ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

TextField.borderColor Property

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To make the blue background appear, we must add the following line:

theField_txt.background = true;

Setting the value of background does not alter the value of backgroundColor.

See Also

TextField.background, TextField.border, TextField.borderColor, the Color class

TextField.border Property

Boolean; turns text field border on and off

Flash 6; accessible only via authoring tool in Flash 4 and Flash 5

read/write

theField.border

Description

The Boolean border property specifies whether to show an outline around theField’s

bounding rectangle (

true) or not (false). The outline color is specified by borderColor

(defaults to black). To change the size of the rectangle, use the _width and _height proper-

ties. To add a background color to the rectangle, use the

background and backgroundColor

properties.

To produce a more elaborate background for a text field, set

background and border to

false, and manually draw a shape behind the text field.

Example

Put a black border on theField_txt:

this.createTextField("theField_txt", 1, 0, 0, 80, 20);

theField_txt.border = true;

theField_txt.text = "hello world";

Now make the border blue:

theField_txt.borderColor = 0x0000FF;

See Also

TextField.background, TextField.backgroundColor, TextField.borderColor ...