MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004 - ACTIONSCRIPT, Reference Manual

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The ^ may be used anywhere in the string to toggle between including characters and excluding
characters. The following code includes only uppercase letters, but excludes the uppercase
letter Q:
my_txt.restrict = "A-Z^Q";
You can use the
\u
escape sequence to construct
restrict
strings. The following code includes
only the characters from ASCII 32 (space) to ASCII 126 (tilde).
my_txt.restrict = "\u0020-\u007E";
TextField._rotation
Availability
Flash Player 6.
Usage
my_txt ._rotation
Description
Property; the rotation of the text field, in degrees, from its original orientation. Values from
0 to 180 represent clockwise rotation; values from 0 to -180 represent counterclockwise rotation.
Values outside this range are added to or subtracted from 360 to obtain a value within the range.
For example, the statement
my_txt._rotation = 450
is the same as
my_txt._rotation = 90
.
See also
Button._rotation ,
MovieClip._rotation
TextField.scroll
Availability
Flash Player 6.
Usage
my_txt .scroll
Description
Property; defines the vertical position of text in a text field. The
scroll
property is useful for
directing users to a specific paragraph in a long passage, or creating scrolling text fields. This
property can be retrieved and modified.
For more information on scrolling text, see “Creating scrolling text” on page 153 .
Example
The following code is attached to an Up button that scrolls the
my_txt
text field.
on (release) {
my_txt.scroll = myText. 1;
}
See also
TextField.hscroll
,
TextField.maxscroll