi,

env:

Flash Builder 4.6

as3-signals-v0.9-BETA.swc

robotlegs-framework-v1.5.2.swc

signals-extension-SignalsCommandMap-6241aab.swc

Type Coercion failed: cannot convert StyleableStageText to StyleableTextField.

//MOBILE REQUIRES SPECIAL TREATMENT TO RENDER HTML, BUT IT WORKS GREAT!

StyleableTextField(clearMessageViewUI.textarea.textDisplay).htmlText = aMessage_str;

<s: TextArea id = "textarea" width="100%" height="100" editable="false" selectable="false" />

Any suggestions/fixes would be appreciated.

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Jason Szeto,

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Oct 25, 2011 5:46 PM

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The AIR runtime has added a feature called StageText, in which text editing is performed by the OS native text controls. This exposes all of the device specific text editing support like autocorrect, text selection and copy/paste.

To support StageText, in Flex 4.6, TextArea and TextInput changed from using a StyleableTextField to a StyleableStageText for their textDisplay skinPart.

You can read more here:

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/StageText

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JonnyWeb.com,

Nov 30, 2011 5:49 PM

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I am having the same problem. Can StageText be dissabled in <s:TextArea .../>? Can I manualy tell a single TextArea to use StyleableTextField instead of StyleableStageText. Don't get me wrong, StyleableStageText is great and I am glad for it but it does prove problematic when upgrading older apps to FLEX 4.6.

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Flex harUI,

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Nov 30, 2011 6:19 PM

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Should just be:

<s:TextArea skinClass=”spark.skins.TextAreaSkin” ...

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JonnyWeb.com,

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Nov 30, 2011 8:33 PM

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Description	Resource	Path	Location	Type
1172: Definition spark.skins:TextAreaSkin could not be found.	ListingDetailsAll.mxml	/Up_North_Properties/src/views	line 316	Flex Problem
1202: Access of undefined property TextAreaSkin in package spark.skins.	ListingDetailsAll.mxml	/Up_North_Properties/src/views	line 316	Flex Problem

Am I missing something???

<s:TextArea text="Hello there dude" skinClass="spark.skins.TextAreaSkin"/>

That was a bust in my Flash Builder 4.6 and Flex 4.6 Windows 7 machine.

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Flex harUI,

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Nov 30, 2011 11:59 PM

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Sorry. Try “spark.skins.mobile.TextAreaSkin”

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JonnyWeb.com,

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Dec 1, 2011 10:26 AM

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YES THAT IS IT!!!

I was able to compile my converted flex 4.5 project with flex 4.6 just fine once I made that change!

Thanks so much! It is a nice trick

To recap. I had a project built using Flex 4.5. When converting it to a Flex 4.6 project there was a problem with the text not flowing as it did, also, screen transitions did not work well at all (text showed stationary during slide transition). I realize now that using a <s:Label../> with some style would have been better but that ship had sailed. I was able to avoid using NativeText / StageText using the folowing trick suggested by "Flex harUI"

<s:TextArea text="Hello there dude" skinClass="spark.skins.TextAreaSkin"/>

"How to not use StyleableStageText in TextArea"
"Don't want to use StyleableStageText"
"How to dissable StyleableStageText"

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