User Guide

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Parameters
attrName A string that specifies the name of the TextAttrs object property to change.
attrValue The value for the TextAttrs object property.
startIndex An integer that is the index (zero-based) of the first character in the array. This
parameter is optional.
endIndex An integer that specifies the index of the end point in the selected text string,
which starts at
startIndex and goes up to, but does not include, endIndex. This parameter
is optional.
Returns
Nothing.
Description
Method; sets the attribute specified by the attrName parameter associated with the text
identified by
startIndex and endIndex to the value specified by attrValue. This method
can be used to change attributes of text that might span TextRun elements (see Te xt Ru n
object), or that are portions of existing TextRun elements. Using it may change the position
and number of TextRun elements within this object’s
text.textRuns array (see
text.textRuns).
If you omit the optional parameters, the method uses the entire text object’s character range.
If you specify only
startIndex, the range is a single character at that position. If you specify
both
startIndex and endIndex, the range starts from startIndex and goes up to, but does
not include, the character located at
endIndex.
Example
The following example sets the selected text field to italic:
fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].setTextAttr("italic", true);
The following example sets the size of the third character to 10:
fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].setTextAttr("size", 10, 2);
The following example sets the color to red for the third through the eighth character of the
selected text:
fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].setTextAttr("fillColor", 0xff0000, 2, 8);
NOTE
For a list of possible values for attrName and attrValue, see “Property summary for the
TextAttrs object” on page 456
.