Customizing The Textinput Component - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-COMPONENTS LANGUAGE Reference

Customizing the TextInput component

You can transform a TextInput component horizontally while authoring and at runtime.
While authoring, select the component on the Stage and use the Free Transform tool or any of
the Modify > Transform commands. At runtime, use
properties and methods of the
When a TextInput component is resized, the border is resized to the new bounding box. The
TextInput component doesn't use scroll bars, but the insertion point scrolls automatically as
the user interacts with the text. The text field is then resized within the remaining area; there
are no fixed-size elements in a TextInput component. If the TextInput component is too small
to display the text, the text is clipped.
Using styles with the TextInput component
The TextInput component has its
defined on a class style declaration. Class styles override global styles; therefore, if you want to
set the
backgroundColor
custom style declaration or define it on the instance.
A TextInput component supports the following styles:
Style
backgroundColor
borderStyle
marginLeft
marginRight
color
disabledColor
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TextInput class.
backgroundColor
and style properties, you must create a different
borderStyle
Theme Description
Both The background color. The default color is white.
Both The TextInput component uses a RectBorder instance
as its border and responds to the styles defined on that
class. See
The default border style is
Both A number indicating the left margin for text. The default
value is 0.
Both A number indicating the right margin for text. The default
value is 0.
Both The text color. The default value is 0x0B333C for the
Halo theme and blank for the Sample theme.
Both The color for text when the component is disabled. The
default color is 0x848384 (dark gray).
UIObject.setSize()
and
borderStyle
"RectBorder class" on page
"inset"
or any applicable
style properties
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