I'm trying to port an application created in another language to Flash. I'm trying to implement a boolean function that simply tells me if a word I pass in as an argument is contained in the text field. So I am wondering if Flash includes a built-in function such as "find" or "contain?" which are common in other languages for determining if a word is in a text field?
View 1 RepliesI have a dropdown box that is used to select a Category. I need the Flash Application to send the value of Category plus the search string in my textbox to my Access query and return results for each product meeting selection criteria. The Flash Application is calling an ASP.NET web service which in turn queries an MS Access database.
To start, how do I define the category ID and search value in my Actionscript 3 code?I've placed a series of 12 or so objects that will be populated with the product description, title and price. How do I setup each field to be dynamic text associated with the title description and price from my query results? If there are more than 12 products returned by the query, how do I add an additional page of objects to house more than 12 query results?
I want create 3 dynamic text fields with createTextField function and i want apply a TextFormat on all three text fields.
I use this code:
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but the problem is, that only one text field is created - text2, and also TexTFormat cant be apply to this text field.
I have a number of input text field on stage. I want to call certain function when specific input text fields are selected.
View 2 RepliesI've started a project a while ago, so far it is almost done but there is something that I seem not to be able to do alone... I would like to add a search function which I don't know how to do.It will not be a normal search function so I am going to try to beak it down with an easy example:
Let's say I did a project that is embeded somewhere in a normal html page with a main menu from where you can get to different city maps (e.g. New York, Paris, Berlin). The maps are seperate swfs. On all those maps there are several buttons for historical sites (or whatever) with a mousover function and a link to a page with more information about that specific site (on html).the names of the buttons are always a letter and a number (New York: "N1","N2","N3"...; Paris: "P1","P2","P2"... instance name for P1 is p1_btn)
What I need now is a search field in the main menu where you can search for those buttons. Meaning if I type in "N2" and hit search it will take me to the New York swf and show me button "N2".
I know this might not make much sense like this but the actual version is quite different and more complicated context-wise. Therefore if possible I would like to leave it that way with the main menu, the linked swfs and the buttons.
i am building a little widget that allows a user to type in keyword(s) into one input field and then a zip code into another
when the user clicks submit, it plugs them into the search url
i have it working for one input field, but i am not sure how to append the script for the second field...what would i need to change to the below script to add a second field into that query string?
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btn.onRelease = function(){
getURL("http://www.google.com/search?q="+myInputField,"_blank");
}
I've got a flash movie that reads in an XML file and has an input text box. When you type something in the input box, I want to search through the XML and return the names of the elements that match whatever is currently in the input box, even if its only partially complete.The input box has an event listener of type Event.CHANGE on it and it runs the following function.
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I have a video player embedded in flash and done in AS2. It takes the playlist from an xml file. I want to add a search function so that it lists related videos on searching and each result would be clickable so that the corresponding video plays.
View 0 RepliesI'm trying to create a simple xml search function that searches an xml file for a string, and if that string is found in the xml, display the node which contains that string in a text box.I have the simple search function working, but what I can't do is return the specific node. Right now, the function is returning all the xml data instead. If someone could take a look and possibly lend some guidance as to how to return the specific daya, I would be much oblidged. Hope this makes sense, if not, let me know and I'll do my best to clarify.[code]
View 6 RepliesI'm working on a project where I'll need to create a search function to search through a whole chunk of XML generated through the database. [code]...
View 0 RepliesI've got this simple GUI that has a search box and a couple result fields for "Word" and "Definition"...I've also got an XML file with about 800 or so terms and definitions.Currently the flash works just fine, it reads in the XML glossary, splits it into a word array and definition array and when I search through it, it creates a List filled with terms that match the string that I search for. We wanted it to update the list of possible matching terms each time you changed the search term: a, ap, app, appl, apple... etc.
Everything works, its just incredibly slow when you throw 800 terms at it to search through.I was wondering if anyone could either optimize my search somehow, show me another way of doing it.Here is the code pulled from the whole GUI.
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var glossary_xml:XML;
var xmlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest("glossary.xml");[code].........
Is there a method, such as via AS or Remoting, to create a site search tool within a Flash movie?First post here, but a long time visitor to Kirupa. Great site!
View 3 RepliesAlright so lets say I have a number of movieclips or text fields or something with instance names test1, test2, test3 and so forth. Now say I want to fill these text fields with text that I have in an array and I want to do this with a loop, how do I do this? What I'm really asking is if there is a way to use a variable in an instance name if you catch my drift.
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I'm having trouble with dynamically assigning text to a dynamically created text field.
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I've tried setting up the TextFormat and createTextField as a function that's called on the onRelease handler. I've tried dropping the whole frackin' code in the onRelease function for each button. Neither approach works. I've been digging around on the web, looking for answers, and nothing seems to solve my problem.
I have a code that creates 10 dynamic text fields, along the "y" axis, based on a loop.
What I want to happen is, for each text field that is created, i want the numbers to constantly change based on a timer (they'll all change at the same time, but to random numbers).
Right now, the code below changes the numbers, but keeps stacking the new numbers on top of the old...
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var timer:Timer = new Timer(100,0);//called every Xms, repeated infinately (0);
timer.addEventListener (TimerEvent.TIMER, doNumber);
timer.start ();
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I want to vreate a recursive function that will search through my xml tree and display all the leaves(node values); this is the function that I wrote:
function searchXML (theItem) {
trace("theItem.*.length() "+theItem.length());
trace("theItem.* "+theItem);
trace("--------------------------------------");
if (theItem.*.length() > 0) {
searchXML(theItem.*);
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I'm working on writing an application that searches through xml data using a kind of "advanced" search. Users can filter data based on combobox data.Here is my xml:
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<backgrounds>
<background name="Grassy Green" author="GBLM" description="A Grassy Meadow - perfect for brightly themed logos!" category="general" game="modernwarfare2" system="xbox360" colors="green yellow" tags="grassy,green,field,bright,gblm,"[code].....
It pretty much searches through the attributes, and also filters through some. The theory is that in my combo boxes, I also have a choice with blank data, so that way if they choose that it will not filter, because every string has an index of "". I have a few questions: Also, I keep getting this error:
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TypeError: Error #1006: value is not a function.
at testfile2NEW_fla::MainTimeline/searchPopulate()
at testfile2NEW_fla::MainTimeline/searchPopulateHandler()[code].....
Here is another thread I posted on a similar issue to this: http:[url]....I load my images into a TileList component as well. The xml is already loaded into my movie fine, and the images load fine into the TileList component, but my concern is making the Search feature accurate.
I need some help with a flash app im currenctly programming. I have a management flash app that does some operations in a MySql databases. I have had some problems, but for the most part, I have been able to press on. I'm a flash AS3 newb, so bear that in mind.
My actual problem is that I need to do a "Search" module, and I need it to print several results at once. I am although unsure how to get the results on flash. what I have been doing now is calling a php script that, after doing its operation, does something like (for example):
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I'm trying to create a search function or find one on the web to purchase for a flash based website, and I've been trying to find some different tutorials on how to do this. I found a search program from CoffeeCup Flash Website Search that looked promising, however the big problem that I've been running into is that the website does not have an http:// address because it is running on an internal company network so it's file extension is like this:\File01MyDepartmentIndex.html so the CoffeeCup Flash Website Search can't do a search for all text found on my site. I'd like to have someone be able to search my site for text found on any of the different pages (All created with seperate swfs) and there are datagrids on most of them with xml data being loaded into them
View 0 Repliesi have a big problem with Search function to build the Glossary.. First, what is the best way to build up the Search function that contains 400 more keyword?? what way should i use, with XML, or combo box or etc????
I have used the text field with String.indexOf() .. but it seem like not the best way.. because it's really long..
how to do a search function accross multimple swf movies in a cd rom. The situation is like this: i m making an elearning project where i have around 17 to 18 chapters. Now, all the chapters are in flash and they are seperate movies. Now, if someone wants to search for something inside the cd, like say, they are searching for "entertica" then all the pages that is related to that word should show up.. like google search.
View 2 RepliesI have this long list of video files(some 500 of them) to be linked to my flash interface. I am looking at the option of creating a search engine such as that when the user key in some keywords, it will search thru my list of video files and bring up the appropriate files. (results will show names of files first then user can choose to click on those that they want to view)
View 8 RepliesI'm planning to make an interactive map which have a search function. What I want is when user insert a place name in the search textfield then click the search button, when it found, the map images/mc slide then locate the place point, which is a button. How could I do this?
View 2 RepliesI want to build search functionality into my AS3 app, whereby I would give some MovieClips their own relevant 'tags' and check whether any of the tags match the search items the user has put in - the objects would then be sorted depending on how much they match the search. I am thinking to put the tags for each object in an array and then go through them and look for matches, it is possible there would be multiple matches for each search request and I will need to split the search string on each 'space' (spacebar) to allow for multiple search terms. Also, I want to run the search every half second or so and so the search term could match the first few letters of a tag and this should return a positive match.
View 3 RepliesI need to be able to get the int returned on this. If I serach for any letter as a string I get the search function working right. If I run it like it is below I get back 0, which I should get 3.
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I have a slight problem with serching datagrid, the thing is that i load xml to datagrid it works but when i filter i get an error msg. The code looks like this:
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how can I implement Search function in Flash Template / Website.
View 0 RepliesBasically I want to get the text fields in my Flash translated. To achieve this, I have the translations in a XML file and all text fields are dynamic. I read the XML (dependent on a language calling parameter from the HTML) and set the text fields like:
this["text_1"].text = "Hello";
The "text_1" and "Hello" are of course retrieved from the XML and I use variables in my code.
Now to the problem: I can successfully set the text field, that is visible in the Frame 1 (where my script is executed), but setting text fields that appear later give me an error. Translated it means something like Null Pointer not accessible. So I assume, that the this["text_x"] can not be found.
Is there a way to access it without copying the script into each text element? I have also thought about events, e.g. when the text is shown the first time and I do the translation then (would have to cache the XML at startup then to save time), but didn't find anything.
I am creating a series of text fields to display data from an xml file.
eventClips[i].createTextField("url_txt",9,0,0,250,30);
eventClips[i].url_txt.htmlText = "<a href=""+child.attributes.url+""></a>";
I can't get the text fields that I am creating dynamically to accept html,I have tried .html = true;Am I really going to have to create my own button and use getURL?I am using flash 8, as2.
I have made a top 10 module for my site that loads variables dynamicly in text fields, it works pretty fine, but i have a problem. The text inside the text fields is scaling on move.I don't want the text inside to scale.Here you have the link:xample of text field creation in my as:
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private function createTextField(x:Number, y:Number, width:Number, height:Number):TextField {
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