ACTIONSCRIPT 3 Developer’s Guide en

ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0 DEVELOPER’S GUIDE
Using the Flash Text Engine
package
{
import flash.text.engine.*;
import flash.display.Sprite;
}
public class ReplaceTextExample extends Sprite
{
public function ReplaceTextExample()
{
}
}
var str:String = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet";
var fontDescription:FontDescription = new FontDescription("Arial");
var format:ElementFormat = new ElementFormat(fontDescription);
format.fontSize = 14;
var textElement:TextElement = new TextElement(str, format);
var textBlock:TextBlock = new TextBlock();
textBlock.content = textElement;
createLine(textBlock, 10);
textElement.replaceText(0, 0, "A text fragment: ");
createLine(textBlock, 30);
textElement.replaceText(43, 43, "...");
createLine(textBlock, 50);
textElement.replaceText(23, 28, "(ipsum)");
createLine(textBlock, 70);
function createLine(textBlock:TextBlock, y:Number):void {
var textLine:TextLine = textBlock.createTextLine(null, 300);
textLine.x = 10;
textLine.y = y;
addChild(textLine);
}
The replaceText() method replaces the text specified by the beginIndex and endIndex parameters with the text
specified by the newText parameter. If the values of the beginIndex and endIndex parameters are the same,
replaceText() inserts the specified text at that location. Otherwise it replaces the characters specified by beginIndex
and endIndex with the new text.
Handling Events in FTE
Flash Player 10 and later, Adobe AIR 1.5 and later
You can add event listeners to a TextLine instance just as you can to other display objects. For example, you can detect
when a user rolls the mouse over a text line or a user clicks the line. The following example detects both of these events.
When you roll the mouse over the line, the cursor changes to a button cursor and when you click the line, it changes
color.
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