Recipe 9.7. Displaying Text

Problem

You want to display text within a text field.

Solution

Set the text property of a text field.

Discussion

Aside from being used as input fields, text fields are often used to display text to the user. Setting a text field's text property causes the corresponding text to display in the field:

field.text = "this will display in the field";

Special characters, such as \\t for tab and \\n for newline, can be used within a text string.

You can append text by using the += operator or the appendText( ) method:

field.appendText("new text");

See Also

Recipe 9.8 for information on support for HTML-formatted text.