Okay, but in the simple example, you are using it for both:
Okay, but formatter should not be treated as a property of _selectedBox.
_selectedBox has no property named formatter.
This is the offending line:
if (_selectedBox.formatter.italic == false)
You already have set formatter to the value of _selectedBox.getTextFormat();
Thus your conditional should read:
if (formatter.italic == false)
To simplify it to keeping formatter separate from the current format, let's
rewrite:
var currentFormat:TextFormat = _selectedBox.getTextFormat();
var formatter:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
if (currentFormat.italic == false)
{
formatter.italic = true;
}
else
{
formatter.italic = false;
}
_selectedBox.setTextFormat(formatter);
-jonathan
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Stuart (FunkDaWeb) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> formatter is a blank variable and has nothing to do with reading the text
> propperties its used for setting them! I need to figure out how to tell if a
> text field is set to italic or not! once i can do this i can fix the if
> statement!
>
> do you have any idea how to do this?
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> FUI - New code is this....
>
> var formatter:TextFormat = _selectedBox.getTextFormat();
>
> if (_selectedBox.formatter.italic == false)
> {
> formatter.italic = true;
> }
> else
> {
> formatter.italic = false;
> }
>
> _selectedBox.setTextFormat(formatter);
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: jonathan howe
> To: Flash Coders List
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 5:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Reading properties of a textbox [AS3]
>
>
> Hi, Stuart,
>
> Based on the error message sounds like maybe you are trying to access
> _selectedBox.formatter or something else invalid. Can you repaste your
> new
> code after the change?
>
> -jonathan
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Stuart (FunkDaWeb) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> wrote:
>
> > thanks Jonathan for some reason i get this error when i change to your
> > code...
> >
> > ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property formatter not found on
> > flash.text.TextField and there is no default value.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: jonathan howe
> > To: Flash Coders List
> > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 4:04 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Reading properties of a textbox [AS3]
> >
> >
> > var formatter:TextFormat = _selectedBox.getTextFormat();
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Stuart (FunkDaWeb) <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all im tring to write a button that changes the format of a
> textbox
> > > from normal to italic and back again. I have written the below code
> but
> > i
> > > cannot seam to get it to work!
> > >
> > > var formatter:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
> > >
> > > if (formatter.italic == false)
> > > {
> > > formatter.italic = true;
> > > }
> > > else
> > > {
> > > formatter.italic = false;
> > > }
> > >
> > > _selectedBox.setTextFormat(formatter);
> > >
> > > So my question is how do i read the properties of a textbox in order
> to
> > > create an if statment to change the properties?
> > >
> > > SM
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