AS textField help

• skelly_b

  why doesn't this work? Help please I have been hitting my head against the wall for hours now.

  drawTextBox (_root, "testText", 1, 20, 100, 150, 50, "IT WORKS!", 20, true, "0x777777", "left");

  function drawTextBox (parent, boxName, dep, x, y, w, h, txt, si, bo, col, al){
  parent.createTextField(boxName, dep, x, y, w, h);

  //textFormat properties
  var tf = new TextFormat();
  tf.align = al;
  tf.bold = bo;
  tf.color = col;
  tf.font = "Futura";
  tf.size = si;

  //textField properties
  parent[boxName].multiline = true;
  parent[boxName].wordWrap = true;
  parent[boxName].selectable = false;
  parent[boxName].embedFonts = true;
  parent[boxName].text = txt;
  parent[boxName].setTextFormat(tf...
  }

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• skelly_b0

  To clarify I need a function that creates a dynamic textField. Eventually this will frop into a for loop. If put all the create the text in the loop it works without a problem. With this function I get nothing.

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