Question

I’m having a very odd issue where I am trying to use a text area to display some text on a mobile AIR app. It works fine whenever I am using the phone emulator on my desktop to debug, however whenever I put the app on my phone, the text displays, then disappears. I’ve also noticed that if I lock the screen and unlock, the text will display just fine when I come back.

Here’s the code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:View xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" 
    xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" title="Program Overview">
<fx:Declarations>
    <!-- Place non-visual elements (e.g., services, value objects) here -->
</fx:Declarations>

<fx:Script>
    <![CDATA[
        [Bindable]
        private var text:String = "Hey how are ya";
    ]]>
</fx:Script>

<s:TextArea text="{text}" editable="false" />

</s:View>

One other interesting thing to note is that it only happens on certain Views, and only on Views in the first ViewNavigator tab. This leads me to believe that there isn’t really anything wrong with my use of the TextArea, but something else happening at a higher level in the application. Any ideas on what I should look for?

Answer 1

I ended up replacing all of my TextArea’s with StyleableTextFields as @Al_Birdy suggested and that took care of the issue. Because you can only use them in AS it made layout and styling a little bit more difficult but it was definitely worth the fix.