Very long dynamic text field

[debbieg]

Hi,

I'm loading info from an XML file into a dynamic text field. At first, I did this by placing the text field on the stage and giving it a variable name. This worked fine except that I don't want to have to scroll this text field. I just want a very long list that would be scrolled using the browser scroll bar.

The stage area isn't big enough to accommodate a text box that will display all of the dynamic text, so I created a text box with AS. My text still displays, but I still have to define the height of the AS text box, so I'm right back where I started.

How do I create a text box that will display all of my data (without scrolling) regardless of the length.

Using Flash MX,
Thanks a bunch,
Debbie

[a_modified_dog]

mytextfield.multiline = true;
mytextfield.autoSize = true;

hth

[debbieg]

Hi a_modified_dog,
Thanks so much for taking the time to reply, but I had already tried that. I should have included my code before. My entire movie is only two frames with AS assigned to each of them. I have the code to parse the xml file to the variable list, and I have the code below to display it. Everything works perfectly, but the display always gets truncated. The document property options will only allow me to make the movie 2880px, so the height that I specify for my faqlisting text box doesn't matter.

function makeText(myText) {
createTextfield("faqListing", 0, 4, 3, 650, 2880);
faqListing.background = false;
faqListing.border = false;
faqListing.wordWrap = true;
faqListing.multiline = true;
faqListing.autoSize = true;
faqlisting.html = true;
faqListing.htmlText = myText;

// format
listformat = new TextFormat();
listformat.color = 0x000000;
listformat.font = "verdana";
listformat.size = 10;

faqlisting.setTextFormat(listformat);
}

makeText(list);

I can't believe that I figured out the hard part, the xml; and now can't get it to display. I feel like I'm missing something obvious.

Thanks again for any help,
Debbie