flash.text - Summary Adobe® Flex® 4 Language Reference (Flex 4)

The flash.text package contains classes for working with text fields, text formatting, text metrics, style sheets, and layout. Advanced anti-aliasing is available in Flash Player 8 and later through the flash.text.TextFormat and flash.text.TextRenderer classes.

Classes

	Class	Description
	AntiAliasType	The AntiAliasType class provides values for anti-aliasing in the flash.text.TextField class.
	CSMSettings	The CSMSettings class contains properties for use with the TextRenderer.setAdvancedAntiAliasingTable() method to provide continuous stroke modulation (CSM).
	Font	The Font class is used to manage embedded fonts in SWF files.
	FontStyle	The FontStyle class provides values for the TextRenderer class.
	FontType	The FontType class contains the enumerated constants "embedded" and "device" for the fontType property of the Font class.
	GridFitType	The GridFitType class defines values for grid fitting in the TextField class.
	StaticText	This class represents StaticText objects on the display list.
	StyleSheet	The StyleSheet class lets you create a StyleSheet object that contains text formatting rules for font size, color, and other styles.
	TextColorType	The TextColorType class provides color values for the flash.text.TextRenderer class.
	TextDisplayMode	The TextDisplayMode class contains values that control the subpixel anti-aliasing of the advanced anti-aliasing system.
	TextExtent	The TextExtent class contains information about the extents of some text in a text field.
	TextField	The TextField class is used to create display objects for text display and input.
	TextFieldAutoSize	The TextFieldAutoSize class is an enumeration of constant values used in setting the autoSize property of the TextField class.
	TextFieldType	The TextFieldType class is an enumeration of constant values used in setting the type property of the TextField class.
	TextFormat	The TextFormat class represents character formatting information.
	TextFormatAlign	The TextFormatAlign class provides values for text alignment in the TextFormat class.
	TextLineMetrics	The TextLineMetrics class contains information about the text position and measurements of a line of text within a text field.
	TextRenderer	The TextRenderer class provides functionality for the advanced anti-aliasing capability of embedded fonts.
	TextSnapshot	TextSnapshot objects let you work with static text in a movie clip.