User Guide

1198 TextArea component
TextArea.password
Availability
Flash Player 6 (6.0.79.0).
Edition
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
textAreaInstance.password
Description
Property; a Boolean value indicating whether the text area is a password field (true) or not
(
false). If password is true, the text area is a password text area and hides the input
characters with asterisks. If
password is false, the text area is not a password text area. The
default value is
false.
Example
The following example treats the text in the TextArea called my_ta as a password field if the
check box called
my_ch is checked. Otherwise it treats it as ordinary text.
You must first add an instance of the TextArea component to the Stage and name it
my_ta
and also add a check box and name it
my_ch; then add the following code to Frame 1.
/**
Requires:
- TextArea instance on Stage (instance name: my_ta)
- CheckBox instance on Stage (instance name: my_ch)
*/
var my_ta:mx.controls.TextArea;
var my_ch:mx.controls.CheckBox;
my_ta.wordWrap = false;
my_ta.password = true;
my_ch.selected = my_ta.password;
var chListener:Object = new Object();
chListener.click = function(evt_obj:Object) {
my_ta.password = my_ch.selected;
}
my_ch.addEventListener("click", chListener);