186 Working with Text
To set text field properties dynamically:
1. Select Window > Actions to open the Actions panel if it isn’t already open.
2. Do one of the following to create a text field:
■ Select the Text tool and create a text field on the Stage. Assign the text field an instance
name in the Property inspector. For this example, enter the instance name myText.
■ Double-click the createTextField method of the MovieClip object in the Actions
toolbox to add it to the Script pane in the Actions panel. See “Creating text”
on page 162. For this example, enter the instance name myText as a parameter of the
createTextField method.
3. Do one of the following to place text in the text field:
■ Enter text into the text field on the Stage.
■ Set the text property of the TextField object. See “Creating text” on page 162.
4. In the Actions toolbox, select the Built-in Classes category, then select the Movie category,
then select the TextField category, and then select the Properties category. Finally, double-
click the
multiline property.
5. Enter the following parameters:
■ Object is the instance name of the text field whose property you want to set.
■ Value is the value of the property.
6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for the wordWrap and border properties. The following code appears
in the Script pane:
mytext.multiline = true;
mytext.wordWrap = true;
mytext.border = true;
For a complete list of TextField object methods and detailed descriptions of each, see
TextField in ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference.
Formatting text dynamically
You can use the ActionScript TextFormat object to set properties of a text field. A TextFormat
object incorporates character and paragraph formatting information. Character formatting
information describes the appearance of individual characters: font name, point size, color,
and an associated URL. Paragraph formatting information describes the appearance of a
paragraph: left margin, right margin, indention of the first line, and left, right, or center
alignment.
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