Get Position of Character at Selected Line Help?

Question

How do you get the position of the first character of the line in which the anchor is on? Something simple but I can't find the API. I'm trying to do this on the spark.components.TextArea with a TextFlow.

Thanks!

viatropos · Answer

public static function getSelectedLineBoundsPosition(editor:RichEditableText):Point

{

var textFlow:TextFlow = editor.textFlow;

if (!textFlow)

return new Point();

var flowComposer:IFlowComposer = textFlow.flowComposer;

var line:TextFlowLine = flowComposer.findLineAtPosition(editor.selectionActivePosition);

var start:Number = line.absoluteStart;

var end:Number = start + line.textLength;

return new Point(start, end);

}

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