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Post 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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function resetPosition() {
    if (trackInfo._width>=15) {
        if (_root.firstload == true) {
            trackInfo._x = 50;
            _root.firstload = false;
        }
    } else {
        trackInfo._x = 112-(trackInfo._width/2);
    }
}

this.onEnterFrame = function() {
    if (this.trackInfo._width>=15) {
        if ((this.trackInfo._x+this.trackInfo._width)<0) {
            this.trackInfo._x = 145;
        } else {
            this.trackInfo._x--;
        }
    }
};
  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. }
  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?
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Post May 8th, 2008, 1:16 pm

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Post May 8th, 2008, 11:30 pm

or simply...

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

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