Chapter 17 Example 3

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package {
  import flash.display.Sprite;
  import flash.events.MouseEvent;
  import flash.text.TextField;
  import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
  
  public class ch17ex3 extends Sprite {
    protected const TEXT:String =  "Ernest Rutherford, (1871– 1937) was a New Zealand-born chemist and physicist who fathered nuclear physics.";
    
    public function ch17ex3() {
      var singlelinetf:TextField = newTF();
      singlelinetf.multiline = false;
      
      var multilinetf:TextField = newTF();
      multilinetf.multiline = true;
      multilinetf.wordWrap = false;
      
      var wraptf:TextField = newTF();
      wraptf.multiline = true;
      wraptf.wordWrap = true;
    }
    
    protected function newTF():TextField {
      var tf:TextField = new TextField();
      tf.border = true;
      tf.width = 300;
      tf.height = 40;
      tf.text = TEXT;
      tf.y = 60 * numChildren;
      tf.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);
      addChild(tf);
      return tf;
    }
    
    protected function onClick(event:MouseEvent):void {
      var tf:TextField = TextField(event.target);
      tf.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
    }
  }
}