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How do you change the background color of text?

Forum|Forum|16 years ago
September 25, 2009
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According to the language reference, the CharacterFormat class has no backgroundColor property. Can this be right? I can't believe they omitted such a basic thing. There must be some other way to change the background color of a span of text, but how?

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ab1301Author

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I found this highlighting example for TLF, but I can't find the source code:

http://www.matthewfabb.com/examples/tlf/highlight_adornment.html

Does anyone know where the source code for this is?

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By changing the format of TextFlow, you're able to change the background color. Here is an example. Hope it helps.

var

format:TextLayoutFormat = new TextLayoutFormat();

format.backgroundColor = 0x2200ff;

var textFlow:TextFlow = TextConverter.importToFlow(Markup, TextConverter.TEXT_LAYOUT_FORMAT);

textFlow.flowComposer =

new StandardFlowComposer();

var editManager:IEditManager = new EditManager();

textFlow.interactionManager = editManager;

editManager.applyContainerFormat(format);

editManager.applyFormatToElement(editManager.textFlow,format);

ab1301Author

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1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: TextLayoutFormat.