ActionScript 2.0 :: Text Handling For "News" Database Entry?
Jan 21, 2004
I've created a full flash site for a band. I need it to be easy for them to add news and press entries.
I know that I can do this with a database, but I want to do something with the entry text - like, when they have a link specified in the text (how can I do that, btw), when they submit the entry, flash/PHP/whatever should change it to the appropriate HTML code, and also change the color of the link (again with HTML). Only then will the information be displayable on the main flash site.
I am working on the news ticker module (AS2) where I have to fetch news from xml and populate that news headings into four text fields and these 4 headings will stay for a while and fade until last record. this process will continue.
I have a database all set up and working between flash and SQL .The set up allows me to add entries and receive data.. all this works great..The only problem I'm having is that when I want to update the score when clicking on a button..I can only send or receive data, and what I actually want to do is overwrite the current entry with a new entry to update the score..
i want to intertwine php, MySql and flash. so i can make a flash movie display text that is in the sql database and a php script to change the database, php > sql = i can do but sql > flash = i can't do..i want it so the sql data show's in a text box in the flash movie...
The cursor is blinking in the correct field but it will not allow any text to be typed into the field. Is there something in the code that is causing this problem?
Making an XML news reader based off of senocular Squirrel XML news.
I'm using Fuse and wanted to target the dynamic text and or background portions of the headline section.
However, this movie clip is attached to the menu_mc so I'm stumped as to what I should exactly target for the fuse sequence (or any mx.transition/zigo engine based code-tweening process for that matter).
I've attached the files in a .zip for people to look at (and possibly conquer my problem!
i have an app i'm making in flex and I'd like to have a button's text change to a random entry within an xml when the button is clicked....the xml is in the assets folder and is titled games.xml. I would like to have a random game be selected when the button is pressed.here is games.xml
I posted a question like this yesterday but I was not clear in the description....i have an app i'm making in flex and I'd like to have a button's text change to a random entry within an xml when the button is clicked....the xml is in the assets folder and is titled games.xml. I would like to have a random game name be selected from the XML when the button is pressed.[code]...
having a really frustrating problem. I have a file, originally penned by anoother developer in CS3 and resaved as CS4. It uses datagrids extensively. When clicking on a cell in a data grid it now fails to render the font (or a blinking carat for that matter). When you click off and finish the edit the text you enter is there, of course that isn't much use because you can't see what you're typing.I haven't changed how these grids work in anyway, and it was working in CS4 before *mysteriously* stopping.Have tried setting the font to one that is embedded in the setStyle of the custom renderer the cell is using but it makes no difference - everything renders fine when not editing but disappears when editing.
I wanted to add a second news box under the first one and have it pull the first two news items in the xml file and have it displayed on the movie. Currently it is putting the first news item in both news boxes.ction script so that the second box is actually the second "<news> tag". From the tutorial I removed the <info> <author> and <comment> tags.
i use FBML for the FB application.I have a flash and the flash suppose to call a javascript on the page. I read so many websites trying to figure it out but still having problem.Here is the Webpage with the javascript:
when i test, the flash loaded. The code goes through everything and show "SENT" in the flash text box. However, it doesn't seem like it is calling the javascript and change the text in the HTML page.is there something wrong I did? i try the ExternalInteface.call method but doesn't work neither. ALSO, when i run it in FireFox, not error popup.however, when i run it in IE, I got this:
VerifyError: Error #1033: Cpool entry 36 is wrong type.
ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable FBJS is not defined.
Do you know Kirupa's News Editor tutorial?O.K. I have problems with text formatting. I need "title" in a different font than "body".Here is the part of original code:
ShowNews = function(news_xml){ if (!news_xml.firstChild.hasChildNodes()){ content_txt.text = "No news available.";
I want to create a news bulliten in my website. I'm talking about a small 200*200 pixel box, where the user see's news coming from down to up. Of cours i can use a primitive way editing the flash file whenever News are fed but i want to do this just by editing a text file which will contain the news and the flesh box will automaticly take the text and animate it.
My text animation scrolls from left to right, which is OK. I want to keep it simple but change it up little. How do I get the text to go right to left?
AS3 Example
mask = customMask; var my_str:String = " Ad hoc ad loc and quid pro quo "; function addUm():void { my_str = my_str.charAt(my_str.length - 1) + my_str.slice(0, my_str.length - 1);
I've made a horizontal news ticker that scrolls a string from right to left using substring method and by changing the alignment. This works OK but I would like the text to start displaying again before it disappears completly off the left of the screen. I've attached the fla and swf.
I'd like to add a second news ticker text field right beneath the first one that loads its headlines from a different XML file. So my question is this -- (not very XML savy mind you...) How would I need to adjust the AS code to be able to have both text fields going at the same time? What parts of the AS code can be omitted? (to not have redundant functions) Is there anything I should be aware of that might be cancelling out the second text field from running? At this point, I can get only one of the tickers working at a time -- the other just sits empty.
I need help related to kirupa's News Ticker Tutorial. I want the text to be fade in like it's fade out. Currently the text does not come with fade in effect. You can see the news ticker here: [URL]
I have this news scroller for work - Vertical member (160 X 600) And the idea is that it has 3 text fields (Headlines). These fields are lined up vertically (one at the top of the scroller, one at the middle, and one at the bottom.). I load them dynamically from XML, and after about 5 seconds, I have them all move up. (the top one goes up the top, and comes back from the bottom, the other two move up). The problem is that I am trying to center justify them. When they're loaded I can center justify them, using this code:
Code: MovieClip.prototype.centerFunction = function() { format = new TextFormat(); format.align = "center"; _root.news2.headline2_txt.setTextFormat(format); _root.news3.headline3_txt.setTextFormat(format); _root.news1.headline1_txt.setTextFormat(format); }
Now, when they are first center justified by the code, they look slightly off, and once they move they arrange themselves correctly.
I've got a news-style scroller that has audio clips and text loaded in via an XML file. The text works fine and I can read the string of the mp3 file to play, but if I actually hit play, it only plays the LAST listed mp3 in the array instead of the one that should be playing.
What's happening is when you click the play button, it only plays the last song named in the XML file, and doesn't link to the correct url, but all the text is in the correct places.
I'm creating a vertical news scroller, that will eventually load in from an external text file and then just scroll the text in a movie clip vertically. I have this working but I have a couple of questions.
1. As the text reaches the end of the scroll I want it to start to fade out, I've added a IF statement to do this but it doesn't seem to fire. Why is this? 2. Even though I don't have any easing the scroll seems to slow down as its nearing the end of the animation, do you know why this is happening?
Code: import gs.TweenLite; import gs.easing.*; var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(0,1); myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, scrollNow); myTimer.start(); [Code] .....
I am trying to something very simple but I can't find an option to do that. I have a button that updates the ElementFormat, it can take care of bold and italic but the problem is underline. I can't find an option to set it as "underlined" or "not underlined".
I am writing a class that will handle text input using a keyboard event attached to the stage (or it could be attached to a movieclip or something else). It will have many applications, but to give you a picture of something it might do, it could be used to input "cheat codes" where you type something and it updates a string variable. Then when the string matches some code it calls some function (and in this instance it may be annoying or impossible to use a textfield for this).It is pretty easy to take all the keycodes and convert them into text (or program whatever function they serve, like backspace), but it is also relatively time consuming. Is there an easier way, or does anyone know of someone elses class out there that does something similar?
I'm making a very simple news ticker that uses XML to load four items: copy text, an image, date and a URL. The script was pieced together from tutorials and a bit of self-teaching, so I know it's probably not great. The AS is pasted below. Everything loads just fine, but the button script returns an "undefined" error. I assume this is because the item is no longer found in the array, but I'm not entirely sure. I also think it may be that the loadMovie method isn't working well with a specific item in the array. Also the link does not work. *Note* I know there are probably more advanced ways to tackle this but I'd like to keep this at my learning level so I can grow with it. :-)
The problem I'm having with my simple flash program is, the array doesn't seem to care what I put in my text field it just generate one item. The idea is that you will get the number of oranges on the screen that you put in the text field. Once you click them all you will goto the win frame.
I am trying to something very simple but I can't find an option to do that. I have a button that updates the ElementFormat, it can take care of bold and italic but the problem is underline. I can't find an option to set it as "underlined" or "not underlined".
I've got a bunch of quotes I want to stick into a text file and access through actionscript for a website (such as Spring quotes popping up when the clock is checked for what day it is).
While I can stick one quote in one text file,
I was wondering if there is a way to stick multiple quotes in one text file and pull them for display one at a time?
I want to create a Flex 3 application running in Adobe Air that accesses an SQLite database and I need to keep this database in sync with an SQL server 2005 database running a website.Is this something that Flex supports or is it going to be a custom script? Also, has anybody done anything like this?
Edit: The synchronisation can be done on a daily basis rather than real time. The data will be read only from a front end perspective with a CMS to do updates on the website.
I have researched this issue all over and most people say use the .refresh() method to update a datagrid after updating or adding a new record. This does not do anything. So, my issue is this. I have a mySQL database hosted I am connecting via PHP, I have 1 mxml file and 2 php files (I know I can use just 1 but I am learning and this was easier for me to use for troubleshooting). The issue is no matter what I change on the datagrid the update does not show on the datagrid unless I close out of IE and reopen it. I can refresh or open the page in another window and the update does not show. I have to exit entirely and restart in order for any updates or additions to show.Here is my licenseTracker.mxml
