NAME

SWF::TextField - SWF TextField class

SYNOPSIS

use SWF::TextField;
$textfield = new SWF::TextField([flags]);

DESCRIPTION

Unlike SWF::Text objects, TextFields cannot be rotated, scaled non-proportionally, or skewed. However, TextFields can be used as form entries and they can use browser-defined fonts.

NOTES:

TextField is implemented into Flash since Flash3. 
Most of features for TextFields are available since Flash4.
Simple HTML-tags in TextField are possible since Flash5.

METHODS

new SWF::TextField([flags]);

Creates a TextField object whose behaviour is dictated by flags (see also SWF::Constants):

SWFTEXTFIELD_NOEDIT:        Non-editable Textfiled
SWFTEXTFIELD_PASSWORD:      Obscure user input with astricts.
SWFTEXTFIELD_DRAWBOX:       Draw a border around TextField
SWFTEXTFIELD_MULTILINE:     TextFiels may contain multiple lines
SWFTEXTFIELD_WORDWRAP:      Warp text when text reaches TextField border
SWFTEXTFIELD_NOSELECT:      TextField is not selected when user clicks on it
SWFTEXTFIELD_ALIGN_LEFT:    Align text to the left
SWFTEXTFIELD_ALIGN_RIGHT:   Align text to the right
SWFTEXTFIELD_ALIGN_CENTER:  Align text to the center
SWFTEXTFIELD_ALIGN_JUSTIFY: Justify text
SWFTEXTFIELD_HTML:          Add HTML markup string
SWFTEXTFIELD_HASLENGTH:     
SWFTEXTFIELD_USEFONT:       Want to embed font
SWFTEXTFIELD_AUTOSIZE:

Flags may be combined with the bitwise OR operation. For example:

my $t = new SWF::TextField(SWFTEXTFIELD_MULTILINE | SWFTEXTFIELD_WORDWRAP);

$textfield->addString($string)

Add $string to TextField. Text is appended to the existing text.

$textfield->align(alignment)

Set the alignment of the text in the textfield. Possible values are

SWFTEXTFIELD_ALIGN_LEFT
SWFTEXTFIELD_ALIGN_RIGHT
SWFTEXTFIELD_ALIGN_CENTER
SWFTEXTFIELD_ALIGN_JUSTIFY

By default a SWF::TextField ist left aligned.

$textfield->setBounds(width, height)

Sets the width and height of the textfield.

$textfield->setColor(red, green, blue [, alpha])

Set the color of the text. An 8 bit value for each parameter. You can use the hex or decimal notation. Even mixed.

$tf->setColor(0xcc,0,0x33);
$tf->setColor(204,0,51,255);

$textfield->setFont($font)

Sets an SWF::Font object -$font- to be used in the TextField.

$textfield->setPadding(padding)

Set TextField padding.

$textfield->setHeight(height)

Set the height of font in your textfield.

$textfield->setIndentation(indentation)

Set the indentation of the first line of a paragraph.

$textfield->setLeftMargin(left)

Sets the left margin of the textfield.

$textfield->setRightMargin(right)

Sets the right margin of the textfield.

$textfield->setMargins(left, right)

Sets left and right margins of $textfield.

$textfield->setLineSpacing(linespacing)

Sets the space between lines.

$textfield->setName($name)

Assigns a name to the TextField which could be used to reference the TextField within ActionScript.

$textfield->addChars(string)

AUTHOR

Soheil Seyfaie (soheil at users.sourceforge.net).

SEE ALSO

SWF, SWF::Action, SWF::Button, SWF::Constants, SWF::DisplayItem, SWF::Font, SWF::Movie, SWF::MovieCip, SWF::Text