Can somebody hep me figure this out. I am creating a text box with actionscript,the width needs to be the 323, but the height to be dynamic. My reason for doing this is that I am going to make this a scrolling text box and I will probably have different amounts of text load into here at different times. Another weird thing is that is seems like my text box is cramming as much text as it can inside it, therefor ignoring my font size.


var externalData:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
externalData.load("bio.txt");

this.createTextField("bio_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 12, 31, 323, 800);
externalData.onLoad = function() {
    bio_txt.text = externalData.bioText;
}
bio_txt.autoSize = false;
bio_txt.border = true;
bio_txt.borderColor = 0x00FF00;
bio_txt.multiline = true;
bio_txt.selectable = false;
bio_txt.wordWrap = true;

var my_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
my_fmt.font = "Arial"
my_fmt.size = 15
bio_txt.setTextFormat(my_fmt);

Thanks In Advance
Peace
Mike

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Mike
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You may want to try asking this at Flash Kit. There's bound to be someone there that can help you.


Sorry I couldn't help any,



Ben Horne
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Welcome to the New Age

I figured it out, I had to make a few adjustments though. One thing that I could hardly find anything on was when using a mask with the createTextField you have to embed the font by copying it into your library. Then attach it on export. you can see it in action at
http://www.snakeshakers.com/snakeshakers_mv.html


var externalData:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
externalData.load("bio.txt");

this.createTextField("bio_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 12, 31, 323, 20);
externalData.onLoad = function() {
    bio_txt.text = externalData.bioText;
}
with(bio_txt){
    embedFonts=true;
    type = "dynamic";
    autoSize = true;
    border = false;
    borderColor = 0x00FF00;
    multiline = true;
    selectable = false;
    wordWrap = true;

}

var my_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
with(my_fmt){
    font = "SnakeArial";
    size = 12;
}
bio_txt.setNewTextFormat(my_fmt);

Peace
Mike