ActionScript 3.0 :: Setting Different Formats To Segments Of Text In A Text Field?
Dec 5, 2009
I want to assign different formatting to different segments of text in a textfield. I tried assigning a format to a string and then concatinated it to the text and it was not accepted.How would I assign different formatting in the same textfield?
code follows:
format assigned to the textfield:
var sngTitle:TextField = new TextField(); sngTitle.text = 'Title: ';var sngTtlForm:TextFormat = new TextFormat(); sngTtlForm.font = "Stencil Std"; sngTtlForm.italic = true; sngTtlForm.color = 0xffcc00; sngTtlForm.size = 24; text I want to add to the above textfield:[code]................
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