MACROMEDIA FLEX-FLEX ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE Reference page 746

The following example includes all characters, but excludes lowercase letters:
my_txt.restrict = "^a-z";
You can use a backslash to enter a ^ or - verbatim. The accepted backslash sequences are \-, \^ or
\\. The backslash must be an actual character in the string, so when specified in ActionScript, a
double backslash must be used. For example, the following code includes only the dash (-) and
caret (^):
my_txt.restrict = "\\-\\^";
The ^ may be used anywhere in the string to toggle between including characters and excluding
characters. The following code includes only uppercase letters, but excludes the uppercase
letter Q:
my_txt.restrict = "A-Z^Q";
You can use the
only the characters from ASCII 32 (space) to ASCII 126 (tilde).
my_txt.restrict = "\u0020-\u007E";
TextField._rotation
Availability
Flash Player 6.
Usage
my_txt._rotation:Number
Description
Property; the rotation of the text field, in degrees, from its original orientation. Values from
0 to 180 represent clockwise rotation; values from 0 to -180 represent counterclockwise rotation.
Values outside this range are added to or subtracted from 360 to obtain a value within the range.
For example, the statement
Rotation values are not supported for text files that use device fonts. You must use embedded
fonts to use
_rotation
Example
In this example, you need to create a dynamic text field called
ActionScript to embed fonts and rotate the text field. The reference to
symbol in the library, with linkage set to
var my_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
my_fmt.font = "my font";
this.createTextField("my_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 10, 160, 120);
my_txt.wordWrap = true;
my_txt.embedFonts = true;
my_txt.text = "Hello world";
my_txt.setTextFormat(my_fmt);
my_txt._rotation = 45;
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escape sequence to construct
\u
my_txt._rotation = 450
with a text field.
strings. The following code includes
restrict
is the same as
my_txt
.
my font
my_txt._rotation = 90
, and then use the following
refers to a Font
my font
.