MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING COMPONENTS Use Manual page 736

TextArea.maxChars
Availability
Flash Player 6 (6.0 79.0).
Edition
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
textAreaInstance.maxChars
Description
Property; the maximum number of characters that the text field can contain. A script may insert
more text than the
can enter. If the value of this property is
enter. The default value is
Example
The following example limits the number of characters a user can enter to 255:
myTextArea.maxChars = 255;
TextArea.maxHPosition
Availability
Flash Player 6 (6.0 79.0).
Edition
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
textAreaInstance.maxHPosition
Description
Property (read-only); the maximum value of
Example
The following code causes the text to scroll to the far right:
myTextArea.hPosition = myTextArea.maxHPosition;
See also
TextArea.vPosition
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property allows; the property indicates only how much text a user
maxChars
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.
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, there is no limit to the amount of text a user can
TextArea.hPosition
. The default value is 0.