Inconsistent textfield results when exporting flash 7 and 6

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I’m new to flash and have started with MX 2004. As a result, I’m not familiar with behavior of certain items when exporting to Flash 6, so please bear with me if there are simple questions (I haven’t found them in past posts though).

Basically, I can’t get text to be flush on the left in flash 6 when using wordWrap = true. The text wordwraps properly, but it doesn’t handle whitespace properly which results in uneven left justification since it does not remove leading whitespace from each new line it automatically creates. Exporting to flash 7 results in flush alignment on the left as expected. I’ve only noticed this on a few sites that use flash 6 and I’m wondering how to get around this problem. condenseWhite does not affect this issue either.

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After messing around with multiple things, I figured out a work around. If you set the width of the textfield to 0 before assigning the text content of the textfield, and then reset it to it’s original size after the text property is defined, the text is aligned properly. This was working when using a non-embedded font. I’m not sure how to get the text to be flush on the left when exporting to flash 6 with embedded fonts.