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Document object
Last updated 5/2/2011
document.setSelectionBounds()
Availability
Flash MX 2004; bContactSensitiveSelection parameter added in Flash 8.
Usage
document.setSelectionBounds(boundingRectangle [, bContactSensitiveSelection])
Parameters
boundingRectangle A rectangle that specifies the new location and size of the selection. For information on the
format of boundingRectangle, see document.addNewRectangle() .
bContactSensitiveSelection A Boolean value that specifies whether the Contact Sensitive selection mode is
enabled ( true ) or disabled ( false ) during object selection. The default value is false .
Returns
Nothing.
Description
Method; moves and resizes the selection in a single operation.
If you pass a value for bContactSensitiveSelection, it is valid only for this method and doesn’t affect the Contact
Sensitive selection mode for the document (see
fl.contactSensitiveSelection ).
Example
The following example moves the current selection to 10, 20 and resizes it to 100, 200:
var l = 10;
var t = 20;
fl.getDocumentDOM().setSelectionBounds({left:l, top:t, right:(100+l), bottom:(200+t)});
See also
document.selection , document.setSelectionRect()
document.setSelectionRect()
Availability
Flash MX 2004; bContactSensitiveSelection parameter added in Flash 8.
Usage
document.setSelectionRect(rect [, bReplaceCurrentSelection [, bContactSensitiveSelection]])
Parameters
rect A rectangle object to set as selected. For information on the format of rect, see document.addNewRectangle() .
bReplaceCurrentSelection A Boolean value that specifies whether the method replaces the current selection
( true ) or adds to the current selection ( false ). The default value is true .