ActionScript 2.0 :: Randomizing Dynamically Loaded Text Files (on Reload)?
Jun 3, 2004
I am interested in designing a web-site with the primary purpose of displaying various poems and songs I've written over the years. The premise is simple: I need some actionscript which will detect the number and names of text files in a certain directory, and randomly pick one of them, then load it into a text field and format it with CSS. The user should simply have to reload their browser to get another randomly loaded poem. I've only taken one Flash class (very light on AS) and not at all knowledgeable on making 'universal AS' and usually hard-code everything. My apologies if something similar has been asked before..
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Dec 2, 2009
I'm a flash noob and I'm having trouble randomizing few dynamically loaded swf files.
1. I have a UILoader on the stage with an instance name of bg_ldr. It is working properly.
2. I have (attempted) to set up a function called getRandomNumber (see code below) and I believe it is correct.
3. BUT... specifically I don't know what I should put in this part of the code: bg_ldr.source = bgArray[?????]; and I think this area is the problem. I thought I could just call my function, like this:bg_ldr.source = bgArray[getRandomNumber];But it's not working.[code]
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Apr 18, 2002
I'm a newbie at programming and had performed serveral search on the net without much useful results. For all you programmer guru out there, please lend me a hand if you can.I am using flash version 5.0. I have 7 flash movie files within one working flash file and only 4 movie files gets display on an HTML page at a time. I need a script that will randomize the appearance of the movie files each time the browser gets refresh. But the script should only randomize 2 of the 4 movie files.
So for example, say I have movie files named 1 to 7. On browser load, I have movie file, 1,2,3 and 4 displayed. Now when a user refresh browser, I want movie file, 1 and 4 to be replaced by either movie file 5,6, or 7 (ie. random diplay of file).This might sounds confusing or I might not be explaining it well, but if you go to www.standpipe.com you will see what I mean. Look at the Case studies section, there are 4 movie files being displayed.
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Sep 7, 2004
I am trying to preload dynamic swf files from an asset folder into a blank movie clip within my main swf file. Some of the files are 2+ mb and need to preload.
I am dynamically importing the swf files from an external asset folder into a blank movHolder movie clip on the stage of my main movie. I have this working fine. I am having a hard time knowing where to place the preload script (in the asset swf or in the movHolder clip), and whether or not my script is accurate for this procedure.
Inside of the movieHolder clip, I placed the preload script script on frame 1:
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loadedBytes = Math.round(getBytesLoaded() / 1024);
percentDone = Math.round ((loadedBytes / tatalBytes) * 100);
framesloaded >=100) {
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On frame 15 I have a looping action that tells flash to gotoAndPlay(5); as it loads the asset to frame 100.
On frame 20 I have inserted the label "start".
Obviously my approach is flawed and does not control the dynamically loaded asset. I am assuming that the asset swf if loading on frame 1 and ignoring my code.
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Sep 7, 2004
I am trying to preload dynamic swf files from an asset folder into a blank movie clip within my main swf file. Some of the files are 2+ mb and need to preload. Let me tell you what I have done so far, and hopefully someone can put me on the right path.
I am dynamically importing the swf files from an external asset folder into a blank movHolder movie clip on the stage of my main movie. I have this working fine. I am having a hard time knowing where to place the preload script (in the asset swf or in the movHolder clip), and whether or not my script is accurate for this procedure. Inside of the movieHolder clip, I placed the preload script script on frame 1:
[Code]...
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Feb 22, 2012
I have created a galley with dynamically loaded multiple swf files. Half of them contain animations running at 60fps. The other half are flash movies at 30fps. If I select the speed of my gallery file to be 30fps animations play slow. If speed of gallery file is 60fps flash movies play too fast. How can I override the speed of the individual .swf's so they all play evenly.
some AS3 script for each individual movie? i.e. animation speed (individual file) speed: 1/2?..
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Jul 2, 2009
I'm about to start a project where there will be a Flash application where the visitor customizes a profile with externally loaded images and texts. Then the visitor needs to be able to download that profile as a dynamically created swf with all that external content baked into the swf.
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Aug 4, 2010
i have a swf file which is a framework file done in puremvc and i m loading multiple swf files. one of the swf file loaded into the main swf file loads multiple sub swf files in it. works fine but in the loaded swf file which loads multiple swf files in it.. button dosent work at all. i m not able to click on any button. i m jst making a tree structure so can be easily understood..
container swf -> external swf -> miniSwf file and in miniSwf dynamic button are not clickable but they have all the Mouse eventListeners.
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Feb 1, 2011
I'm having a problem adding numbers that are loaded to dynamic text boxes. I'm using AS 2 (Flash 8). The numbers are loaded to the textboxes from a text file using a loadVars command. The text boxes have instance names of TELEMATICS and BOOK - I have a third textbox called (instance name) RESULT - the text file is called TEST1.txt. My problem is that after trying (and trying) several solutions in tutorials I am unable to add the values in TELEMATICs and BOOK to get a (sum) total in RESULT. My code to load the numbers is as follows:
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Jul 11, 2011
I have a script that dynamically loads text from xml files. The only problem I have is to attach scrollbar to this dynamic text.. I've been trying to modify this scrollbar from flashmo (in attachment), but I didn't manage to do it...
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Oct 1, 2011
So this is my code so far. What I am trying to do is load the attribute of name into separate MC's that are clickable to then once clicked have the MC "txtBox" load what is in the attribute "link".As it stands now the name of the buttons is loading perfectly, but the trace is bringing back an undefined value
Code:
importXML = new XML();
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Jun 7, 2011
I'm externally loading text from a .txt file. I need to format that file using CSS. I've got the CSS file set up and everything. I've tried every tutorial I can find to try and load the CSS, but nothing is working.Here is the script for loading the text:
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Jul 21, 2003
except with an external txt file for the animation to read from. ... is this possible to do with flash, i have read a cuple of tutes, but haven't been able to get it working..Here is what i have so far, I created a dynamic text box and can read in the text using
loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load("hello1.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function() {
[code].....
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Feb 18, 2004
Im currently doing a quiz, which, after the user completes all the questions, displays the users score and depending on that score, a certain message ie
if (score<=2) {
Score_Msg.text =" That was poor!":
} else if (score<=5) {
Score_Msg.text = "You know a bit but not much";
}
In the text, i want to include a hyperlink. Is there anyway of making certain parts of dynamically loaded txt into a hyperlink?
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Mar 21, 2004
After completing the dynamic text loading tutorial, I'm attempting to format the text after it's loaded with the following[code]...
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Feb 10, 2003
I followed the tutorial for Scrolling Dynamically Loaded Text & its works well. The problem I am experiencing I have a limited about of space in my movie for the text box. The text file has all the data that I need to display but for some reason I only see a portion of the information & I can't seem to figure out my mistake.
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Apr 8, 2003
I keep on running into weird formatting problems when working with external text files loaded in dynamic text boxes. the latest is with the attached txt file. It stops displaying the text right before the first href HTML tag...
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May 7, 2003
Is it possible to call different data from a same text file? In the tutorial about the dynamically loaded text, the example was "kirupatext=" and the text was loaded from after that in the txt file. Is it possible to make it stop loading after a certain point?
For example,
" kirupatext=
Hello There!
I am an example of text that has been loaded from a separate location on kirupa's server. Best of all, notice that you can scroll the contents of the text up and down by clicking on the arrows. This is a nice, useful feature that you can use on your site."
How can I make it load only up to "Best of all"? Is it possible to break up the text into 2 parts so that they are loaded by different text boxes? i tried adding another marker like "kirupatext2=" at another point, but it just gets loaded along with the first "kirupatext=".
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Jul 20, 2006
I found the following tutorials helpful, but now I want to combine them, but I don't know how.[URL]
code for the scroller
loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load("answers.txt");
//creating the loadVarsText function
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May 29, 2007
Another problem for me with the dynamic scroller found on the Kirupa site: [URL] I can't figure out how to create URL links in the text. I tried selecting "render text as HTML" and added this to the .txt file: < a h ref=" mylink" > mylinkhere < / a> (without the spaces) but it just showed up 'as it'.
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Jan 29, 2008
I'm fairly new to action script so this might be me being simple but: I followed the Scrolling Dynamically Loaded Text tutorial and added it to my flash movie and although it works perfectly in the tests and once published once it loads in the browser all I get is the word undefined at the top of the text box. I've searched all over for a solution but as I said my understanding of action script is fairly limited.
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Jul 21, 2003
except with an external txt file for the animation to read from. ... is this possible to do with flash, i have read a cuple of tutes, but haven't been able to get it working...
Here is what i have so far, I created a dynamic text box and can read in the text using
[Code]...
Txt being the name of the instance of my text box....but see when i try to make this into a symbol or clip, and animate it, i dont see the text anymore
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Aug 4, 2004
Does anyone know if it's possible to make a url link within text dynamically loaded from a .txt file into a blank dynamic text box?
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Mar 21, 2004
After completing the dynamic text loading tutorial, I'm attempting to format the text after it's loaded with the following.
var loadText = new LoadVars();
loadText.load("data.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function() {
[Code].....
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Jan 17, 2004
I have a dynamic text box (myText.text and services.text), that load different texts from different buttons. Below is the code for one of the buttons. Where it says... "here" I want to create a link that opens up a centred html file. Is there any coding that I can use?
wed1_btn.onRelease=function() {
myText.text = "Wedding Consultation... ? ";
services.text = "Our consultation.. blah blah. Click here for fees ";
}
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Sep 10, 2009
I'm working on a number of pages that load external text files with buttons.That part works fine and I had the text marked up with basic html but would rather use css....I'm trying to figure out how to apply the css to the text:here is the css
Code:
@charset "UTF-8";
/* CSS Document */
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Sep 12, 2008
I'm having trouble with a button script my client has asked me to create. I need to put together a script to detect if a specific movie clip "port_fade.swf" has already been loaded and into a container and if so don't reload it. This clip has to load on a on(release) function. I have 8 buttons and depending on which button a visitor clicks on I need the clip to load. I don't want to have it reload every time a button is clicked.
I found this code but it doesn't seem to work.
function loadExternalSwf() {
if (containerFade.thisID == "port_fade.swf") {
trace("Content already loaded - Don't do anything.");
} else {
mcl.loadClip("port_fade.swf", containerFade);
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Nov 1, 2009
I have a set-up a movie to dynamically load text from a text file. Now I realize that I want to attach live links to some of the urls in the text file. My question is can you attach the links in a text file by putting html tags in there or is it better to turn the text file into an XML file with the tags in there?Also can you attach CSS styles to that text file.. for instance in addition to adding links to the text I would also like to change the color of the text.
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Sep 27, 2010
create links in a dynamically loaded text box? I have a dynamic text box with this code (Flash MX/1.0):
loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load("news_txt.txt");
//creating the loadVarsText function
loadText.onLoad = function() {
scroller.text = this.newstext;
};
I followed this tutorial [URL] but I need to be able to make links within this text. I'd like to be able to add other HTML code to the text (bold, underline, etc.) but just being able to make hyperlinks from the .txt file would be great.
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May 7, 2010
Is there a way of checking if a text dynamically loading (ed typing) is in english language (and not for example in spanish, or japanese)?
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