ACTIONSCRIPT 3 Developer’s Guide en

ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0 DEVELOPER’S GUIDE
Using the Flash Text Engine
package com.example.programmingas3.newslayout
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.text.engine.*;
public class MultiColumnText extends Sprite
{
private var tb:TextBlock;
private var te:TextElement;
private var numColumns:uint = 2;
private var gutter:uint = 10;
private var leading:Number = 1.25;
private var preferredWidth:Number = 400;
private var preferredHeight:Number = 100;
private var colWidth:int = 200;
public function MultiColumnText(txt:String = "",cols:uint = 2,
gutter:uint = 10, w:Number = 400, h:Number = 100,
ef:ElementFormat = null):void
{
this.numColumns = Math.max(1, cols);
this.gutter = Math.max(1, gutter);
this.preferredWidth = w;
this.preferredHeight = h;
this.setColumnWidth();
var field:FormattedTextBlock = new FormattedTextBlock(ef,txt,this.colWidth);
var totLines:int = field.totalTextLines;
field = null;
var linesPerCol:int = Math.ceil(totLines/cols);
tb = new TextBlock();
te = new TextElement(txt,ef);
tb.content = te;
var textLine:TextLine = null;
var x:Number = 0;
var y:Number = 0;
var i:int = 0;
var j:int = 0;
while (textLine = tb.createTextLine(textLine,this.colWidth,0,true))
{
textLine.x = Math.floor(i/(linesPerCol+1))*(this.colWidth+this.gutter);
textLine.y = y;
y += this.leading*textLine.height;
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