MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-EXTENDING FLASH, Manual

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TextAttrs object 459
Description
Property; a Boolean value. A value of
true
causes text to appear with the bold version of
the font.
Example
The following example selects the first character of the selected text object and sets the
bold
property to
true
:
fl.getDocumentDOM().setTextSelection(0, 1);
fl.getDocumentDOM().setElementTextAttr('bold', true);
textAttrs.characterPosition
Availability
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
textAttrs.characterPosition
Description
Property; a string that determines the baseline for the text. Acceptable values are
"normal"
,
"subscript"
, and
"superscript"
. This property applies only to static text.
Example
The following example selects the characters from index 2 up to, but not including, index 6 of
the selected text field and sets the
characterPosition
property to
"subscript"
:
fl.getDocumentDOM().setTextSelection(2, 6);
fl.getDocumentDOM().setElementTextAttr("characterPosition", "subscript");
textAttrs.characterSpacing
Availability
Flash MX 2004. Deprecated in Flash 8 in favor of
textAttrs.letterSpacing
.
Usage
textAttrs.characterSpacing