ActionScript 3.0 Flash CS5/CS6 Classroom in a Book: Lesson 8 - Creating and Formatting Text

Lesson 8: Creating and Formatting Text with ActionScript

In this lesson, you will learn to do the following:

1. Create a text field with ActionScript using the new TLFTextField class.
2. Set TLFTextField properties with ActionScript.
3. Use methods and events of the URLLoader class to load text into a TLFTextField instance.
4. Use the TextFormat class to control the color, font, and size of a TLFTextField instance.
5. Load a MovieClip asset from the library at runtime that contains multiple user interface components that allow the user to format text.
6. Create an event listener for a keyboard event to show and hide the loaded movie clip.
7. Create a UIScrollBar instance using ActionScript.
8. Use ActionScript to hide and show a text field scroll bar as needed.