Dynamicly create text?

[JeremysFilms]

How do I create text dynamicly through AS?

[MJKram]

_root.createTextField("textname", depth , x , y , width , height);
textname.text = "message here";

eg.

_root.createTextField("score", 1 , 150 ,50 , 125 , 50);
score.text = "SCORE: "+sc;

[JeremysFilms]

Thanks!!

But how would I give it a font, font size, color, boldness, etc.?

[Denvish]

MovieClip.createTextField()
Availability
Flash Player 6.

Usage
my_mc.createTextField(instanceName, depth, x, y, width, height)

Parameters
instanceName A string that identifies the instance name of the new text field.

depth A positive integer that specifies the depth of the new text field.

x An integer that specifies the x coordinate of the new text field.

y An integer that specifies the y coordinate of the new text field.

width A positive integer that specifies the width of the new text field.

height A positive integer that specifies the height of the new text field.

Returns
Nothing.

Description
Method; creates a new, empty text field as a child of the movie clip specified by my_mc. You can use createTextField() to create text fields while a SWF file plays. The text field is positioned at (x, y) with dimensions width by height. The x and y parameters are relative to the container movie clip; these parameters correspond to the _x and _y properties of the text field. The width and height parameters correspond to the _width and _height properties of the text field.

The default properties of a text field are as follows:

type = "dynamic"
border = false
background = false
password = false
multiline = false
html = false
embedFonts = false
variable = null
maxChars = null

A text field created with createTextField() receives the following default TextFormat object:

font = "Times New Roman"
size = 12
textColor = 0x000000
bold = false
italic = false
underline = false
url = ""
target = ""
align = "left"
leftMargin = 0
rightMargin = 0
indent = 0
leading = 0
bullet = false
tabStops = [] (empty array)

Example
The following example creates a text field with a width of 300, a height of 100, an x coordinate of 100, a y coordinate of 100, no border, red, and underlined text.

_root.createTextField("mytext",1,100,100,3
00,100);
mytext.multiline = true;
mytext.wordWrap = true;
mytext.border = false;

myformat = new TextFormat();
myformat.color = 0xff0000;
myformat.bullet = false;
myformat.underline = true;

mytext.text = "this is my first test field object text";
mytext.setTextFormat(myformat);

See also
TextFormat class

[JeremysFilms]

How do I make the text in the text box centered?

[Denvish]

At 7/23/05 07:24 PM, jeremysfilms wrote: How do I make the text in the text box centered?

myformat = new TextFormat();
myformat.align="center"

mytext.text = "this is my first test field object text";
mytext.setTextFormat(myformat);

[JeremysFilms]

Is there any way to do it without using the textFormat object? Like just saying:

myText.align="center"??

Or do I need to use textFormat?

[Denvish]

At 7/23/05 07:30 PM, jeremysfilms wrote: Is there any way to do it without using the textFormat object? Like just saying:

myText.align="center"??

Or do I need to use textFormat?

I've found that some of the textformat stuff you can get away with just stating (eg.textname.text="Radish";), but some of the stuff requires you to actually create the newTextFormat and apply it to your textbox with .setTextFormat(jhlfkksd)

I think 'align' is one of the ones you have to declare with a newTextFormat