@:require metadata not honoured in @:forward.

[0b1kn00b]

Using syntactic delegation on TextField in flash triggers a compiler error even when using (field0,field1...fieldn). I assume it's the TextInteractionMode field, but it may be something further up the class hierarchy.

Accessing this field requires flash version 11 (use -swf-version 11)

[0b1kn00b]

import tink.lang.Cls;

import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.display.InteractiveObject;
import flash.display.DisplayObject;
import flash.display.Sprite;

class Text extends Sprite implements Cls{
  @:forward(
    /*alwaysShowSelection,antiAliasType,autoSize,background,
    backgroundColor,border,borderColor,bottomScrollV,
    caretIndex,condenseWhite,defaultTextFormat,
    displayAsPassword,embedFonts,gridFitType,htmlText,
    length,maxChars,maxScrollH,maxScrollV,mouseWheelEnabled,
    multiline,numLines,restrict,scrollH,scrollV,selectable,
    selectedText,selectionBeginIndex,selectionEndIndex,sharpness,
    styleSheet,textColor,textHeight,textWidth,
    thickness,type,useRichTextClipboard,wordWrap,appendText,
    copyRichText,getCharBoundaries,getCharIndexAtPoint,
    getFirstCharInParagraph,getImageReference,getLineIndexAtPoint,
    getLineIndexOfChar,getLineLength,getLineMetrics,getLineOffset,
    getLineText,getParagraphLength,getRawText,getTextFormat,getTextRuns,
    getXMLText,insertXMLText,pasteRichText,
    replaceSelectedText,replaceText,setSelection,setTextFormat*/
  ) var __text_field__ : TextField;

  public function new(){
    super();
  }
  public var text(get,set):String;

  private function get_text(){
    return this.__text_field__.text;
  }
  private function set_text(text:String):String{
    return this.__text_field__.text = text;
  }
/*
  @:require(flash11) var textInteractionMode(get,set) : TextInteractionMode;

  @:require(flash11) private function get_textInteractionMode():TextInteractionMode{
    return __text_field__.textInteractionMode;
  }
  @:require(flash11) private function set_textInteractionMode(v:TextInteractionMode):TextInteractionMode{
    return __text_field__.textInteractionMode = v;
  }*/
}

[back2dos]

Ah yes. I ran into this once. Will look into it. For the time being I suggest using @:forward(!textInteractionMode) instead of listing all fields ;)

[0b1kn00b]

Didn't know you could use the negation operator here, but even with that field excluded (and requestSoftKeyboard up the chain), the error remains.

[back2dos]

Well now you know you can and I know it's not enough :D

[back2dos]

Ok, the problem comes from an underlying layer. In some sense the whole way in which @:require is handled is rather problematic. I would have liked to just generate the @:require on the forwarded methods, but the compiler will then reject the method bodies.