How many characters in my text Field - In my scrollingText

May 8th, 2008, 1:16 pm

Hi,

I'm trying to learn out how to find how many characters are in a text field and then make an if statement out of it.

I looked up TextField.textWidth and its says indicates the width of the text.
Well I'm not sure if that's what I want.

Basically I want to use it for finding out how many characters in my text field so that I can stop a scrolling text.

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1. function resetPosition() {
2.     if (trackInfo._width>=15) {
3.         if (_root.firstload == true) {
4.             trackInfo._x = 50;
5.             _root.firstload = false;
6.         }
7.     } else {
8.         trackInfo._x = 112-(trackInfo._width/2);
9.     }
10. }
11.  
12. this.onEnterFrame = function() {
13.     if (this.trackInfo._width>=15) {
14.         if ((this.trackInfo._x+this.trackInfo._width)<0) {
15.             this.trackInfo._x = 145;
16.         } else {
17.             this.trackInfo._x--;
18.         }
19.     }
20. };

What would be the right way of going about finding out how many characters in the textField?
Thanks

May 8th, 2008, 11:30 pm

or simply...

How do I find out or read, how many character in my text field?

Which is brought in byXML?