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2 Responses to Restricting the number of characters a user can type into a TextInput component in Flash using ActionScript 3.0

1. Daniel Rodriguez says:

   December 22, 2008 at 12:03 pm

   Hi Peter,
   There is a way to restrict the max number of characters in a dynamic text field?
   I’m loading a text from a data base, but in some cases the text is larger than the Dynamic Text Field and this made the text field scrollable and I don’t want that, I could make the Text Field not selectable, but I want it to be selectable.
   May be is property I’m missing… an scrollable property or something
   Thanks!

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2. Peter deHaan says:

   December 22, 2008 at 1:48 pm

   Daniel Rodriguez,

   As far as I know there isn’t a way to make text selectable, but not cause scrolling in a text field. The maxChars property only applies when a user is typing content in, it doesn’t apply when you set the text using ActionScript.
   You could try trimming the content to a certain number of characters by using the substr() or substring() methods:

   ti.text = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.";
   trace("substring():", ti.text.substring(0, ti.maxChars));
   trace("substr():", ti.text.substr(0, ti.maxChars));

   Peter

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