ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

TextFormat.indent Property

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// Assume the string is too wide to fit

var tooWide = true;

// Check if our assumption is correct

for (var i = theSubstring.length - 1; tooWide = = true && i > 0; i--) {

// If the string is too wide to fit in the field...

if (format.getTextExtent(theSubstring).width > textRegion) {

// ...remove a character, add an ellipsis, then check again.

theSubstring = theText.substr(0, i) + "...";

} else {

// ...otherwise, the string will fit, so stop checking.

tooWide = false;

}

}

// Assign the corrected string to the text field

this.text = theSubstring;

}

// Sample use of setEllipsisText()

this.createTextField("theField_txt", 1, 100, 100, 150, 60);

theField_txt.border = true;

theField_txt.setEllipsisText("If this text is too long it will be truncated.");

See Also

TextField.border, TextField._height, TextField.textHeight, TextField.textWidth,

TextField._width, TextFormat.size

TextFormat.indent Property

specifies indentation for a paragraph’s first line

Flash 6

read/write

theFormat.indent

Description

The integer indent property specifies the distance a paragraph’s first line is indented from

the text field’s left border, in pixels. Paragraphs are spans of text separated by line break

characters specified in code (

\n, <BR>,ornewline).