[denizci2000]

hi guys,
I have little problem here. I have button and it should create textfield which is resizeable, dragable, and dynamic. When the user clicks the button(it will create textfield automatically) he can place the text around the page and also change its size or change the content. I need to know is it possible?

[prisma]

Hi and welcome to FlashMove, denizci2000.
Since Flash MX you can alter a textfields position, sizing etc. with actionscript, so yes, it's possible.

[denizci2000]

no! I mean you can alter position and resizing but Can you drag and drop the text and resize without giving values. I mean I have a button and after you click the button user should create text field with cursor and write what ever he wnar then can click the text field and drag and drop where he wants. like we do in designing time. The problem is the text field is not dragable because it is not a movie clip or button. But It should be a trick or something. come on guys!

[prisma]

Yes it is possible. You can simply place the textfiel inside a movieclip for example.

[denizci2000]

but in this case you can't change the size of the textfield do you?

[TheDutch]

TextField.textWidth



Availability

Flash Player 6.



Usage

my_txt.textWidth:Number



Description

Property; indicates the width of the text.



Example

See the example for TextField.textHeight.

TextField.textHeight



Availability

Flash Player 6.



Usage

my_txt.textHeight:Number



Description

Property; indicates the height of the text.



Example

The following example creates a text field, and assigns a string of text to the field. A trace

statement is used to display the text height and width in the Output panel. The autoSize

property is then used to resize the text field, and the new height and width will also be displayed

in the Output panel.



this.createTextField("my_txt", 99, 10, 10, 100, 300);

my_txt.text = "Sample text";

trace("textHeight: "+my_txt.textHeight+", textWidth: "+my_txt.textWidth);

trace("_height: "+my_txt._height+", _width: "+my_txt._width+"\n");

my_txt.autoSize = true;

trace("after my_txt.autoSize = true;");

trace("_height: "+my_txt._height+", _width: "+my_txt._width);

Which outputs the following information:

textHeight: 15, textWidth: 56

_height: 300, _width: 100

after my_txt.autoSize = true;

_height: 19, _width: 60

TextField.autoSize



Availability

Flash Player 6.



Usage

my_txt.autoSize:String

my_txt.autoSize:Boolean



Description

Property; controls automatic sizing and alignment of text fields. Acceptable values for autoSize are

"none" (the default), "left", "right", and "center". When you set the autoSize property,

true is a synonym for "left" and false is a synonym for "none".

The values of autoSize and TextField.wordWrap determine whether a text field expands or

contracts to the left side, right side, or bottom side. The default value for each of these properties

is false.

If autoSize is set to "none" (the default) or false, then no resizing will occur.

If autoSize is set to "left" or true, then the text is treated as left-justified text, meaning the left

side of the text field will remain fixed and any resizing of a single line text field will be on the right

side. 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 right side will remain fixed.

If autoSize is set to "right", then the text is treated as right-justified text, meaning the right

side of the text field will remain fixed and any resizing of a single line text field will be on the left

side. 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 side will remain fixed.

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.

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;

false_txt.text = "This is much longer text";

};

// register the listener object with the Mouse object

Mouse.addListener(myMouseListener);

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