Professional :: Changing The Formatting Of A TLFTextField Declared In Flash?
Dec 21, 2010
I have a TLFTextField created in Flash Professional and I'm attempting to alter it's appearance via code, in Flash Builder.
I want to retain all formatting rules already applied to the TLFTextField unless I specifically change them, however the following code:
var format:TextFormat = textField.getTextFormat();
format.align = TextFormatAlign.RIGHT;
textField.defaultTextFormat = format;
[Code]....
how to alter individual formatting properties on a TLFTextField without affecting those already set?
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