When text loaded is bigger than textbox width in the stage ?

greetings,

I’m confused with textfield width and textWidth. I need to know when the text i’m loading via flashvar is bigger than the textbox width in the stage, and then start an action. How can i do that ?

exemple http://www.crossc-mag.com/text.jpg

I’ve used text.lenght but the problem is that character like A & W doesn’t have the same size… Any help ?

Thanks.

Look into TextLineMetrics for detailed text measurement:

Tean said
Look into TextLineMetrics for detailed text measurement: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/text/TextLineMetrics.html

Ok thanks, look like its harder than i expected ! Can you help me with this function on my project ? $$

Sure, send me an email through contact form with the details.

if (textfield.textWidth > textfield.width) doAction();

”.length” is for the number of characters in the textfield… nothing to do with it’s size…

.textWidth is the width of the text in the field

.width is the width of the field