Question

TextField objects have a built in context menu containing items which target cut, copy, paste, delete and select all events.

i would like to map keyboard keys and modifiers to these events to obtain their free functionality.

is that possible?

Answer 1

from the documentation (InteractiveObject Class):

TextField objects do not dispatch
clear, copy, cut, paste, or selectAll
events. TextField objects always
include Cut, Copy, Paste, Clear, and
Select All commands in the context
menu. You cannot remove these commands
from the context menu for TextField
objects. For TextField objects,
selecting these commands (or their
keyboard equivalents) does not
generate clear, copy, cut, paste, or
selectAll events. However, other
classes that extend the
InteractiveObject class, including
components built using the Flash Text
Engine (FTE), can dispatch these
events.

in AIR, it’s mind-numbingly simple to accomplish this, as they are built-in public methods of the NativeApplication class.

NativeApplication.nativeApplication.cut();        //Cut
NativeApplication.nativeApplication.copy();       //Copy
NativeApplication.nativeApplication.paste();      //Paste
NativeApplication.nativeApplication.clear();      //Delete
NativeApplication.nativeApplication.selectAll();  //Select All