Are some TextField parameters irreversable?

[indivision]

Try this:

In a new, blank fla, place a dynamic textfield on the stage with default settings.

Give it a name(myTextField) and a variable reference(myValue).

Set 'myValue' to some long text that wont fit horizontally in the text field.

Then, create a button that sets multiline to true( myTextField.multiline=true; ).

I would think that clicking this button should re-draw the text so that it wraps around, but it doesn't seem to affect it at all. Is there some step I'm missing to change multiline dynamically? The behavior is the same in reverse, so if you set multiline to true in the first frame when it is instantiated it works, but if you try to change it to false on a button, it doesnt do anything. Also, some other attributes, like autoSize are the same. But, I can't seem to find anything in Macromedia documentation that explains this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[jAQUAN]

omg your post count changed!

I havn't given my textfield a variable reference since flash 5. There's no point, especially since it will sometimes conflict or cancel out the instance name.

Do all your text settings through myTextField.text

[indivision]

i know it. i really had a dilemma posting this and changing my count!

I agree about using the textfield 'text' variable instead. but, do you have any info about why changing those parameters doesnt do anything once they are set at initialization?

[tonypa]

Set wordwrap to true also:

myTextField.multiline = true;
myTextField.wordWrap = true;

[indivision]

thank you.

it turns out that i just had TextFormat and TextField mixed up. I was trying to apply multiline and wordWrap via texformat. Apparently TextFormat is a dynamic class or something but it would have been nice to get type mismatch errors on this one.

Thanks again. Definitely helped me troubleshoot.

[jAQUAN]

I had that problem with embedFont too, just seems like it should go in TextFormat.