MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-EXTENDING FLASH Manual page 444

Description
Method; retrieves the attribute specified by the parameter for the text identified by
attrName
the optional and parameters. If the attribute is not consistent for the
startIndex endIndex
specified range, Flash returns . If you omit the optional parameters
undefined startIndex
and , the method uses the entire text range. If you specify only , the
endIndex startIndex
range used is a single character at that position. If you specify both and
startIndex
, the range starts from and goes up to, but does not include, .
endIndex startIndex endIndex
Example
The following example gets the font size of the currently selected text field and shows it:
var TheTextSize = fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].getTextAttr("size");
fl.trace(TheTextSize);
The following example gets the text fill color of the selected text field:
var TheFill = fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].getTextAttr("fillColor");
fl.trace(TheFill);
The following example gets the size of the third character:
var Char2 = fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].getTextAttr("size", 2);
fl.trace(Char2);
The following example gets the color of the selected text field from the third through the
eighth character:
fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].getTextAttr("fillColor", 2, 8);
text.getTextString()
Availability
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
text.getTextString([startIndex [, endIndex] ])
Parameters
An integer that specifies the index (zero-based) of the first character. This
startIndex
parameter is optional.
An integer that specifies the end of the range of text, which starts from
endIndex
and goes up to, but does not include, . This parameter is optional.
startIndex endIndex
Returns
A string of the text in the specified range.
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