A useful news for all of us as Flash devs, Now that we are talking about TextField thought to let you know about a class that is so powerful and is extended from the Adobe TextField class itself.

It’s named TextArea which allows you every possible tags even your own custom tag and has much more abilities too.

Check out http://doitflash.com/ for more information.
It not only allows you to load different SWF files by calling different tags in line of your text but also you have much more control over your Text blocks and its contents… such as calling your custom functions right from your text blocks and passing multiple and different arguments through them; loading talking avatars, video players, buttons, slideshows and more… by calling their own tags and having full interaction between all of the loaded SWF modules and your text block. Check out the site for more information, downloading the platform is also free of charge :)

Scrolling is a problem, that did not occur to till now.

Now that you’ve mentioned it, I looked through my library and found this function, that cuts away overlapping stuff (by masking the sprite). I wrote it for another project, but you could adjust it to make a scrollable container (thus, placing the Listfield in the masked container but holding a reference to it, maybe the Listfield itself could be extened):

/**
* Cuts off (masks) the given image at the given proportions.
*
* Thus, the image is not scaled, overlapping stuff get’s cut away.
*
* @param the Display Object to cut
* @param its width
* @param its height
* @param the image gets centered in the mask
* @return Sprite container with the cutted disObj inside.
*/
public static function cutOff(disObj:DisplayObject, cutWidth:Number, cutHeight:Number, center:Boolean=false):Sprite {
var theMask:Sprite = new Sprite();
theMask.graphics.beginFill(0xFFFFFF);
theMask.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, cutWidth, cutHeight);

var container:Sprite = new Sprite();

container.addChild(theMask);
container.addChild(disObj);

if(center) {
if(disObj.width > cutWidth) {
disObj.x = ((disObj.width – cutWidth) / 2) * -1;
}
if(disObj.height > cutHeight) {
disObj.y = ((disObj.height – cutHeight) / 2) * -1;
}
}

disObj.mask = theMask;

return container;
}

(Hope this is understandable in the comments).

What I didn’t like about a solution like that is that you don’t have just text anymore … so what’s happening if you have multiline list elements or if you scroll the text? Don’t take me wrong, I’m just curious how you solved those issues…

I’d be glad if you’d visit me :)

http://digitale-avantgarde.com/listenfelder-icons/

the problem is, that I have to rename the font’s, because your modified fonts are all the arial. Why? To use them in the lib, I have to install them on my machine, and then windows says: Arial is already installed…
So I have to use a font-editor to rename them… can you suggest a good one?

Thank you very much!

Cheers,
DBird

what am I doing wrong if just a gray stage appears?
I have created a blank FLA-File just with StyleBulletPoint as the document-class and saved it the same dir as the as-file.

Cheers,
DBird

It seems only that when the list text goes to two lines the ‘non printing char’ leaves a space.

http://www.nyls.nl/grabs/e565a24a8e2b59011e032c19541cc5d0.png

You have had any problem with that ?