I've finally got XML information coming into my text field. Only problem now is that there for every line break in the text, Flash reads it as two line breaks, for example:
XML:
Line 1
Line 2
Flash:
Line 1
Line 2
I found that you can just use the <br> tag in the original text or if I'm using actionscript to input the text I can use or but what if I'm using text generated by a CMS which my client needs to be able to use?
I basically want to be able to put double spaces between my paragraphs.
This is how my text field is set [AS]set (myTextField, "A bunch of text here");[/AS]
Is there any way to make line breaks when you load text into a dynamic text box, other than using html? And if not, could someone give me an example of how to do it using html?
View 12 RepliesIs it possible to load a text file using line breaks as a delimeter rather than having a &var= at the beginning of each line? Like by a for instance? I have a text file with about 1000 lines that I need to load/display.
View 5 RepliesI'm attempting to add line breaks after the code I've included below. I know that I need to add a " " after the line of text, but I haven't had any success.
textField.appendText(""+ bldg.S11[i].Title.text())textField.appendText("Square Footage: "+ bldg.S11[i].SF.text())textField.appendText("Tenant: "+ bldg.S11[i].Tenant.text())textField.appendText("Status: "+ bldg.S11[i].Status.text())
At the moment, everything is output to stage in one big clump. But I can't figure how to make each text field display on separate lines. Messing with the y value doesn't seem to do the trick nor do line breaks in the XML.
Code:
var dtxt:TextField;
for (var i:uint = 0; i < occID.length(); i++) {
dtxt = new TextField();
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The purpose of this code is to create a dynamic textfield or a movieclip with values from an XML file to be added to stage as options in a drop down menu. Putting them in a text field or movie clip would allow me apply mouse events, etc. I'm a novice coder and so I'm just trying to feel out the best way I can handle it at the moment!
I have a scroller window in my Flash file which uses a Dynamic string variable fed by a text.html file containing my variable &about_readmore_txt2 After running some tests with the text.html file, I noticed that after a certain number of line breaks (either entered by a "RETURN" or a <br />) the final text rendered when the Flash is played becomes erratic. It only displays a portion of the text in the middle of the scrolling window.The tests have been run using both options : Rendered as html and not. My tests also shows that this behavior is line breaks related (I shrank the content of the variable down to a point where everything comes back to normal and then, if I add another line break, it starts behaving erraticly again
View 1 Repliesi need to split a large text file into an array at line breaks so one array element = one line.i have tried the using "" in both match() and in RegExp but it doesnt work.i had the g and m flags on. tried the $ sign too.
View 8 RepliesI have a input textfield 200x150 where customers can write their address.
Problem:
Address is written like:
Avenida de presidente
Calle no 2
How can the line break be recognized in the Text field, so the text arrives in the format as written? The text field also has a >restrict<, it does not allow
I'm trying to split my text at the line breaks, but it won't work. My text is something like this:
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Each item is from an XML tag, but I can't keep it as XML, for my own reasons which I won't get into. I form the text thusly:
ActionScript Code:
for (i = 0; i < myXML.childNodes.length; i++) {
node = myXML.childNodes[i];
for (a = 0; a < node.childNodes.length; a++) {
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I have a string (from xml) I want to display on stage. Currently I have a text field that I am simply assigning the text to (no problems) but I want to add line breaks at certain points.after reading this line:
"If the text includes a line break (for example, "
" or "
"), the bottom is also resized to fit the next line of text."
found here: [URL]
I got the impression that I could add a string to text with a line break in it? If I try and add it to my xml file it simply writes it out as normal characters.
I am fairly sure I can do it by showing as HTML but was wondering if there was another way ?
I am working on a simple textfield(or so i initially thought simple.) that consists of a scroll bar, some dynamically loaded text with a small amount of css styling the hyperlink. There are no initial errors the text loads, the style is applied successfully,scroll bar works BUT the text is no longer organised as all the breaks between the paragraph are gone and the text is squashed together in one block.
I've put my code below.the css is labeled code as there is no cSS tag on this forum
ActionScript Code:
import flash.net.URLLoader;
import fl.controls.UIScrollBar;
import flash.events.Event;
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I just started using TLF text and it's interesting. I have this issue however. I made an swf to demonstrate the problem and you can try it here: [URL] But this is the problem: I have an input textfield (type input) and output textfield (dynamic not selectable) and eventlisteners on the input fields. It seems like the TLF does not register the enter-key. Try it for yourself via the link above.My code is:
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When using a StyleSheet with html text in a dynamic textfield with embedded fonts line breaks are ignored. It is as if TextField.condenseWhite is being set to true. Essentially the <p> tags are being treated as a <br/> tag. If I don't embed fonts it works fine. Another weird thing is if I add an empty paragraph <p></p> between the first two paragraphs it makes any subsequent paragraph behave correctly.
E.g.
<p>first paragraph text here</p>
<p>second paragraph text here</p>
<p>third paragraph text here</p>
Displays as if there are <br/> between each one.
But
<p>first paragraph text here</p>
<p></p>
<p>second paragraph text here</p>
<p>third paragraph text here</p>
behaves correctly even for the third paragraph.
Here is the code I am working with (using XML as I am dynamically populating the textfield from XML). After reading [URL] I tried the same experiment using a TF drawn in the IDE, the results for each, even though the TextFields are essentially the same are totally different. Updated Code accordingly - just need a TF on stage, called "ideTextField" with font 'Arial'.
I'm using TLF to lay out a dictionary entry. It's working fairly well, but I need finer grained control of layout than I'm able to achieve through setting style properties on FlowElements, primarily for horizontal spacing and setting padding on SpanElements independently of their parents.
The solution that seems most promising is separating the various elements of the entry into separate containers and flowing the text through them by progressively adding new containers and ContainerControllers for each new element with size set to their content bounds so that the text will flow into each new container.
This ALMOST works, but the text will only flow correctly into the next container if an extra line break is inserted between the two sections of text that should go to different containers. Without the line break, the containers are sized correctly, but no text displays.
In these examples I've added borders to the container sprites so you can see where they're being drawn. Aside from the line break, the text is exactly the same. The syllable field is a SpanElement inside a ParagraphElement. The pronunciation label and text are separate SpanElements inside another ParagraphElement.
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As you can see, the pronunciation doesn't show unless a line break is added after the text, but the alignment is then off. No combination of line breaks seems to align them correctly.
Any ideas? Are these bugs in TLF? Should I try a different method? I would really like to have all the text selectable as one unit, and I love the better rendering and control that TLF offers, but I also need the layout flexibility. I suppose it's possible that I could hack something together like this with line breaks and positioning offsets, but it certainly wouldn't be pretty (or maintainable).
I'm having a problem with my imported HTML text - basically when I switch on 'Embed fonts' for a text field, Flash will only ever render one line break, regardless of how many </p> <br /> or whatever other type of line-breaking tag you can imagine are present.What this means is that all my paragraphs are squashed up into one, with no double line-break after the closing </p> tag, as you'd expect.I've used html text with css before and normally experience the opposite problem, whereby whitespace linebreaks in the imported text are rendered, but this problem is a new one on me.
View 1 RepliesI know that I've seen a few threads about this, but I'm not finding what I'm looking for. I've got an AS2 flash site using XML to import the text, then parsing it. I have a function that gets the text, then applies styles (css) to it. I'm wondering if there is an easy way to strip the unintentional line breaks at the same time, within the same function? Here is my get text function:
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Is it possible to load a text file using line breaks as a delimeter rather than having a &var= at the beginning of each line? Like by a for instance? I have a text file with about 1000 lines that I need to load/display.
View 5 RepliesI'm trying to remove all line breaks from the text that is pasted into the Spark TextArea.
I have:
<s:TextArea id="inputSearchQuery"
width="100%" height="22"
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Just completed this project http:[url].... however I'm getting mixed results with the text using the LoadVars method mainly with line breaks. On the live and store pages there is a text link within the copy, any idea of how I can format that as xml tags as I'm finding that easier to control, the rest of the site mainly uses xml text just these two pages are using external .txt docs because of the urls. Surely there is a way?
View 1 RepliesI'm not sure if its a specific cs5 problem, but my dynamic text boxes started breaking for seemingly no reason. I will tell it to display the contents of a variable, something like:
var myString:String = "15234m";
TextField.text = myString;
And on screen it will display something like "m" or "1"
Ive pulled up old flash files, that were working, and as soon as I save them out as cs5, all my dynamic text fields stop working correctly.
i have a problem with the line space flash creates when a dynamic text is loaded in a dynamic text field on the stage i put a dynamic textFild with istance name "profile_text". then im loadin in it a text. my text is written in the Notepad like this
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i already set a Textformat to my dynamic text with i tryied to play with the "Leading".. but i think it something dealing with paragraph. how i can decrease spacing between paragraphs??
I've create an email form in flash that uses ac3 and php to send out an email when the users click on the submit button. However, the email I receive loses all line break information. example: user inputs: hi there form I will get an email that is 1 line only "hithereform"
Here is the ac3 code: var email_data:String = "name=" + contactName_txt.text + "&email=" + contactEmail_txt.text + "&subject=" + "Web Form Message" + "&message=" + contactMessage_txt.text; And the php code: <?php $contact_name = $_POST['name'];
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This matter is something I haven't been able to solve for long and now I'm really desperate to find out an answer. Here's a link to a very simple zip file (as example) containing the conflictive fla and other files, for those of you who may want to have a look at it. TO SIMPLIFY THINGS: It seems that whenever I use a couple of AS instructions to load some Dynamic text from a text file, Forms which are based in formmail, stop working (no matter if these forms are made of dynamic or static text). Why??
INTO MORE DETAILS: In the attached fla example file here, I've simplified things very much by just leaving 2 Forms (one made with Dynamic text and another one without any dynamic text on it). Very peculiar, if in frame 1 I call the variables from the text file:
[AS]webcontent= "File.txt" loadVariablesNum (webcontent, 0);[/AS] the 2 Forms stop working properly: The static one doesn't even seem to submit data and the dynamic one, it seems data has been sent but data is never received. As soon as I delete these 2 lines of AS, they work properly again (although of course, no words can be seen in the Form made with dynamic text).
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This matter is something I haven't been able to solve for long and now I'm really desperate to find out an answer.Here's a link to a very simple zip file (as example) containing the conflictive fla and other files, for those of you who may want to have a look at it.TO SIMPLIFY THINGS:It seems that whenever I use a couple of AS instructions to load some Dynamic text from a text file, Forms which are based in formmail, stop working (no matter if these forms are made of dynamic or static text). Why??INTO MORE DETAILS:In the attached fla example file here, I've simplified things very much by just leaving 2 Forms (one made with Dynamic text and another one without any dynamic text on it).
Very peculiar, if in frame 1 I call the variables from the text file:[AS]webcontent= "File.txt"loadVariablesNum (webcontent, 0);[/AS]the 2 Forms stop working properly: The static one doesn't even seem to submit data and the dynamic one, it seems data has been sent but data is never received.As soon as I delete these 2 lines of AS, they work properly again (although of course, no words can be seen in the Form made with dynamic text).
Both submit buttons contain the following AS:
[AS]on (release) {
subject = "Customer Form from your Web";
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I am passing a text from javascript to flash. and spliting the text based on "<br>"
Here is my code
Javascript
<script> function printLabel(){ var label = document.getElementById("label1").innerHTML; thisMovie("main").sendText(label);
}
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When I use this code:
HTML Code:
<p><span class="boldgold">Flash Player now supports Cascading Style Sheets!</span><br/>
Macromedia Inc. announced today a new version of Flash Player that supports Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) text styles. </p>
it is normally formatted like this:
Quote:
Flash Player now supports Cascading Style Sheets!Macromedia Inc. announced today a new version of Flash Player that supports Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) text styles.However, in Flash, when I load the external text and use CSS to format it, I get an extra line break:
Quote:
Flash Player now supports Cascading Style Sheets!Macromedia Inc. announced today a new version of Flash Player that supports Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) text styles.The way around it is to let the text after the break tag follow that break tag:
HTML Code:
<p><span class="boldgold">Flash Player now supports Cascading Style Sheets!</span><br/>Macromedia Inc. announced today a new version of Flash Player that supports Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) text styles. </p>
Isn't there a way (as2 code?) to have flash format the text just like a browser would if it were a normal html page?
I want to have some line breaks in my XML. I have a the code for ignore white spaces which is eliminating my line breaks. i have tried <br> which doesnot work.
View 1 RepliesI've got a list I need to place in an XML file, and I need it to display as a list when it's brought into Flash. However, and do not work.
View 9 RepliesI'm new to flash and AS3, and have just figured out how toload an external XML document into a textField, which is thenstyled via an external CSS document. The styling works fine,colours change, font size changes etc... But! And here's myproblem, when the xml data is loaded into the textfield, where Ihave nested styles, it creates a line break.I have created a textField on the stage with an instance nameof: eventsContentTextFieldWhich is set to dynamic, scrolling (with a UIScrollBarcomponent), html and multiline.
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