flash actionscript: Can anyone suggest a reasonable way to determine what the current insertion
point or selection range is in an Input Text field? E.g. if the user clicks in
the middle of the field, so that the blinking cursor is between the 3rd and 4th
character that they typed in, how can I get that location via ActionScript?

Thanks!

David

(And btw, if anyone has beat their head against this wall before, and decided there's no way to do it, I would appreciate hearing that too!)

This is quite tricky but it can be done...
You have to create an invisible movieclip behind the text field so that you
can catch mouse events(_alpha=0)



var mc:MovieClip;
var txt:TextField;

var selStart;
var selEnd;
var cursorPos;

mc.onRelease = function()
{
_root.selStart = Selection.getBeginIndex();
_root.selEnd = Selection.getEndIndex();
_root.cursorPos = Selection.getCaretIndex();
}