TextField vs Text and Label

[sFoster83]

Hopefully someone can explain the differences here to me.
I am new to AS, and it's a little frustrating.

I have a sprite and it's being added to a custom UI component

Here is the drawing code within flex:

import flash.text.TextField;    
import mx.controls.Label;
import mx.controls.Text;
var someText = new Text();
var someTextField = new TextField();
var someLabel = new Label();

graphics.clear();
graphics.lineStyle(1.0, lineColor, 1.0);
graphics.beginFill(fillColor, 1.0);

var radius:Number = size / 2;
graphics.drawCircle(radius, radius, radius);

someText.text = "Text";
addChild(someText);

someTextField.text = "TextField";
addChild(someTextField);

someLabel.text = "Finally a Label";
addChild(someLabel);

I have tried adding only one of the 3 children here (just textfield, just label, just text) and running independantly.

The only text that actually DISPLAYS on the sprite is a textfield.
The others don't seem to have been added at all, or at least don't display anything.

The problem is that I don't want any interactivity.

I just want to display text, so I would rather use a Label or a Text rather than a TextField, but for whatever reason this doesn't work for me.

Can anyone let me know how I can get the Label to show up instead, or at least explain to me why there is an incompatibility?

TextField: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/lan...TextField.html
Text: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/lan...rols/Text.html
Label: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/lan...ols/Label.html

[eggler]

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[sFoster83]

someTextField.selectable = false;

That'll make it so you can't select the text in AS 3.0... what other interactivity were you worried about?

I'm not sure about mixing in mx classes with Flex.

I just wanted to use the smallest object possible, since I am going to be creating a ton of these sprites. Label seems to have less weight, so I preferred that over a textfield.

i think there are some kind of incompatibility issues for the mx classes and flash classes like you're saying, which seems pretty short sighted on adobe's part. Oh well, I guess I need to get a book discussing in detail the differences between the as3 compiler and the mxml compiler