UNDERLINE THE TEXT in MX?

programming flash
1

I know this may be sound stupid, but how do you underline the text. It seems like there is no such option there…or is there? and where?

2

Looks like you’re going to have to script it, HTI.

3

change ur text field to dynamic text and give it an instance name and use below code:

urTextFormat = new TextFormat();
urTextFormat.underline = true;
instance_name.setTextFormat(urTextFormat);

go to help in flash mx for more detail on TextFormat, i also just learnt from there.

4

that will underline ALL the text though.

The best way is to make a dynamic textbox and make it HTML enabled so you can use HTML underline tags on the word you want.

5

yeah, that’s right!! i learnt another new things!!
thanx for ur advice!!

6

No problem, but beware, HTML enabled text only works if the text is dynamically loaded from an external text file or inputted through Actionscript.

7 
this.createTextField("myText",-1,0,0,300,20);
myText.html=true;
myHTML="Hey Lost, <u>what's on your mind?</u>";
myText.htmlText=myHTML;
8

Yeah, perhaps I should have added that part:)

Sorry.