ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference for Macromedia® Flash® 8

TextField

Object
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public dynamic class TextField
extends Object

The TextField class is used to create areas for text display and input. All dynamic and input text fields in a SWF file are instances of the TextField class. You can give a text field an instance name in the Property inspector and use the methods and properties of the TextField class to manipulate it with ActionScript. TextField instance names are displayed in the Movie Explorer and in the Insert Target Path dialog box in the Actions panel.

To create a text field dynamically, you do not use the new operator. Instead, you use MovieClip.createTextField().

The methods of the TextField class let you set, select, and manipulate text in a dynamic or input text field that ...