[FLEX-23080] Erroneous selection, disappearing hand cursor when mouse button released over hyperlink when scrolling mx:Text using scrollbar thumb

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK 4.0 (Release)
• Component/s: mx: Text
• Environment: Affected OS(s): Windows; Affected OS(s): Windows XP; Language Found: English
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 11/Feb/10 07:30
• Updated: 11/Feb/10 07:40

Description

was able to duplicate the bug using the code example from the end of the Text documentation page in Flex 3.5 reference.

(http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/mx/controls/Text.html)

Just replace their htmlText in that example with a huge block of htmlText containing anchors tags. Then make the browser window small. Then click some arbitrary area of the htmlText with the mouse (That step is important.) Then scroll using the thumb. With the mouse still pressed (not having ended the scroll yet), move the mouse over one of the hyperlinks you created and release the mouse. The entire block of htmlText is selected and highlighted and the mouse pointer will not revert to a hand. (Well it will after you click somewhere else.)

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Here is someone from nearly three years ago who had the exact same problem, so obviously this issue has been around for a long time:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/161523#161523

(Read the second half of the above)

Anyone who has seen it would not doubt its unacceptable so its something of a mystery how it could have gone unnoticed or unfixed by Adobe for this long.

(And it is in Flex 2, 3, and 4 - I have verfied its occurence in all of these).