MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004 - ACTIONSCRIPT Reference Manual page 138

To format a text field with the TextFormat class:
In a new Flash document, create a text field on the Stage using the Text tool. Type some text
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in the text field on the Stage, like "Bold, italic, 24 point text".
In the Property inspector, type
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from the Text Type pop-up menu, and select Multiline from the Line Type pop-up menu.
In the Timeline, select the first frame in Layer 1 and open the Actions panel (Window >
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Development Panels > Actions).
Enter the following code in the Actions panel to create a TextFormat object, and set its
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and properties to
italic
// Create a TextFormat object
var txtfmt_fmt = new TextFormat();
// Specify paragraph and character formatting
txtfmt_fmt.bold = "true";
txtfmt_fmt.italic = "true";
txtfmt_fmt.size = "24"
Apply the TextFormat object to the text field you created in step 1 using
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TextField.setTextFormat()
myText_txt.setTextFormat(txtfmt_fmt);
This version of
There are two other versions of this method that let you apply formatting to individual
characters or groups of characters. For example, the following code applies bold, italic, 24-
point formatting to the first four characters you entered in the text field.
myText_txt.setTextFormat(txtfmt_fmt, 0, 3);
For more information, see
Select Control > Test Movie to test the movie.
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Default properties of new text fields
Text fields created at runtime with
the following properties:
font = "Times New Roman"
size = 12
textColor = 0x000000
bold = false
italic = false
underline = false
url = ""
target = ""
align = "left"
leftMargin = 0
rightMargin = 0
indent = 0
leading = 0
bullet = false
tabStops = [] (empty array)
For a complete list of TextFormat methods and their descriptions, see the
in Chapter 12, "ActionScript Dictionary," on page
138 Chapter 8: Working with Text
myText_txt
, and its
true
.
applies the specified formatting to the entire text field.
setTextFormat()
TextField.setTextFormat()
createTextField()
in the Instance Name text box, select Dynamic
property to 24.
size
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receive a default TextFormat object with
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bold
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TextFormat class entry