Change the Text in Linked TFL on the fly

Question

     I have 3 TFL fields on the stage. They are linked so the text overflow from the first spills into the subsequent fields 2 and 3. I want to change the text dynamically but when I do the overflow text do not "overflow" into the other fields. It is as if they were not linked at all.
For instance, when I call:
textField1.htmlText = "bla bla bla......" 
the first text field displays the text just fine but the "overflow" does not display in textField2 and textField3 eventhough they are linked on the stage and the initial text displays just fine.
Can this be done?
\\Nick

Answer 1

Do you mean TLFTextField in Flash pro? If you are talking about TextField, there is nothing about TLF.
TextFlow can flow through linked containers. You can make it on linked Sprite. TLFTextField is a kind of Sprite. You need not to use TLFTextField to implement such a feature.
Sample code:
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flashx.textLayout.compose.StandardFlowComposer;
    import flashx.textLayout.container.ContainerController;
    import flashx.textLayout.conversion.TextConverter;
    import flashx.textLayout.elements.TextFlow;
    import flashx.textLayout.edit.EditManager;
    import flashx.textLayout.container.ScrollPolicy;
    public class ContainerControllerExample1 extends Sprite
        private const textMarkup:String = "<flow:TextFlow xmlns:flow='http://ns.adobe.com/textLayout/2008' fontSize='8' " +
                "textIndent='10' paragraphSpaceBefore='6' paddingTop='8' paddingLeft='8' paddingRight='8'>" +
            "<flow:p paragraphSpaceBefore='inherit'>" +
                "<flow:span>There are many </flow:span>" +
                "<flow:span fontStyle='italic'>such</flow:span>" +
                "<flow:span> lime-kilns in that tract of country, for the purpose of burning the white" +
                    " marble which composes a large part of the substance of the hills. Some of them, built " +
                    "years ago, and long deserted, with weeds growing in the vacant round of the interior, " +
                    "which is open to the sky, and grass and wild-flowers rooting themselves into the chinks" +
                    "of the stones, look already like relics of antiquity, and may yet be overspread with the" +
                    " lichens of centuries to come. Others, where the lime-burner still feeds his daily and " +
                    "nightlong fire, afford points of interest to the wanderer among the hills, who seats " +
                    "himself on a log of wood or a fragment of marble, to hold a chat with the solitary man. " +
                    "It is a lonesome, and, when the character is inclined to thought, may be an intensely " +
                    "thoughtful occupation; as it proved in the case of Ethan Brand, who had mused to such " +
                    "strange purpose, in days gone by, while the fire in this very kiln was burning.</flow:span>" +
            "</flow:p>" +
            "<flow:p paragraphSpaceBefore='inherit'>" +
                "<flow:span>" +
                    "The man who now watched the fire was of a different order, and troubled himself with no " +
                    "thoughts save the very few that were requisite to his business. At frequent intervals, " +
                    "he flung back the clashing weight of the iron door, and, turning his face from the " +
                    "insufferable glare, thrust in huge logs of oak, or stirred the immense brands with a " +
                    "long pole. Within the furnace were seen the curling and riotous flames, and the burning " +
                    "marble, almost molten with the intensity of heat; while without, the reflection of the " +
                    "fire quivered on the dark intricacy of the surrounding forest, and showed in the " +
                    "foreground a bright and ruddy little picture of the hut, the spring beside its door, the " +
                    "athletic and coal-begrimed figure of the lime-burner, and the halffrightened child, " +
                    "shrinking into the protection of his father's shadow. And when again the iron door was " +
                    "closed, then reappeared the tender light of the half-full moon, which vainly strove to" +
                    "trace out the indistinct shapes of the neighboring mountains; and, in the upper sky, " +
                    "there was a flitting congregation of clouds, still faintly tinged with the rosy sunset, " +
                    "though thus far down into the valley the sunshine had vanished long and long ago.</flow:span>" +
            "</flow:p>" +
        "</flow:TextFlow>";
        public function ContainerControllerExample1()
            // create the TextFlow, containers, and container controllers
            var textFlow:TextFlow;
            var container:Sprite = new Sprite();
            var container2:Sprite = new Sprite();
            var controllerOne:ContainerController = new ContainerController(container, 200, 210);
            var controllerTwo:ContainerController = new ContainerController(container2, 200, 220);
            // import the text flow from markup using TextConverter and assign a StandardFlowComposer
            textFlow = TextConverter.importToFlow(textMarkup, TextConverter.TEXT_LAYOUT_FORMAT);
            textFlow.flowComposer = new StandardFlowComposer();
            addChild(container);
            addChild(container2);
            container.x = 25;
            container.y = 100;
            container2.x = 280;
            container2.y = 100;   
            // add the controllers to the text flow and update them to display the text
            textFlow.flowComposer.addController(controllerOne);
            textFlow.flowComposer.addController(controllerTwo);
            textFlow.flowComposer.updateAllControllers();
            textFlow.interactionManager = new EditManager();
            //controllerTwo.verticalScrollPolicy = ScrollPolicy.ON;