CHanging text state using a button

Hello friends,

I know that in javascript we can use

Document.execCommand("xxx")

Where xxx is the command you want to execute. For example, to set selected text to be bold, you would replace xxx with Bold. To set selected text to italic, replace xxx with Italic.

I want to know how can I do the same thing in flash? I want to make a button by pressing which the text property is changed in a text field and is posted in the same state in the message window.

Thank you.

not sure about what you're asking about in that last part, but...

you need to give your text box an instance name and then you can have your button affect that instance name...

here's a whole bunch of formatting stuff you can use...
AS Dictionary

hope that helps..

I am making an instant messaging window. Right now only send button is functioning and when I click it, the text from _Message instance(Which has Input Text Type) is posted to _display instance(Which had dynamic Text type) field.

What I want to do is to give user an option so that they can change their text to bold state by clicking a button as is done in most of the instant messaging programs.

Thank you

http://actionscript-toolbox.com/flashmx_createtext.php