Manipulate input text size to two different sizes in one field

If you set the .htmlText member of the text field instead of the .text member, you can put an HTML string in there.  You should then be able to use regular html formatting.

A simple example:


Of course, if you're making substrings, just add those in:

You can use this to set color, font size, or just about anything else.  Hope this helps!

Basically you just need to use the autoSize on a text field in actionscript if I understand your problem correctly.

Var myText:TextField  = new TextField();

myText.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;

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@Carnou - I like the idea of using htmlText, but now I'm running into an issue with my substr... it keeps throwing errors (coercion and undefined method substr). Can you take a look and see what I'm doing wrong?

And... @BlakeRogers  - what does AutoSize do? I don't understand how that would work being that it doesn't necessarily know which characters to apply the size to.

 inputTextTest.zip

Is there a definite number of characters that will have a different size every time?

For instance the string "Happy" has 5 characters and even if the string grows we want the first 2 characters "HA" to be in a bigger font.

Yes...
if there are 5 chars then the first two will be larger than the last three.
25 big 000 small. If there are four chars, then for 2500 the 2 is big and the 500 is small.
if there are only three chars, then all three are small.

This is the best way that I know to do this... You should be able to cut and past this into an actions layer of an fla. After this you would just need to concat the strings. Let me know if you need help with that.

var str:String = "Happy Monday";

//trace(str.slice(0,5));
/*do the above to make sure that you get the amount you want. Don't forget double index*/

var strModify:String = str.slice(0,5);
var strLeftOvers:String = str.slice(6, str.length);

//trace(strModify);
//trace(strLeftOvers);

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~Blake
http://www.onyxtekwebdesign.com

The above would allow you to change the size independently, but mash them together for like a texfield output.

Thanks!
I was going in circles swapping out variables trying to find what was wrong. Thanks for taking a look at that and thanks for the htmlText solution, it's exactly what I wanted!