I am programming in AS3 on latest AIR.
I have a bunch of DYNAMIC text fields on the screen.
i decide to change one of them to type INPUT, and was hoping that once I did that the blinking caret would appear.
I used stage.focus = myfield to set the focus, and yes when I type, characters appear, but no blinking caret
seems like a huge weakness in AIR that it doesn't expose an API or a methodology for controlling the caret. I dont' see any way to make this work. I can create a field on top of my field that works, but then once the user scrolls the page my block is left dangling. I sure would like not to have to create dummy layer-above text fields, but so far this seems the only way.
Is there some magic trick to controlling the caret?