Text Formatting (Leading)

[kiosk99]

Hi,

I can't seem to be able to set the leading of dynamic text field to a negative leading using the textformat object.... anybody out there with the know how of this? thank you

[idi]

unfortunately this is a known bug in MX. You have to manually format a text field via the property inspector to use negative leading
The word is, that currently there is no workaround. I got this info from Flash forum at macromedia.com.

idi

[oldnewbie]

I see a FStyleFormat.textAlign property but no leading one!

[idi]

Oh, it's there alright: Textformat object --> Textformat.leading. Isn't FStyleFormat specific to components?

idi

[kiosk99]

I found a work around on the web, I forgot who it was from otherwise i would give him credit.

you can set it using HTML formating

textField.htmlText = "<p align=\"right\"><TEXTFORMAT leading=\"-5\" align=\"right\">"+textbody+&quot ;</TEXTFORMAT>&lt/p>"

[idi]

cool! thanks for sharing that info.

idi

[dsmeef]

I was looking for the same thing.. Unfortunatly this work-around does not work when you embed fonts into the textfield
Bummer, now how am I going to decrease that lineheight value :S

[kiosk99]

it works for me and i am embedding fonts

[dsmeef]

Now that is weird :S
Had to solve it some other way: by creating fixed textfields, each with a set of properties.. When I was done, it became clear to me that I should have done this later on during the project anyway, so no harm done