MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-ACTIONSCRIPT 2.0 LANGUAGE, Reference

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If
autoSize
is set to
"center"
, then the text is treated as center-justified text, meaning any
resizing of a single line text field will be equally distributed to both the right and left sides. If
the text includes a line break (for example,
"\n" or "\r")
, then the bottom side will also be
resized to fit the next line of text. If
wordWrap
is also set to
true
, then only the bottom side of
the text field will be resized and the left and right sides will remain fixed.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 6
Example
You can use the following code and enter different values for
autoSize
to see how the field
resizes when these values change. A mouse click while the SWF file is playing will replace each
text field's "
short text"
string with longer text using several different settings for
autoSize.
this.createTextField("left_txt", 997, 10, 10, 70, 30);
this.createTextField("center_txt", 998, 10, 50, 70, 30);
this.createTextField("right_txt", 999, 10, 100, 70, 30);
this.createTextField("true_txt", 1000, 10, 150, 70, 30);
this.createTextField("false_txt", 1001, 10, 200, 70, 30);
left_txt.text = "short text";
left_txt.border = true;
center_txt.text = "short text";
center_txt.border = true;
right_txt.text = "short text";
right_txt.border = true;
true_txt.text = "short text";
true_txt.border = true;
false_txt.text = "short text";
false_txt.border = true;
// create a mouse listener object to detect mouse clicks
var myMouseListener:Object = new Object();
// define a function that executes when a user clicks the mouse
myMouseListener.onMouseDown = function() {
left_txt.autoSize = "left";
left_txt.text = "This is much longer text";
center_txt.autoSize = "center";
center_txt.text = "This is much longer text";
right_txt.autoSize = "right";
right_txt.text = "This is much longer text";
true_txt.autoSize = true;
true_txt.text = "This is much longer text";
false_txt.autoSize = false;