MX2004-Text Area component HTML tag freaking dynamically created string out.

[pup100]

Hi,

I am using a text area component in MX2004 to print out a line of text one letter at a time.

I had the whole thing working great, but wanted to put some HTML formatting into it, so added the line of code to enable HTML in the field into which I was typing. Now when I I test the movie each letter appears on a separate line so you will get something like:

S
h
e

s
e
l
l
s

Can anyone offer me any help on this.

Code set out below.

Fla attached.

code:

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holdEm_str = "She sells sea shells on the sea shore";

_root.past_txt.html = true;

counter = holdEm_str.length;

down = 0;

function addLetter() {

	if (down<counter) {

		_root.past_txt.text += holdEm_str.slice(down, down+1);

		down++;

		past.focusTextField.scroll = past_txt.focusTextField.bottomScroll;

	} else {

		clearInterval(letterTime);

	}

}

var letterTime = setInterval(addLetter, 45);

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