Duplicate Text Field?

[Wumbate]

What is the text field equivalent of MovieClip.duplicateMovieClip?

Is there even one? I can't find it.

[fifkikker]

no there isnt, but you can do it via this way:

Example
The following example creates a text field with a width of 300, a height of 100, an x coordinate of 100, a y coordinate of 100, no border, red, and underlined text.


_root.createTextField("mytext",1,100,100,300,100);
mytext.multiline = true;
mytext.wordWrap = true;
mytext.border = false;

myformat = new TextFormat();
myformat.color = 0xff0000;
myformat.bullet = false;
myformat.underline = true;

mytext.text = var-name-of-other-textfield
mytext.setTextFormat(myformat);