I have an XML driven Flash site and can't get quote marks to work in Flash 6. They show up fine in version 7 and 8 of the flash player. Here's what I'm doing:
My XML file: (added line breaks just for this example)
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how to get this working in Flash 6? We really want to use REAL quote marks.
I bought a flash site template that loads xml driven swfs inside the main swf as different menu items are clicked. The modules that come with the template work fine, but I don't know how to add a third party xml driven swf, so that it shows up properly. While the third party swf works fine as a standalone, the embedded version loads just an empty movie.
View 4 RepliesHow do I escape double quote " in XML when I load it in Flash? I use createTextField and I have created a Font in the Library. I use TextFormat to embed the font. When just use " in my XML file, it will show " in my flashmovie, why is that?
I tried " and " ... doesn't work?
Code:
<gerecht>
<nummer>82</nummer>
<naam>Gerecht "Naam" </naam>
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I don't need a website designed, just a flash 'movie'-style animation (2 min. approx. duration)I've created static content in Ai CS4 that I just need to be animated, and I could supply people with a storyboard. Similar look to the animation on this site: URL.. but with more complex animations and graphics.[code]
View 5 RepliesI'm trying to populate a Flash quote system with XML but as try as I may I'm unable to get the subsuboption (like Jewelcase --> Insert --> Glossy finish) to work.
Basically this quoting system has been dumped on my desk and I have till Monday to update it (I'm a graphic designer not a flash developer and I don't have a clue as to what I'm doing!).
The AS Code is:
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var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, LoadXML);
var xmlData:XML = new XML();
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Now I can get it to compile, but when it goes to pull the data it will work upto the Suboptions and then any code further on fails to load (so I suspect there is something wrong with either the XML or the AS tying to the XML).
In my flash application I am using a typewriter effect, to make it seem as if text is written on the fly. When I do so, my punctuation marks (question mark, dot, ect.) get aligned to the wrong direction (to the right). I am writing in Hebrew (right-to-left).
View 1 RepliesAs part of my brief, I have to create a small flash movie that will load a random quote (which is actually a jpeg image), fade it in to view, display it for a length of time (probably only 3-5 seconds), fade it out and then load another random quote. Is this possible to do, purely using actionscript? I can randomly load an image - I used the "Random Background Image" tutorial on this site - but getting the fading/pausing/fading then moving to another quote has got me stumped.
The images are imported into their own swf file that is loaded into a placeholder movie on the html page. I tried adding in a for loop to the individual swf and the placeholder movie, to loop through alpha property of the image (just to fade up for the moment, till I get it working) - but this didn't work at all. I could use tweens for the fading, but this could end up a mess and more work than it needs to be as there could be quite a lot of quotes added over time.
In the past I have used PPro CS4 and Encore to create a DVD of clips which I show to clients. Each clip has a chapter mark so that I can jump quickly to the start of each clip. I now want to make a big Flash file of all the clips, with chapter marks which I can quickly jump to. But when I create the file from PPro, I get all the clips in one nice big file, but with no chapter marks. If I create it from Encore, it cuts the file into lots of little Flash files, the cutting points being the chapter marks. How can I create one big Flash file consisting of all the little clips, but with chapter marks which I can jump to?
View 3 RepliesHow to or have run across a tutorial where you can add quote of the day to website?
View 4 RepliesCreate a flash application which will be displayed on a web page which will read from a list of text inside an XML file and display them randomly with fade-in fade-out effects and also at random positions.My current approach to the problem is using a Dynamic Text Area which will read from the xml file, however I only got to the stage where the swf will read the xml file. Trying to get the fade effect and the positioning effect is proving very difficult for me.The sample XML I am working with:
<tag>
<tagline>Global Jobs Pact</tagline>
<tagline>Green Jobs</tagline>
<tagline>Decent Work</tagline>[code]......
I have a flash front end that displays information and is capable of building MySQL queries and handing them off to PHP via loadVars. PHP handles the dirty work of connecting to the database, executing the queries, and returning any results. So my problem is with single quotes. In flash I can build the query string with single quotes easy enough, but for some reason php keeps doubling them up and messing up the query.
Here is an example of the flash code:
ActionScript Code:
var send_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
var load_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
load_lv.onLoad = function(bSuccess){
if(bSuccess){
trace(this.output);
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The problem is that the sql statement that php is trying to execute looks like this:
insert into mytable (field1, field2) values (''value1'', ''value2'')
Where each single quote has been turned into two single quotes for some reason.
I'm using the quote randomizer from kirupa, but the same couple lines out text seems to arise far too frequently. any ideas? I was thinking that i could remove the random part of the script, and just make it go from 1-100 in order,
current AS:
/****************************************
**Random Quotes Script*******************
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i want a quote to appear in the dynamic text box but obviously you cant just write it as it thinks its text data, but im thinking its " but how do impliment it, i want a quote before and after +username_ti.text+ _parent.user_mc.user_ti.text = "Welcome you are currently logged in as " + username_ti.text +"
View 3 RepliesWhat's the best way to handle the " symbol, dynamically written to XML output from a PHP upon request, and then pulled into Flash, parsed, and assigned to a String?Should the entire node's data be wrapped as CDATA in the XML document? But when when it gets assigned as a String in Flash, will Flash freak out because there's a " in it?Should PHP write escape characters into the node's text to escape quotes, ampersands, gt/lt, and apostrophes (and then will Flash handle these ok?)? Or should PHP convert all unsafe characters into their HTML equivalent?What about the British pound symbol? We're using UTF-8, so is there a safe way to handle this?
View 2 RepliesI've been messing around with this XML random quote rotators from this site but I'm unable to make it so it doesn't repeat the same quote twice. It has a tendency to show the same quote 3x in a row.
PHP Code:
//importing tween classesimport fl.transitions.Tween;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
//we create a variable to store the loaded XMLvar xml:XML;
//the path to the xml filevar xmlPath:String = "data/quotes.xml";
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I am build a rotating quote display for a website I'm working on -- the quotes come from a MySQL database and are displayed with PHP. A new (randomly selected) quote needs to fade in and then out every few seconds.I am mildly accustomed to Flash and know PHP and MySQL very well, so I was able to get the database interaction and whatnot going. You can see my progress here: [URL]I am willing to post the .fla file;
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to produce a one frame random quote field. I have a dynamic text field "quotebox" with the var of "quotefield"
rn=random(10);
loadText=new loadVars();
loadText.load("quotes.txt");
quotern=["quote"+rn];
loadText.onLoad=function() {
quotefield.text=quotern;
};
That's what I have for code. On the qoutes.txt file I have quote1-quote10 listed. I can get the quotern to display in the text field but can't get the quotes in the text field unless I do this
loadText.onLoad=function() {
quotefield.text=quote10;
Add the quote# to the code which then displays the quote.
When changing wmode to transparent or opaue, or just by default, some browers change the @ to a " ... so you have to use the opposite button, ie shift-2.The only fix I know is to run a listener and switch double quotes for @ symbols...
View 1 RepliesI followed the Random Quote Tutorial, pretty self explanatory really as all the tutorials are. is simple to have a whole bunch of words, load them randomly into a text box and then animate that text box randomly on the stage. So for example I'd have 'BLAH' loaded into a random area on the stage (or a specific set of coords if needs be) and then 'BLAH' would scale up from zero to fade out into _alpha=0 and a massive scale.
The problem I'm having is that whilst I can follow the random quote tutorial that relies on pressing a button to trigger the quote being loaded, thats my first problem. How to load the random word into this text box to then be displayed on the screen, do something with that text box (the animation) then loop back round once its finished. I'm assuming I get this by....if textbox._alpha = 0 then go back to the beginning type thing?!
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I am trying to randomly load a simple quote from an xml file. Here is my AS:
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I can't figure this out. Probably because I really don't know what I am doing.
I am looking for a non XML driven Flash banner rotator, something where I can load my images into the FLA and publish. The only rotators I can seem to find have external XML/image files, etc. All I want to do is create simple SWF's that I can use to display rotating images preferably is a smooth and stylish manner. Does anyone know of any, or could point me in the right direction?
View 1 RepliesI'm being asked if some resources I created can be made accessible. Currently each resource is the exact same launch.swf, but each is pulling from a different xml file. I'm so proud of myself! But now it looks like you can't dynamically generate accessilbe resources. I'm being asked for the alt.text equivalent of various text boxes, while the actual content of each box depends on multiple factors.
View 1 RepliesIm currently working on a system whereby a user can fill in text fileds within a PDF form, submit the data as XML and this is picked up by the Actionscript in a .SWF file thus allowing end user customisation without the need to edit the actual Flash files.I have all this working fine so far however im stuck at a particular part.I want to have radio buttons (or something similar) on each page of the PDF where the user can select if the page has to be output in the .SWF file or not. Ive tried creating the actionscript part for this however im completely lost. The XML from the PDF i can manage no probs but the actionscript part is stumping me.
View 3 RepliesI am trying to create something like attached picture. I want a start. how i can do it in flash AS3.0
View 3 RepliesI've been hunting for tutorials on XML driven AS3 menus. I've found some really cool stuff, but nothing that does what I want, and most don't really explain the "hows' involved in getting the XML into the flash. I want to dynamically load menu buttons based upon an xml document in horizontal fashion with sub menus that load 10px down and to the right of the main menu button. With each item in the sub menu filing to the right. I'd also like to have that light up bar track the main buttons so that as the mouse moves over the bar slides to it.
Here's the code for the bar:
ActionScript Code:
import fl.transitions.Tween;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
button_mc.buttonMode = true;
button2_mc.buttonMode = true;
button_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, hover);
button2_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, hover);
function hover(e:MouseEvent):void {
new Tween(bar_mc,"x",Strong.easeOut,bar_mc.x,e.currentTarget.x,1,true);
}
Most of the XML driven code I have found obviously doesn't have a static instance name and use addChild()
I am trying to create something like attached picture.i also want it to xml driven pies so my data will be in the xml file. I want a start.
View 4 RepliesI am pulling a .txt document into a flash swf. The accent marks are in the txt doc but when it pulls into the swf and viewed in the browser they are missing. Txt doc loads fine with no errors but characters with accent marks are just missing.
Here is a link: [URL]
'm currently develop a flash game but i don't know how to save the games marks so thatthe user can display it when the games was over.
View 5 RepliesIs there something I can do to make it so that a flashvar can contain any sort of punctuation and not break the html code? Like some sort of encompassing brackets or something? Right now if I try to include some long strings that have quote marks or other characters that could have some sort of meaning in the code, then it tends to interpret it as code rather than a string. Anything I can do?
View 1 RepliesI am using ASP create XML file, than load XML to Flash.But just found a problem, some speech marks cann't be displayed.my XML looks like that:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<config>
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