public class @ax-actionscript-book-NewsLayout-com-example-programmingas3-newslayout-FormattedTextField extends flash.text.TextField
          {
                  private var _format:TextFormat;
                  
                  public var preferredWidth:Number = 300;
                  public var preferredHeight:Number = 100;
                  
                  public function @ax-actionscript-book-NewsLayout-com-example-programmingas3-newslayout-FormattedTextField(tf:TextFormat = null) 
                  {
                          super();
                          
                          this.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.NONE;
                          this.wordWrap = true;
  
                          if (tf != null)
                          {
                                  _format = tf;
                          }
                          else
                          {
                                  _format = getDefaultTextFormat();
                          }
                          
                          //this.setStyle(_format);
                  }
                  
                  private function getDefaultTextFormat():TextFormat 
                  {
                          var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
                          format.font = "Verdana";
                          format.size = 10;
                          format.bold = false;
                          format.leading = 0;
                          return format;
                  }
                                  
                  public function changeFace(faceName:String="Verdana"):void
                  {
                          if (faceName != null)
                          {
                                  this._format.font = faceName;
                                  this.setTextFormat(this._format);
                          }
                  }
  
                  public function changeSize(size:uint=12):void
                  {
                          if (size > 5)
                          {
                                  this._format.size = size;
                                  this.setTextFormat(this._format);
                          }
                  }
  
                  public function changeBold(isBold:Boolean = false):void
                  {
                          //this.setStyle("fontWeight", isBold ? "bold" : "normal");
                          this._format.bold = isBold;
                          this.setTextFormat(this._format);
                  }
                  
                  public function changeItalic(isItalic:Boolean = false):void
                  {
                          //this.setStyle("fontStyle", isItalic ? flash.text.FontStyle.ITALIC : flash.text.FontStyle.REGULAR );
                          this._format.italic = isItalic;
                          this.setTextFormat(this._format);
                  }
  
                  public function changeNormal(isNormal:Boolean = false):void
                  {
                          this._format.italic = false;
                          this._format.bold = false;
                          this.setTextFormat(this._format);
                  }
                                  
                  public function changeSpacing(spacing:int=1):void
                  {
                          if (spacing > -10 && spacing < 100)
                          {
                                  this._format.letterSpacing = spacing;
                                  this.setTextFormat(this._format);
                          }
                  }
                  
                  public function changeLeading(leading:int=0):void
                  {
                          if (leading > -100 && leading < 100)
                          {
                                  this._format.leading = leading;
                                  this.setTextFormat(this._format);
                          }
                  }
  
                  public function changeAlign(align:String = "left"):void
                  {
                          if (align == TextFormatAlign.LEFT || align == TextFormatAlign.RIGHT ||
                                  align == TextFormatAlign.JUSTIFY || align == TextFormatAlign.CENTER)
                          {
                                  this._format.align = align;
                                  this.setTextFormat(this._format);
                          }
                  }
          }
  }