Flash CS3 ComboBox setStyle() for Text

I’ve been delving into Flash’s CS3 components and discovered that the typical Actionscript 3.0 setStyle() method doesn’t work with the ComboBox. The workaround is to set the styles for components within the ComboBox. Here’s an example:


var tf:TextFormat = new TextFormat();

tf.color = 0xFFFFFF;

myComboBox.textField.setStyle("textFormat",tf);
myComboBox.dropdown.setRendererStyle("textFormat", tf);

// specify "disabledTextFormat" to overwrite default
myComboBox.textField.setStyle("disabledTextFormat", tf);

Happy coding!