Height of selectable text

There are several different ways to measure the height of the text. If you are looking at the container's height property, that is calculated by the Flash Player based on the DisplayObjects that are in the container. A selectable TextFlow's container has a transparent background that is used so that the container will get mouse clicks for the entire area, not just over the text. This has does, as you point out, change the value of the height property of the container. If you override the ContainerController class with your own version that overrides the attachTranparentBackground() function and returns false, and then use your own ContainerController class when you do the addController call when setting up the TextFlow. But, you will then only get mouse clicks that are directly on the text, and it will ignore clicks that are below the text, in the margin, or between the lines.

So, you could do something like this:

public class NoBackgroundController extends ContainerController

{

     protected function get attachTransparentBackground():Boolean  { return true; }

}

and then when you setup the flow you would do this:

textFlow.flowComposer.addController(new NoBackgroundController(spriteContainer, width, height));

What is going wrong in the MovieClip when you use it?

Thanks,

- robin