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Easy way to Apply Styles to Text fields in Actionscript 2

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  1. ///////put this somewhere with your other functions//////
  2. TextField.prototype.applyStyles=function(styles){
  3. 	fmt = new TextFormat();
  4. 	for (var key:String in styles){
  5. 		fmt[key]=styles[key];
  6. 	}
  7. 	this.setTextFormat(fmt);
  8. }
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  12. ////////pass in an object with all the styles you want
  13. myTextField.applyStyles({color:"0xFFFFFF",letterSpacing:-2,bold:true,size:18});
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  22. /* here's some other styles (flash8)
  23.  
  24. myTextField2.applyStyles({
  25. align:"center",
  26. blockIndent:10, //indents the text block 10pt
  27. bullet:true;
  28. font:"Gill Sans",
  29. indent:"3", //indents first character 3pt
  30. italic:true,
  31. kerning:true, //kerning enabled
  32. leading:15, //15 pixels (line spacing)
  33. leftMargin: 10, //10 point left margin
  34. leftMargin: 10, //10 point right margin
  35. underline:true,
  36. color:"0xFFFFFF",
  37. letterSpacing:-2,
  38. bold:true,
  39. size:18
  40. });
  41.  
  42. */

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