User Guide

680 ActionScript classes

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 2.0

Parameters

beginIndex:Number [optional] - An integer that specifies the first character of the desired

text span. If you do not specify

beginIndex and endIndex, the TextFormat is applied to the

entire TextField.

endIndex:Number [optional] - An integer that specifies the first character after the desired

text span. If you specify

beginIndex but do not specify endIndex, the TextFormat is applied

to the single character specified by

beginIndex.

textFormat:TextFormat - A TextFormat object, which contains character and paragraph

formatting information.

Example

The following example sets the text format for two different strings of text. The

setTextFormat() method is called and applied to the my_txt text field.

var format1_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();

format1_fmt.font = "Arial";

var format2_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();

format2_fmt.font = "Courier";

var string1:String = "Sample string number one."+newline;

var string2:String = "Sample string number two."+newline;

this.createTextField("my_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 0, 0, 300, 200);

my_txt.multiline = true;

my_txt.wordWrap = true;

my_txt.text = string1;

var firstIndex:Number = my_txt.length;

my_txt.text += string2;

var secondIndex:Number = my_txt.length;

my_txt.setTextFormat(0, firstIndex, format1_fmt);

my_txt.setTextFormat(firstIndex, secondIndex, format2_fmt);