Chapter 8. Text

Introduction

Recipe 8.1.  Referring to a Text Field via ActionScript

Recipe 8.2.  Creating a Text Field

Recipe 8.3.  Creating an Outline Around a Text Field

Recipe 8.4.  Creating a Background for a Text Field

Recipe 8.5.  Making a User Input Field

Recipe 8.6.  Making a Password Input Field

Recipe 8.7.  Filtering Text Input

Recipe 8.8.  Restricting the Maximum Field Length

Recipe 8.9.  Displaying Dynamic Text at Runtime

Recipe 8.10.  Displaying HTML-Formatted Text

Recipe 8.11.  Condensing Whitespace

Recipe 8.12.  Sizing Text Fields to Fit Contents

Recipe 8.13.  Scrolling Text with the ScrollBar Component

Recipe 8.14.  Scrolling Text Programmatically

Recipe 8.15.  Responding to Scroll Events

Recipe 8.16.  Formatting Existing Text

Recipe 8.17.  Formatting User-Input Text

Recipe 8.18.  Formatting a Portion of a Text Field

Recipe 8.19.  Setting a Text Field's Font

Recipe 8.20.  Embedding Fonts

Recipe 8.21.  Creating Text That Can Be Rotated

Recipe 8.22.  Displaying Unicode Text

Recipe 8.23.  Assigning Focus to a Text Field

Recipe 8.24.  Selecting Text with ActionScript

Recipe 8.25.  Setting the Insertion Point in a Text Field

Recipe 8.26.  Responding When Text Is Selected or Deselected

Recipe 8.27.  Responding to User Text Entry

Recipe 8.28.  Adding a Hyperlink to Text