Using Checkbox to enable/disable input text.

if you think that's better, you should check if a user can tab into your textfield.

inputtext.mouseEnabled=false;

seems better solution. Thanks Ned.

Since we posted within seconds of each other, you may have missed my alternative... If kGlad returns, then we'll hopefully see if his solution (changing it to a dynamic field) is the only safe solution for some reason.

Kglad is right. You can still enter.

So is it possiple to prevent this?

No need to reread, just a need to retest... and you're right--learning new stuff every day! I always assumed that no cursor meant no entry possible, so I never actually tried typing anything. Luckily, it's nothing I have to alert any clients about and change.

In that case, the following will work instead...

function clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {
inputtext.mouseEnabled = !event.target.selected;
}

If there's a problem with this approach, I'll be happy to learn that too.

again, assigning an input textfield's selectable property to false will NOT prevent text from being entered. it just prevents a user from selecting the text (that they may have entered).

re-read my above message.

You're welcome.

Unless I've missed something somewhere (which isn't impossible), TextFields do not have an 'enabled' property. They have a 'selectable' property that you can set as true or false. Setting the selectable property false for an input text field effectively disables it.

If you can't select it, you can't enter anything into it. You can probably have actionscript do it, but then you can have that done for dynamic fields as well.

So your code should be:

inputtext.selectable = true;

function clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {
inputtext.selectable = event.target.selected;
}

selectable won't work. you can still enter text in a textfield whose text you cannot select.