AS3: How to apply color from gradient spectrum to selected textfield text

Question

I have defined a gradient color spectrum that I would like to use to change the color of a text selection in an input textfield. This is expected to act just like the colorpicker.

Do you want all the symbols in textfield to be colored uniformly, or do you want to apply gradient to the text as an image? — Vesper, Dec 11 '12 at 08:02
Did you write any code or you want we to write it for you...? — Teejay, Dec 11 '12 at 08:08

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

See this one Best way to get the color where a mouse was clicked in AS3 for getting the selected color.

When you have it, simply apply yourColor to the text selection with a TextFormat:

var myFormat = new TextFormat();
myFormat.color = yourColor;

yourTextField.setTextFormat(myFormat,
                            yourTextField.selectionBeginIndex,
                            yourTextField.selectionEndIndex);

AS3: How to apply color from gradient spectrum to selected textfield text

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