Question

I wish to provide simple highlighting feature where a user selects some range of text in a TextField and selects a color and that text’s background is highlighted with that color like a marker, its a standard feature on most text editors and word processors. How to achieve this in AS3 (not flex) esp without using html/css in TextField.

Answer 1

Solution here:
http://tom-lee.blogspot.in/2007/01/textfield-highlighter-class-for-flex.html

Also while hunting for solutions I came accross a generally useful class from Greensock called TextMetrics.