MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING COMPONENTS Use Manual page 752

Usage
textInputInstance.hPosition
Description
Property; defines the horizontal position of the text in the field. The default value is 0.
Example
The following code displays the leftmost character in the field:
myTextInput.hPosition = 0;
TextInput.length
Availability
Flash Player 6 (6.0 79.0).
Edition
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
inputInstance.length
Description
Property (read-only); a number that indicates the number of characters in a TextInput
component. A character such as tab (
Example
The following code determines the number of characters in the
to the variable:
length
var length = myTextInput.length;
TextInput.maxChars
Availability
Flash Player 6 (6.0 79.0).
Edition
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
textInputInstance.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 this property is
default value is
null
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"\t"
property allows; this property indicates only how much text a user
maxChars
, there is no limit to the amount of text a user can enter. The
null
.
) counts as one character. The default value is 0.
myTextInput
string and copies it