Hi everyone,

For all the Flash junkies out there:

How do I make a text field dynamically fit its contents?

I have a movie clip instance, called "macromedia", which holds a dynamic
text area, called "myText".
The frame script in the mc says:
myText = this._name;

so when the movie is published, myText reads "macromedia".

The problem is that I want the text area to fit the text, not just be one
length and either crop the text if it's too much or be longer than the text
if it's too short.

The purpose is to duplicate the mc based on the number of items in an array,
and fill the dynamic text area "myText" with contents of the array. Then
each mc should be only as long as the sentence it contains, so it can scroll
to the end and stop within a masked area. Each sentence is between 50-100
words, and will be supplied by the client the day before the CDs get duped,
so I'd like to make it as dynamic as possible.

TIA

Jeremy

Hi Jeremy,
I hope you are using Flash MX, because with it is a very simple task:

Give your text field an instance name *in my example will be myText*, and
use the 'text' property with this object to assign a string content or in
your case the value of the '_name' property relative to your movie clip.

Example:

myText.text=this._name;


To make the text field dynamically fit its content use the 'autoSize'
property. you can assign different values to this property:
* left (the text field expands or contracts its right and bottom sides to
fit all contained text). You can use also the boolean value true for this
case.
* right ( the text field expands or contracts its left and bottom sides to
fit all contained text).
* center (the text field expands but the horizontal center of the text field
stays anchored at the text field's original horizontal center position).

Example:

myText.autoSize="left";

or

myText.autoSize=true;



HTH

cheers and let me know if all it's OK !
--
Davide :-)



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