ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

TextFormat.bold Property

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The default blockIndent value (as contained in the TextFormat object returned by

TextField.getTextFormat()) for a text field that contains text is 0. For a text field without

any text, the

blockIndent value is null. For a completely new TextFormat object, it is also

null, indicating that blockIndent will not be set when the format is applied to a text field:

trace(anyUnformattedField_txt.getTextFormat().blockIndent); // Displays: 0

var format = new TextFormat();

trace(format.blockIndent); // Displays: "null"

See Also

TextField.wordWrap, TextFormat.align, TextFormat.indent, TextFormat.leftMargin,

TextFormat.rightMargin

TextFormat.bold Property

Boolean; specifies bold character display

Flash 6

read/write

theFormat.bold

Description

The Boolean bold property specifies whether characters are displayed in a bold typeface

(

true) or a regular (nonbold) typeface (false).

To set bolding for an entire text field, invoke TextField.setTextFormat() without specifying

any index arguments:

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

theField_txt.border = true;

theField_txt.text = "Press any key."

// Create a TextFormat object

format = new TextFormat();

format.bold = true;

// Bold the whole field

theField_txt.setTextFormat(format);

To set bolding ...