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Nov 25 / Peter deHaan

Creating multiline Button component labels in Flash with ActionScript 3.0

The following example demonstrates how to create a button with a multiline label using the textField property to access the Button instance’s internal TextField object.

Full code after the jump.

// ActionScript 3.0
// Import the required component classes.
import fl.controls.Button;
 
// Create a new TextFormat object and set the align property to "center".
var myTextFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
myTextFormat.align = TextFormatAlign.CENTER;
 
/* Create a new Button component instance, set the textFormat style to the
   TextFormat object created earlier, and add the button to the display list. */
var myButton:Button = new Button();
myButton.label = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog";
myButton.textField.wordWrap = true;
myButton.setStyle("textFormat", myTextFormat);
myButton.setSize(120, 60);
myButton.move(10, 10);
addChild(myButton);
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  1. luke / Feb 24 2009

    hey , this is great helpful code but when i rollover the button it narrows the textfield width every time, creating a strange effect. its like flash is decreasing the wordwrap limit or text field width every time rollover occurs. is there a fix for this?

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