"Line Spacing" vs. leading

How does "Line Spacing" in static or dynamic text fields
(explicitliy set in the "Formatting Options" window) compare w/
"leading" when creating a text field w/ AS?
Is a "Line Spacing" setting of 10 the same as my_fmt.leading
= 10;?
In a Flash 7 file I'm trying to get the spacing between lines
in an AS-created text field to be closer than default, but it seems
that leading can be a positive value. But if a similar static field
looks good w/ Line Spacing set at 0, why is there no equivalent w/
leading?

To clarify... If the query row is omitted from the
indexed/array notation, then isValid() and <cfparam />
produce different results.
In the attached code example below, the query row was omitted
intentionally to illustrate.
Two possible solutions are:
1) Make isValid() throw an error (so that they both throw an
error)
2) Make <cfparam /> not throw an error (so that they
both do not throw an error)
I feel the behavior should be consistent. Does anyone feel
otherwise? If the behavior should be consistent, then which
solution, or other solution, is preferred?
Let's discuss!
Thanks,
-Aaron
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When using non-zero line spacing, the autoSize property is not functioning as expected, causing text fields to scroll that shouldn't. Also, when using device fonts, the sizes of the TextFields are wrong in the Flash IDE.
I have a TextField whose height is supposed to be dynamic, depending the width of the TextField. wordWrap is true, the text is left aligned, and the autoSize value is flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT.
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http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?288955-Disabling-textfield-scrolling   Bug is caused by using a line height ("line spacing" in Flash) larger than zero, for example 1.0pt. It looks like when I reduce the line spacing of the text field to zero, the issue goes away. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with how autoSize is calculating the required height of the text (i.e. it is exactly textHeight + 4 pixel gutter, and drawing the rectangle (2,2,textWidth,textHeight) aligns visually with the text), so it must have to do with how the TextField is deciding whether it needs to scroll or not, and that separate calculation is being thrown off by the non-zero line spacing. The additional non-zero spacing at the end of the last line could be making the TextField think it needs to scroll, even though it's hight is sufficient at "textHeight + 4". Apparently the problem manifests when using a non-zero leading value as well.
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//body is TextField
var tlm:TextLineMetrics = body.getLineMetrics(body.numLines - 1);
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No, lol. Luckly, I replace most of my TextFields on the display list with my subclass TextFieldEx. I just call a clone method that accepts a TextField and returns a TextFieldEx with identical properties.
I corrected the problem via modifying the subclass to behave differently when autoSize is not NONE and wordWrap is true. Under those conditions, the maxScrollV and scrollV property values are fixed at 1, and the class listens for its own SCROLL event and sets scrollV to 1 when it occurs. That allows me to leave everything else alone, including text selection, and use whatever line spacing I want.
The modification seems to work fine so far.
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Hi everyone.
I am trying to make a bulleted list, and I have 5 elements.
Some require one line, while others require two lines. But the
thing is, I want the leading to be lets say 20pt between items. But
since some of the items require two lines, i want those items to
have their line spacing closer so they can seem that they are part
of the same bullet point. Is there any way I can do this? Is it
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Thanks
-Ce

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</ul>
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www.barkingweb.com

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Message was edited by: Daniel Markus

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Me: Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro, Windows Vista
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I work in a doctors' clinic, and we use phone message sheets to document conversations between the patients/us/nurses/doctors, and I scanned the form and made it into a fillable PDF for our secretaries to fill out more quickly. The "message" area has pre-printed lines on it, and the multi-line text field I placed there needs to match up to the lines. I used the Rich Text Formatting options to set it to "Exactly 24 Points," but I can't get it to KEEP the formatting permanently. The only way I could get it to save the formatting in that field was to put a space in it and then save it, and then give that to the 2 phone secretaries. It works perfectly the first time, but instead of just closing/re-opening the file to start a new message, one of the secretaries highlights everything in the "message" field and deletes it... which deletes the line spacing formatting. I've told her
b numerous
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b PERMANENTLY
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Hi Margaret,
Does this work for you?
And 0.6
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Regards,
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