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January 28th, 2004

TextSnapshot Object

Yesterday, i looked at getTextSnapshot() method of MovieClip.

MovieClip.getTextSnapshot() returns a TextSnapshot object which represent the entire static text in a movieclip, static text? yeah its static text.

According to AS Dictionary,

TextSnapshot objects let you work with static text in a movie clip. You can use them, for example, to lay out text with greater precision than that allowed by dynamic text, but still access the text in a read-only way.

TextSnapshot object has methods to perform different operations to find text or highlight some selection.

Though i do not have any specific usage right now, but i can see it as handy feature while providing searching facility in a single large document (MovieClip) with static text or it can be used in while developing learning content.

Can you guys think of any example?

Abdul Qabiz