You can use an instance of the TextField class to display text
or create a text input field on the screen in Adobe® Flash® Player or Adobe® AIR™. The TextField class is the basis for other
text-based components, such as the TextArea components or the TextInput
components.
Text field content
can be pre-specified in the SWF file, loaded from a text file or database,
or entered by a user interacting with your application. Within a
text field, the text can appear as rendered HTML content, with images
embedded in the rendered HTML. After you create an instance of a
text field, you can use flash.text classes, such as TextFormat and
StyleSheet, to control the appearance of the text. The
flash.text package
contains nearly
all the classes related to creating, managing, and formatting text
in ActionScript.
You can format text by defining the formatting with a TextFormat
object and assigning that object to the text field. If your text
field contains HTML text, you can apply a StyleSheet object to the
text field to assign styles to specific pieces of the text field
content. The TextFormat object or StyleSheet object contains properties
defining the appearance of the text, such as color, size, and weight. The
TextFormat object assigns the properties to all the content within
a text field or to a range of text. For example, within the same
text field, one sentence can be bold red text and the next sentence
can be blue italic text.
In addition to the classes in the flash.text package, you can
use the flash.events.TextEvent class to respond to user actions
related to text.
