After a lot of frustration I have just discovered that flash would pass in a different way a variable containing an accent (ex: myVar=test) if using LoadVars or just oadmovie("someScript.php?variable="+myVar);
PHP would get:
(with loadVars) =testé (which is probably unicode)
with (loadMovie) = test (which is not readable back again in flash, without using
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Is there an easy way using AS3 to convert a string that has accented characters in extended ASCII into regular characters? For instance:"Cdiz, Spain" to "Cadiz, Spain"The reason I want to do this is my program tests for matches between two data sources, one that uses accented characters and one that doesn't. Currently it's not considering that kind of comparison to be the same even though I want it to.
URL...after the stick figure walks past the words xiaoxiao in blue, how would I achieve the lighting effect that passing over the letters? I'm sure it's a mask but don't know how to achieve this effect?
View 12 RepliesI have a little flash application(cs4) to read xml files and to display the contents. xml files are being read using LoadVars::sendAndLoad() over http. It works fine unless I have an accented characater in the url.
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I'm building an interface to browse the Netflix Watch Instantly movies and I have run into a problem with special characters in the RSS feed. The URL for the feed is as follows: [URL]. If you open this in your browser, you will see the entire list. If you load this via an XML.load() call in Actionscript and read the result in an onLoad handler, it gets truncated at the end of the entry for the movie called "Lola Montes".
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I'm experiencing a strange problem. I'm loading an image with the Loader class (here is the code snippet):
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loader = new Loader();
loader.load(new URLRequest(path));
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I cant figure out how to import and read accented characters.
I have a php files, that loads as an XML file.
I'm trying to gather a Unicode list of all the 'o' like shapes in the Hindi character-set. In fact, a list of any characters (in any language) that makes uses of separate characters to indicate an accent would be better.I intend to use this unicode-list in a RegExp.I been trying to edit a list of character-ranges by outputting them in an Input TextField, but editing this text causes weird issues (the keyboard-cursor isn't place on the correct character, selections suddenly dissappear / incorrectly warps... in other words... HINDI HELL!)
I've tried this with Notepad++ too, but although it was more responsive, it eventually crapped out on me like it did in the Flash Player textfield. This seems to occur especially while removing the [] block (nulls?) characters. Some of them trigger odd behaviors.
I've been using Flash for a few years now and I've recently (5 months+) started using CS5 package.My query is how do I successfully embed accented latin characters into a "classic" dynamic text field in my compiled Flash movie that are called from an external text file. I've searched the various forums online and all the methods demonstrated have not worked.
What I've done so far is to to select my dynamic text field, click on "Embed" within the PROPERTIES area, choose the font and the weight, then add any of the foreign characters and/or glyphs to the "Also include these characters:" area then finish up and compile. When I run my SWF file, the glyphs and accented fonts are missing but all the other typical Latin characters show up.
I tried this same method in CS4 (because we have an old Mac in the office too), and almost the same thing happened except instead of completely missing out the glyphs and fonts, it showed a box (almost like an image placeholder) instead.
I'm trying to find a way to add to the front and back of a word in a string based on the letters it starts with.
For example if I had a string "I think http://www.facebook.com/ is better than http://twitter.com" it would look for the instance of "http://" and give me "I think <b>http://www.facebook.com/</b> is better than <b>http://twitter.com</b>"
This is the thread to discuss all things relating to the Fading Out Letters in Text tutorial.
View 1 RepliesI am having problem with the text tool on flash version 8 the problem is that I am seen some blur letters when I preview my swf on explorer using dreamweaver version 8. I trying to find out what could cause the blurring the properties of the text is arial size 10 and verdana size 10. For example the period on the small i in some words look different.
View 3 RepliesGood technigue for finding out if a string has any letters?I'm not looking for a specific letter, I just want to search a string and find out if it has any letters.
View 2 RepliesI'm starting using the CS4 version of flash, and in my codes, every word is "missing" the last letter. It's not really missing, we just can't see it, or see only half of it. Did it ever happen to you? If so, how can I fix this?
View 4 RepliesThe game is already working, only missing a function to random the letters
function make_game()
{
var word_mc = createEmptyMovieClip("word_mc",1);
var words_array:Array = dica_node.split("<br>");//getting the XML values
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So I have a string "SmartUserWantsToLive" I want to generate from it or any such string with capital letters strings like "Smart User Wants To Live".
View 1 RepliesIs there a way to embed only a few letters from a font instead of embedding the whole thing?
View 2 RepliesI know how to catch usual lowercase letters. I'm using KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN and compare the code to the ASCII table to find out which key was pressed. Now, I also want to be able to find out if there is, for example SHIFT+A pressed, and I have no idea how to implement this. I mean, in my program SHIFT and A are absolutely different keys which have nothing to do with each other, and they both will call KeyboardEvents when pressed. In Georgian alphabet some letters are typed by combination of SHIFT and English letters, for example W on Georgian keyboard means წ, when SIFT+W means ჭ. Absolutely different letters, as you can see. And I want to be able to catch both, coz I'm currently developing Georgian-language game.
View 2 RepliesI need to append 4 letters to my variable name when referencing it to get either spanish or english XML data. I am trying to reuse my functions without writing an if statement.
like so:
//two options for
var spa_my_videos:XMLList;
var eng_my_videos:XMLList;
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I want to convert text to audio and I was told that there is a way to assign a sound to every letter and then I would just have to concatenate the sounds to form words
View 4 Replieshow to get loadVar to read special characters like � and � when using it to read from a textfile??
View 5 RepliesFor a rather complex search function I need to get the first letter of each word entered into an input field. At first glance this may not seem like a big problem if every word is neatly seperated by a space.
Although people can enter whatever they want into the field I only want to work with the words that start with a-z or A-Z.
I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how I can determine if a character in the string falls into this selection. One of the possibilities is to use charCodeAt(), but that's rather rough. I can walk through the string using indexOf() but I may have trouble finding the next word if characters other than a space come into play.
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There have been many posts about how to draw letters dynamically. This is an example of drawing the font outlines dynamically. Not the same as "writing" them, but an interesting technique [URL].
View 3 RepliesHow to specify in this validation script that letters are not allowed?[code]box is a text field.
View 6 RepliesI'm trying to create a function in FMX that validates a field for numbers and letters only, i.e. no special characters. I know how to check for number strings and so on but trying to check for letters in a string?
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I have this text String in an Array. It'll be sent to a TextField, but first I'd like to change the color of one of the letters. Like this:
some_array = ["This i<font color='#000000'>s</font> an example"];
But I'd like to do it with actionscript, so I can enter a number and one of the letters changes color. In this example the number is 7, since 's' is the 7th letter.
Is there a way to take all the letters out of a string and then use it as a integer?If that is not possible, is there a way to take the first three letters off a string variable? i.e. make myVariable='pic1' into myVariable = '1' Yes? no?
View 4 RepliesI want to be able to detect when a certain key is pressed. Not the preset ones like spacebar, enter, delete, left, right, etc... I want to make it so that when the letter "a" is pressed, then such and such happens, and if the letter "m" is pressed, another thing happens.
View 3 RepliesI am trying to make a simple encryption tool and I was wondering how I could use code to replace text, with something totally different!
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to make 4 movie clips/cycling letters for the lowercase alphabet. 3 random letters and one to stop on an indicated letter, i.e. "a" . I'm trying to make a letter recognition game for a class project, the aim is to have 3 random letters as well as the letter that was in an earlier screen pointed out.
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