ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

TextField.textHeight Property

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this.createTextField("title_txt", 1, 0, 0, 200, 20);

title_txt.text = "The Story of Princess Gwendolyn";

title_txt.textColor = 0xFF0000;

To set the background color, use the backgroundColor property. To color and format text

on a character-by-character basis, use setTextFormat() or

htmlText instead. Any assign-

ment to

textColor overwrites specific character color information contained in the field’s

htmlText property or TextFormat objects. Once textColor is set, all subsequent text appears

in the specified color. Functionally, assigning

textColor is identical to creating a

TextFormat object with a

color property set, then applying that format to the entire field

with setTextFormat() and also applying it to any new text with setNewTextFormat(). The

value of

textColor is also reflected in htmlText if the html property is true.

See Also

The Color class, TextField.backgroundColor, TextField.borderColor, TextField.html,

TextField.htmlText, TextField.setNewTextFormat(), TextField.setTextFormat()

TextField.textHeight Property

pixel height of all the text in the text field

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theField.textHeight

Description

The integer textHeight property indicates the pixel height of the entire body of text

contained by

theField. It is not ...