Alright. So I’ve got two text fields each in their own movie clips right next to each other. They are both right-justified and I want them to appear as if they’re typing into place starting from the right side.
SO, when I apply autoSize=“right” to the textfield on the right, the textfield disappears (I assume because since there’s no text in it yet, it resizes to 0). I would assume however, that as text is “typed” into it, it woudl then expand to fit. However that is not the case. It remains invisible until I zoom in. I don’t understand why, but for whatever reason that makes the text viewable again…
The reason I need to field to resize is that based on the length of that textfield I need the second textfield to align its right edge with the left edge of the first text field.
I have tried lots of different things and it’s driving me crazy. I thought to set the autosize to “right” and then make the textfields invisible and load all the font (which I then assumed would resize the textfield to the right length) then switch the autosize back to null and then empty the text field and then bring back the alpha to 100, and then type out the text… But it doesn’t resize! BAH!
When does autosize resize the text field? I thought it was when the texfield changed, but that is not the case… PLEASE!!! Someone help me, I’m going nuts over here!
Here’s a .fla
