Column absoluteStart and textLength

Hi, absoluteStart is text-offset of start of line - from beginning of the TextFlow

I have a method to do what you want, but not sure if it's the best way. We can discuss.

As below code shows, you can loop through the textFlowLines inside of the textFlow, then get the columnIndex property, if it's 1, means it's in the second column, then you can get the text info from the textLine.

var text:String = null;

var textFlowLine:TextFlowLine = null;

for(var i:int = 0; i < textFlow.flowComposer.numLines; i ++)

{

     textFlowLine = textFlow.flowComposer.getLineAt(i);

     if ( textFlowLine.columnIndex == 1 )

          break;

}

text = textFlowLine.getTextLine().textBlock.content.text;

text is the first text line of column two.

text length of the first column is textFlowLine.absoluteStart - 1