stretching dynamic text fields

[J-Dogg]

Hi everyone,

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

[J-Dogg]

Hi everyone,

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

[J-Dogg]

Someone answered in another news group:
Using instance names for text areas in MX, you can use the property
"autoSize".

"J-Dogg" <j-dogg@quitspammingme.net> wrote in message
news:vZqsb.18438$jA6.13867@bignews6.bellsouth.net. ..

> Hi everyone,
>
> 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
>
>