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Text object

text.useDeviceFonts

Availability
Flash MX 2004.

Usage

text.useDeviceFonts

Description
Property; a Boolean value. A value of

true

causes Flash to draw text using device fonts.

Example
The following example causes Flash to use device fonts when drawing text:

fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].useDeviceFonts = true;

text.variableName

Availability
Flash MX 2004.

Usage

text.variableName

Description
Property; a string that contains the name of the variable associated with the Text object. This property works only with
dynamic or input text; it generates a warning if used with other text types.

This property is supported only in ActionScript 1.0 and ActionScript 2.0.

Example
The following example sets the variable name of the selected text box to

firstName

:

fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].variableName = "firstName";