Using The Textarea Component - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-COMPONENTS LANGUAGE Reference

Using the TextArea component

You can use a TextArea component wherever you need a multiline text field. If you need a
single-line text field, use the
component as a comment field in a form. You could set up a listener that checks if the field is
empty when a user tabs out of the field. That listener could display an error message
indicating that a comment must be entered in the field.
TextArea parameters
You can set the following authoring parameters for each TextArea component instance in the
Property inspector or the Component inspector (Window > Component Inspector menu
option):
editable indicates whether the TextArea component is editable (
default value is .
true
html
indicates whether the text is formatted with HTML (
set to , you can format the text using the font tag. The default value is
true
text
indicates the contents of the TextArea component. You cannot enter carriage returns in
the Property inspector or the Component inspector. The default value is "" (an empty string).
wordWrap
indicates whether the text wraps (
If you create a TextArea using the createClassObject() method, the default value for
wordWrap is false.
You can set the following additional parameters for each TextArea component instance in the
Component inspector (Window > Component Inspector):
maxChars is the maximum number of characters that the text area can contain. The default
value is (meaning unlimited).
null
restrict
indicates the set of characters that a user can enter in the text area. The default value is
. See "TextArea.restrict" on page
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enabled
is a Boolean value that indicates whether the component can receive focus and input.
The default value is
true
password
is a Boolean value that indicates whether the input is a password or other text that
should be hidden from view as it is typed. Flash hides the input characters with asterisks. The
default value is
false
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