Rotating dynamic text?

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Hi- I’m new to this so probably missing something obvious, apologies. Kirupa taught me all I know…

Ok- so I’m trying to make a dynamic text field which is rotated to 45 degrees.

I found the livedocs explanation

(http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=Flash_MX_2004&file=00001808.html)

and I’ve tried to make it work, but I cannot.

My code is

stop();
var my_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
my_fmt.font = “verd”;
this.createTextField(“my_txt”, this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 10, 160, 120);
my_txt.wordWrap = true;
my_txt.embedFonts = true;
my_txt.text = “Hello world”;
my_txt.setTextFormat(my_fmt);
my_txt._rotation = 45;

where ‘verd’ is a font symbol in my library.

Is there a linkage stage I’m missing?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

cheers!

N