ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

TextField.embedFonts Property

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adds a getPageSize() method to all TextField objects; when invoked on a TextField instance,

the method returns the number of viewable lines in that field:

TextField.prototype.getPageSize = function () {

var pageSize = this.bottomScroll - (this.scroll - 1);

trace("Page size is " + pageSize);

return pageSize;

}

The page size of a text field can be used to scale a scroll handle proportionately in a corre-

sponding scroll bar. Note that the number of displayable lines in a field can vary,

depending on the font sizes of the currently displayed text.

See Also

TextField.maxscroll, TextField.scroll; the FScrollBar component in Appendix E

TextField.condenseWhite Property

specifies whether HTML whitespace should be condensed

Flash 6 (undocumented)

read/write

theField.condenseWhite

Description

When set to true, the Boolean condenseWhite property causes a field’s HTML text to be

condensed, removing all excess whitespace characters (tab, line break, space, etc.). Hence,

the field’s HTML rendering mirrors a typical web browser—multiple spaces behave as a

single space between words and the newline character “

\n” no longer serves as a line break;

the

<P> and <BR> tags must be used instead. In this mode, HTML text parsing behaves like

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