User Guide

TextField 665
maxscroll (TextField.maxscroll property)
public maxscroll : Number [read-only]
Indicates the maximum value of TextField.scroll.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 2.0
Example
The following example sets the maximum value for the scrolling text field
my_txt. Create two
buttons,
scrollUp_btn and scrollDown_btn, to scroll the text field. Add the following
ActionScript to your FLA or ActionScript file.
this.createTextField("scroll_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 10, 160,
20);
this.createTextField("my_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 30, 320,
240);
my_txt.multiline = true;
my_txt.wordWrap = true;
for (var i = 0; i<10; i++) {
my_txt.text += "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit,
sed diam nonummy nibh "
+ "euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat.";
}
scrollUp_btn.onRelease = function() {
my_txt.scroll--;
scroll_txt.text = my_txt.scroll+" of "+my_txt.maxscroll;
};
scrollDown_btn.onRelease = function() {
my_txt.scroll++;
scroll_txt.text = my_txt.scroll+" of "+my_txt.maxscroll;
};
multiline (TextField.multiline property)
public multiline : Boolean
Indicates whether the text field is a multiline text field. If the value is true, the text field is
multiline; if the value is
false, the text field is a single-line text field.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 2.0