Got a little project I'm working on...

My goal is to load a text file, create text field(s), and format them...

What I have come up with so far...

[Q]this.loadVariables("text.txt", "0");
this.createTextField("text1", 1, 100, 50, 150, 14);
text1.background = true;
text1.backgroundColor = 0xFFFF00;
text1.multiline = true;
text1.autoSize = true;
text1.wordWrap = true;
text1.border = true;
//text1.text = "this is even more text to see if this text also appears over
multiple lines based on length when created dynamically";
embedFonts = "true";
text1.font = "Arial";
text1.size = "12";
text1.textColor = 0x000088;
text1.bold = "true";
text1.variable = "text";
stop();
[/Q]

This works partly... I can't seem to embed the fonts or Bold!

In addition, this is created in a MC 12 frames long... How would I change the
text field for the second frame to load the next part of the text file? Move to
a new X/Y cord? With out having to copy, paste and edit the above to each...
Or do I need to removeTextField...(think that's right).

Would this be possible in an array? If so please do show a sample, I suck at
arrays... (haven't had time to learn and profect them)

okay,

the code that I sent on the other thread was only a start point...

you are setting a lot of attributes of a textFields format... this can all be
done in TextFormat()

some issues arise because of the order in which your code executes...

this.createTextField("text1", 1, 100, 50, 150, 14);
text = "this is even more text to see if this text also appears over multiple
lines based on length when created dynamically";

applyThisToText = new TextFormat();
applyThisToText.font = "Arial";
applyThisToText.size = "12";
applyThisToText.textColor = 0x000088;
applyThisToText.bold = "true";
embedFonts = "true";
with(text1){
background = true;
backgroundColor = 0xFFFF00;
multiline = true;
autoSize = true;
wordWrap = true;
border = true;
}
text1.text = text; // note that this is a variable set earlier text1.variable
and text1.text CAN BE interchangeable
text1.setNewTextFormat(applyThisToText);

Now if you go to a different frame and add this...

text = "This is some other text that comes from a different variable and
should display in the field accordingly";
text1.text = text;

you will see the difference in the textFormat but the text value will change...

I hope that helps some,
cheers,