Want to print content of textfield.

Question

I want to print the content of text field using a button. I know how to print a movie clip. If I transform the text field into a movie clip, I cannot type anything in it, and then I will be printing an empty textfield.. Help, hint ? thank you.

Answer 1

there should be no problem converting your textfield to a movieclip and then typing into it.  you're not really changing it to a movieclip, you'll just be adding it to the movieclip's timeline.
but your textfield already must be in a displayobjectcontainer and so can be added to your printjob.  for example, if your textfield (eg, tf) is on the in-scope timeline, you can use:
var pj:PrintJob = new PrintJob();
b.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,f);
function f(e:MouseEvent):void {
    if (pj.start()) {
        try {
            pj.addPage(this,new Rectangle(tf.x,tf.y,tf.width,tf.height));
        } catch (e:Error) {
            // handle error
        pj.send();