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July 6, 2006
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Can a movie clip be added to a textarea component?

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I have a movie clip (content_mc) that contains a textarea component. I have attached a movie clip to to content_mc and manipulated it to where I want it (it is not fancy, just an object that I colorize and size based on some parameters). I want to use this same object in my textarea component next to the text that I will be displaying -- is it possible to do this? And if so, how? I will most likely have multiple instances of the movie clip (each possibly a different color and sized differently) in my textarea, so I will need to be able to add all of them, as they have been modified, to my textarea component.

Thanks in advance for any help and/or advice.
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Inspiring
July 8, 2006
I have done it with TextFields and the documentation also indicates TextArea
component.
You might find positioning less than precise.
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/00001472.html
The ugly details:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/00001474.html




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>I have a movie clip (content_mc) that contains a textarea component. I
>have
> attached a movie clip to to content_mc and manipulated it to where I want
> it
> (it is not fancy, just an object that I colorize and size based on some
> parameters). I want to use this same object in my textarea component next
> to
> the text that I will be displaying -- is it possible to do this? And if
> so,
> how? I will most likely have multiple instances of the movie clip (each
> possibly a different color and sized differently) in my textarea, so I
> will
> need to be able to add all of them, as they have been modified, to my
> textarea
> component.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help and/or advice.
>