Comments on: getBounds for TextFields = getBitmapBounds() http://blog.stroep.nl/2009/11/getbitmapbounds/ Just a collection of random works - Mark Knol Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:09:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: luukhttp://blog.stroep.nl/2009/11/getbitmapbounds/comment-page-1/#comment-10174 luuk Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:19:20 +0000 http://blog.stroep.nl/?p=799#comment-10174 Hi Mark, getBounds gets inherited from DisplayObject, so it can be expected it returns the border bounds, the methods wasn't designed for text.Although your solutions seems to produce a fine result, it is kind of overengineered converting the textfield to a bitmapdata object. Have you tried looking into TextLineMetrics? (http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/text/TextLineMetrics.html)That in combination with numLines, getLineText and getCharBounds suffices to get al the info you need to find the exact borders :) Hi Mark, getBounds gets inherited from DisplayObject, so it can be expected it returns the border bounds, the methods wasn’t designed for text.

Although your solutions seems to produce a fine result, it is kind of overengineered converting the textfield to a bitmapdata object. Have you tried looking into TextLineMetrics? (http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/text/TextLineMetrics.html)

That in combination with numLines, getLineText and getCharBounds suffices to get al the info you need to find the exact borders :)

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