Dynamic font and colour changes to textbox

[ped]

Hi NG,

I have a movieclip called: wordcontainer
and this clip contains a textbox called : wordtextbox

and I can set the movieclip to display a singlr word myWord as follows

Code:
wordcontainer.wordtextbox.text = "myWord";


I have found out how to dynamically create a new textformat as
follows:

Code:
//create a new TextFormat object
myTextFormat = new TextFormat();
//Next three lines passing the font type, size, and color
myTextFormat.font = "Celestial";
myTextFormat.size = 10;
myTextFormat.color=0xFF0000;
//applies this textformat to the "wordcontainer.wordtextbox" text box.
wordcontainer.wordtextbox.setTextFormat(myTextForm at);


so far so good, I can see that the movie clip behaves properly

I now try to duplicate this movie clip which also works properly:

Code:
for(i=0;i<5;i++){
name = "word" + i;
trace(name + " " + " " + _root.wordcontainer._width);
spacing = _root.wordcontainer._width +5;
_root.wordcontainer.duplicateMovieClip(name, i);
_root[name].wordtextbox.text = name;
trace(_root[name].wordtextbox.text);
_root[name]._x =(i*spacing) + 20;
_root[name]._y = 180 ;


}


the problem is that although the movie clip is duplicated this line
doesnt work:

_root[name].wordtextbox.text = name;

I havnt got a clue why its not working

I am trying to dynamically generate a list of words with specific font
, size and colour attributes

thanks in advance

ped

[Igor Cuckovic]

"ped" <pedmk801@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:f3b56016.0309110616.66efed66@posting.google.c om...

> Hi NG,

hi

I hope this helps

// default container
_root.wordcontainer.wordtextbox.text = "myWord";

//Code:
for(i=0;i<5;i++){
name = "word" + i;
//trace(name + " " + " " + _root.wordcontainer._width);
spacing = _root.wordcontainer._width -50;
_root.wordcontainer.duplicateMovieClip(name, i);
_root[name].wordtextbox.text = name;
// trace(_root[name].wordtextbox.text);
_root[name]._x =(i*spacing)+10;
_root[name]._y = 130 + (i * 35);

// formatting text
myTextFormat = new TextFormat();
//Next three lines passing the font type, size, and color
myTextFormat.font = "Verdana";
myTextFormat.size = 10 + i;
myTextFormat.color=0xFF0000;

//applies this textformat to the "wordcontainer.wordtextbox" text box.
wordcontainer.wordtextbox.setTextFormat(myTextForm at);
//applies this textformat to the dynamically generated "wordtextbox" text
box.
_root[name].wordtextbox.setTextFormat(myTextFormat);
}

It generates five objects with different text and size of text.

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