ACTIONSCRIPT 3 Developer’s Guide en

ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0 DEVELOPER’S GUIDE
Basics of Working with text
HTML text Text content entered into a text field using ActionScript that includes HTML formatting tags along with
actual text content.
Input text field A text field whose contents can be changed either by user input or by ActionScript.
Kerning An adjustment of the spacing between pairs of characters to make the spacing in words more proportional
and the text easier to read.
Static text field A text field created in the authoring tool, whose content cannot change when the SWF file is running.
Text line metrics Measurements of the size of various parts of the text content in a text field, such as the baseline of the
text, the height of the top of the characters, size of descenders (the part of some lowercase letters that extends below
the baseline), and so on.
Tracking An adjustment of spacing between groups of letters or blocks of text to increase or decrease the density and
make the text more readable.
Last updated 6/6/2012
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