/*
 Create a new folder  In that folder create
 and open a new FLash file (ActionScript 3.0).
 Select TimeLine --> Top Layer --> Frame 1
 Select Window --> Actions (F9)
 Copy and paste this snippet then continue

*/
var hi:HelloWorld = new HelloWorld();
addChild(hi);

/*

 Open a new Actionscript file (.as ).
 Copy and paste this snippet.
 <Control> <Enter>
 Save the as file as HelloWorld.as
 into the folder you created.
 Execute with <CNTL><ENTER>

 Observe the output on the movie player

 Make the substitutions you see in comments below please.
*/
package 
{
	import flash.display.*;
	import flash.text.*;
	public class HelloWorld extends Sprite
	{
		public function HelloWorld()
		{
			// Time to do some paragraph level formatting.
			var t:TextField = new TextField();
			t.text = "Hello cold, cruel world.  \nNo matter what I will not be intimidated. \nI will defeat every syntax error that comes my way.  \nI will locate every syntax error.  The compilier will not win.";
 			t.wordWrap = true;
			t.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;


			var alignFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
			alignFormat.align = TextFormatAlign.CENTER;
			t.setTextFormat(alignFormat, 0);

			addChild(t);
		}
	}
}
// From Essential ActionScript by Moock

// Now alignment applies to the next paragraph as indicated by the new line (\n).
// If we wanted to center the second line, we'd use:
//			t.setTextFormat(alignFormat, 27);

// So that we could apply CENTER to the second paragraph.  Counting these is a pain and we 
// often use dynamic text, so it would be hard to "know" where to align the text.  So we
// have to determine it programatically.  The problem is the technique doesn't generalize well.


// By the way, you can also use a beginning and end range but right now that's besides the point.
//			t.setTextFormat(alignFormat, 29, 123);