MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-EXTENDING FLASH Manual page 445

Description
Method; retrieves the specified range of text. If you omit the optional parameters
startIndex
and , the whole text string is returned. If you specify only , the method
endIndex startIndex
returns the string starting at the index location and ending at the end of the field. If you
specify both and , the method returns the string starts from
startIndex endIndex
and goes up to, but does not include, .
startIndex endIndex
Example
The following example gets the character(s) from the fifth character through the end of the
selected text field:
var myText = fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].getTextString(4);
fl.trace(myText);
The following example gets the fourth through the ninth characters starting in the selected
text field:
var myText = fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].getTextString(3, 9);
fl.trace(myText);
text.length
Availability
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
text.length
Description
Read-only property; an integer that represents the number of characters in the text object.
Example
The following example returns the number of characters in the selected text:
var textLength = fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].length;
text.lineType
Availability
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
text.lineType
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