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In ActionScript 3, when you change the value of a TextField, why do you lose the TextFormat associated with the TextField?

  • I set a new value to my TextField and the TextFormat is lost. I need to reset it after changing the value. Is this normal?

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    It's also not too hard to just grab the TextFormat in use and reapply it after you update the text: (assuming that myTextField is your text field in use): var myTextFormat:TextFormat = myTextField.getTextFormat(); // get original text formatting myTextField.text = myValue; // apply new text myTextField.setTextFormat(myTextFormat); // re-apply the original text formatting

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Here's another workaround: assign the defaultTextFormat value for the TextField. Note that the defaultTextFormat won't come into effect before the next assignment of the TextField.text value.

Yingnan Song

This is completely normal and is one of the quirks of AS3.  I ran into a problem of the text in the field completely disappearing when rotated.  As others suggested, save the textformat, and then reapply it.

Toan Tran

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