You can't resize it as far as I know, but whgat you can do is scroll it by
using the .scroll and .maxscroll value of a variable. It's all in the
Actionscript reference, or else get a tutorial at
www.flashkit.com
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"Joel Colombo" <joel@graphicon.nu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> i am loading a variable from a php/text file that i do not know the length
> of.
>
> i need my dynamic text box (lets call it "textbox") to be multiline but
> resizable
> based on the length of the string brought in. is this possible or is there
> another
> way to make this a possiblility
>
> i can not create the box extra large beacuse new boxes are dynamically
> created
> under this. therefore, i need to adjust this textbox height each time the
> variable
> is loaded from the file. and since it is php. different values load each
> time.
>
> basically i have a movie clip with a textbox in it. i need to resize that
> textbox, which
> will in turn resize the clip and i can then get the ._height of the clip
to
> use in placing
> my next copy of the clip under this one.
>
> this basically displays "search results" from a database.
> i can input the variables fine. but it only displays the first line of the
> desc. part due to
> the fact that only one line is set on the actual swf. but the field is set
> to multiline wordwrap
>
> please help me with dynamically resizing a text field. Thank You !
>
> Joel Colombo
> Graphicon Services
>
>
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