Createtextfield (Movieclip.createtextfield Method) - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-ACTIONSCRIPT 2.0 LANGUAGE Reference

createTextField (MovieClip.createTextField method)

public createTextField(instanceName:String, depth:Number, x:Number,
y:Number, width:Number, height:Number) : TextField
Creates a new, empty text field as a child of the movie clip on which you call this method. You
can use the method to create text fields while a SWF file plays. The
createTextField()
parameter determines the new text field's depth level (z-order position) in the movie
depth
clip. Each depth level can contain only one object. If you create a new text field on a depth
that already has a text field, the new text field replaces the existing text field. To avoid
overwriting existing text fields, use method to
MovieClip.getInstanceAtDepth()
determine whether a specific depth is already occupied, or the
method to determine the highest unoccupied depth.
MovieClip.getNextHighestDepth()
The text field is positioned at (x, y) with dimensions by . The and
width height x y
parameters are relative to the container movie clip; these parameters correspond to the and
_x
properties of the text field. The and parameters correspond to the
_y width height _width
and properties of the text field.
_height
The default properties of a text field are as follows:
type = "dynamic"
border = false
background = false
password = false
multiline = false
html = false
embedFonts = false
selectable = true
wordWrap = false
mouseWheelEnabled = true
condenseWhite = false
restrict = null
variable = null
maxChars = null
styleSheet = undefined
tabInded = undefined
A text field created with receives the following default TextFormat
createTextField()
object settings:
font = "Times New Roman" // "Times" on Mac OS
size = 12
color = 0x000000
bold = false
italic = false
underline = false
url = ""
target = ""
align = "left"
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