ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

TextFormat.font Property

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TextFormat.color Property

specifies character color

Flash 6

read/write

theFormat.color

Description

The integer color property specifies the color of characters using RGB hexadecimal triplet

notation—

0xRRGGBB, where RR, GG, and BB are two-digit hex numbers representing Red,

Green, and Blue. For example, the following sets

color to red:

theFormat.color = 0xFF0000;

For a complete discussion of RGB triplet notation, see the Color class.

To set the color of 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 = "Play with color."

// Create a TextFormat object

format = new TextFormat();

format.color = 0xFF0000;

// Make the whole field red

theField_txt.setTextFormat(format);

Alternatively, use the convenient TextField.textColor property directly on the field,

without a TextFormat object:

theField_txt.textColor = 0xFF0000;

To set the color of a single character, apply the format with a single index argument:

theField_txt.setTextFormat(0, format); // Make the first character red

To set the color of a range of characters, apply the format with start and end index

arguments:

theField_txt.setTextFormat(10, 15, ...