Text Formatting

[MikeCB]

Hi Everyone,

Hope someone can help me. I am using Flash CS4 Professional and I have an input text box. I need to be able to type something into this box when viewing the flash and highlight certain bits of text and then make it bold and underlined etc. Is there anyway to do this?

I no how to make a full text box bold and underlined when clicking on a button but I only want to do this for the text that I highlight.

Please help.

Thanks

 

[kennethkawamoto]

On button press, do [tt]setTextFormat[/tt] using [tt]selectionBeginIndex[/tt] and [tt]selectionEndIndex[/tt].

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[MikeCB]

Hya kennethkawamoto,

Thanks for the reply. How would you write this in the action script?

Cheers

 

[kennethkawamoto]

An example button click function. [tt]_tf[/tt] is the input TextField.

private function boldButtonClick(e:MouseEvent):void {
   var tfmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
   tfmt.bold = true;
   _tf.setTextFormat(tfmt, _tf.selectionBeginIndex, _tf.selectionEndIndex);
}

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[MikeCB]

Hya,

I'm getting an error with this code.

Error: Attribute used outside class

 

[kennethkawamoto]

That means the code is not in the class. Are you using AS1/2? The code was AS3.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[MikeCB]

Im using AS2. I haven't started using AS3 yet

 

[kennethkawamoto]

It is kind of similar in AS2, although [tt]setTextFormat()[/tt] parameter order has been reversed:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00002237.html

You need to use [tt]Selection[/tt] class for the begin/end selection indexes:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00002110.html

Much easier in AS3

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[MikeCB]

Hya kennethkawamoto,

Sorry for the delay I haven't had chance to try this yet. I will be looking at it again tomorrow and I will let you know.

Cheers