Flash Tutorial - ActionScript 3.0 Textfield Code sample

Here is an ActionScript 3.0 code sample to to add a TextField. To start you will need to create a linkage to the desired font in the Flash IDE library. In this case the font I chose was Arial.

package
{
  import flash.display.Sprite;
  import flash.text.Textfield;
  import flash.text.TextFormat;

  public class TextfieldExample extends Sprite
  {
    private var myTextfield:TextField;

    public function TextfieldExample(myString:String)
    {
      myTextfield = addTextfield(myString);
      this.addChild(myTextfield);
    }

    private function addTextfield(myText:String):TextField
    {
      var myTextFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
      myTextFormat.font = "Arial";
      myTextFormat.size = 11;
      myTextFormat.color = "0x000000";

      var myTextField:TextField = new TextField();
      myTextField.selectable = false;
      myTextField.mouseEnabled = false;
      myTextField.embedFonts = true;
      myTextField.autoSize = "left";
      myTextField.wordWrap = false;
      myTextField.multiline = false;
      myTextField.defaultTextFormat = myTextFormat;

      return myTextField;
    }
  }
}