chatInput component selection problem

[smart.net]

Hello,
in my chat application, after adding the smiley feature.. i was perfectly able to use smiley from mouse.

now, i tried to add the focus back to the textInput , i faced problem

the below code is of smiley button :
                 _root.smiley._visible = false;  // ( BIG LIST OF SMILEY will be closed ,as user has clicked on a particular smiley)
   _root.chatInput.text += " (:-& "; // ( now adding the smiley code to the textInput component, named chatInput
   _level0.chatInput.setFocus(); // ( now setting the focus on textInput again). Here is the problem

above lines works perfectly, but the whole smiley codes gets selected automatically in chatInput field.. i do not want it to be selected automatically, why its happening.
Please help

[Jorge Solis]

Probably the smiley code is interfering at some point. Try to use Selection.setSelection to modify it

Jorge

[Andresss]

hello smartindore!!! try using the code of Jorge and set the "I" of the text to the last character so that i won't interfer in your text,
greetings!!!
andres