Why does highlighting the text in my textfield cause the format to change?

Perhaps there is a mouseover event connected to the text box, but if there is I am not aware of it. There certainly isn't anything in my code that explicitly sets up a mouseover event associated with the text box. As a matter of fact I wouldn't even know how to do that.

It seems to me that the flash player is resetting the format (default maybe?) as part of the highlighting/copy&paste process.

I agree! This is very wierd. I am attching 3 screenshots:

Highlighting Bug 1.jpg - Normal text appearance in the flash player.

Highlighting Bug 2.jpg - Here I highlight some text as if I were going to copy & paste.

Highlighting Bug 3.jpg - This is what the text looks like after highlighting and I click one of the hot spot buttons outlined in yellow boxes. The text box will continue to use this font until I restart the movie to reset the text formating.

As you can see from the screen shots, this is a very simple movie. I am displaying a screenshot of one page of a setup wizard. In the dynamic text field above the screenshot I display text depending on which button the user clicks. I setup the text box in the constructor for the SetupWizard1_1 class I have defined. I do not change the format at all after the constructor here is the relevant code:

public class SetupWizardv1_1 extends Sprite

 {

  var textFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();

  var imageLoader:Loader = new Loader();

  var description_txt:TextField = new TextField();

  var MoreReqHDImport_txt:TextField = new TextField();

  var Title_txt:TextField = new TextField();

  public function SetupWizardv1_1()

  {

   setupTextBoxes();

   Frame1(); // Dashboard

  }

public function setupTextBoxes():void

  {

   // Title Text Box

   Title_txt = createTextBox(45, 15, 50, 670, false, false);

   textFormat = TextFormattingII(32); // Set text format for Title_txt.

   Title_txt.defaultTextFormat = textFormat; // associate TextFormat with TextField

   addChild(Title_txt);

   // Description Text Box

   description_txt = createTextBox(65, 75, 155, 670, false, false);

   textFormat = TextFormatting(15); // Set text format for description_txt textfield.

   description_txt.defaultTextFormat = textFormat; // associate TextFormat with TextField

   description_txt.multiline = true;

   addChild(description_txt);

  }

private function createTextBox(boxx:Number, boxy:Number, boxh:Number, boxw:Number, boxborder:Boolean, boxbackground:Boolean):TextField

  {

   var box:TextField = new TextField();

   box.x = boxx;

   box.y = boxy;

   box.height = boxh;

   box.width = boxw;

   box.border = boxborder;

   box.background = boxbackground;

   box.wordWrap = true;

   return box;

  }

private function TextFormatting(txtSize:Number):TextFormat

  {

   // Set text field formating optons

   var txtFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat(); //text field format object

   txtFormat.font = "Tahoma";

   txtFormat.color = 0x666666; //RGB

   txtFormat.size = txtSize;

   //txtFormat.bold = true;

   return txtFormat;

  }

TimP