How to put a dynamic text field in center stage

[humbuged]

Hello

I've managed to put a text field onto the stage using AS2 but now I'm trying to make it stay in the center of the stage. Here's the code I used;

code:

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this.createTextField("dynamic_txt",1,(Stage.width/2),(Stage.height/2),1,1);

dynamic_txt.text = "This is just a test to see if this works.";

var textstyle:TextFormat = new TextFormat();

textstyle.size = 18;

textstyle.font = "Arial";

dynamic_txt.setTextFormat(textstyle);

dynamic_txt.autoSize = true;

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Right now it looks like this;


How do I make it look like this?


Thanks

[waynenort]

Hey Humbuged - It has centered it, but the starting point of your dynamic text is cented to the stage. You need to get the width of the text box(297pixels), halve it and minus it from your original centering calculation.

code:

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this.createTextField("dynamic_txt",1,(Stage.width/2),(Stage.height/2),1,1);

dynamic_txt.text = "This is just a test to see if this works.";

var textstyle:TextFormat = new TextFormat();

textstyle.size = 18;

textstyle.font = "Arial";

dynamic_txt.setTextFormat(textstyle);

dynamic_txt.autoSize = true;

trace (dynamic_txt._width)

dynamic_txt._x -= dynamic_txt._width/2

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