User Guide

732 Chapter 7: ActionScript for Flash
Example
The following example outputs the number of characters in the date_txt text field, which
displays the current date.
var today:Date = new Date();
this.createTextField("date_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 10, 100, 22);
date_txt.autoSize = true;
date_txt.text = today.toString();
trace(date_txt.length);
TextField.maxChars
Availability
Flash Player 6.
Usage
my_txt.maxChars:Number
Description
Property; indicates the maximum number of characters that the text field can contain. A script
may insert more text than
maxChars allows; the maxChars property indicates only how much text
a user can enter. If the value of this property is
null, there is no limit on the amount of text a user
can enter.
Example
The following example creates a text field called age_txt that only lets users enter up to two
numbers in the field.
this.createTextField("age_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 10, 30, 22);
age_txt.type = "input";
age_txt.border = true;
age_txt.maxChars = 2;
age_txt.restrict = "0-9";
TextField.maxhscroll
Availability
Flash Player 6.
Usage
my_txt.maxhscroll:Number
Description
Read-only property; indicates the maximum value of TextField.hscroll.
Example
See the example for TextField.hscroll.