That's pretty interesting! I want to find ways to animate text, and will play with this code...ty
------------------------------ David Pariente RIA consultor ------------------------------ El 08/01/2010, a las 22:48, Tibor Ballai <[email protected]> escribió: Hi, You can extend the Text component and change its textField property's text format. var normal:TextFormat=new TextFormat(); var bold:TextFormat=new TextFormat(); normal.bold=false; bold.bold=true; //set the first 5 characters to bold this.textField.setTextFormat(bold, 0, 5); //set the next 5 chars to normal this.textField.setTextFormat(normal, 5, 10); Tibor. www.tiborballai.com cvsikh wrote: Hi, I was curious to know if it is possible to have both bold and normal text in a text component? I know this can be achieved using htmltext however I am not interested in using that since you cannot pass dynamic fields to it.

