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textColor (TextField.textColor property)
public textColor : Number
Indicates the color of the text in a text field. The hexadecimal color system uses six digits to
represent color values. Each digit has sixteen possible values or characters. The characters
range from 0 to 9 and then A to F. Black is represented by (#000000) and white, at the
opposite end of the color system, is (#FFFFFF).
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 6
Example
The following ActionScript creates a text field and changes its color property to red.
this.createTextField("my_txt", 99, 10, 10, 100, 300);
my_txt.text = "this will be red text";
my_txt.textColor = 0xFF0000;
The MovieClip.getNextHighestDepth() method used in this example requires Flash Player
7 or later. If your SWF file includes a version 2 component, use the version 2 components'
DepthManager class instead of the MovieClip.getNextHighestDepth() method.
textHeight (TextField.textHeight property)
public textHeight : Number
Indicates the height of the text, in pixels.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 6
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
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