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Text object 317
endIndex An integer that is a range of text, which starts at startIndex and goes up to, but not
including,
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 TextRun 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.
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 not including,
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);
text.setTextString()
Availability
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
text.setTextString(text [, startIndex [, endIndex]])
Parameters
text
A string that consists of the characters to be inserted into this text object.
startIndex An integer that specifies the index (zero-based) of the character in the string where
the text will be inserted. This parameter is optional.
endIndex An integer that specifies the index of the end point in the selected text string. The
new text overwrites the text from
startIndex up to, but not including, endIndex. This
parameter is optional.
Returns
Nothing.