I created a scrolling text box loading an external file, and I added 2 buttons with this code:
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The problem with this code is that you have to click a lot to see the text, because it goes line by line.how to edit this code to make it easier for user to scroll down and up?
I know how to load external text files in AS3 but I want the user to be able to do it from within my excited swf file. The obvious way to do this is to load the text file using a string from a dynamic text field (e.g: "myfile/myTextFeild.txt") but i want it to be more user friendly.If you click file open in Microsoft word, for example, you get the user friendly open box where you can find the file you want to load by browsing through your hard-drive.
View 1 RepliesI have a project that I'm working on where I want to allow a user to control some text formatting for a Flash interactive via external XML. They want to create links and bold text in paragraphs and such.Create dynamic text field on the stageGo to library, create font symbol for HelveticaNeue fontSet dynamic text field on stage to font symbol for Helvetica Neue Turn on embedding for dynamic text fieldSet HTML formatting to true on dynamic text fieldWrite out ActionScript for filling dynamic text field e.g. <b>THIS FIELD:</b> + someVariableFromXMLPublish movieBold text disappears.What am I doing wrong here? I need to make sure font symbols are present and dynamic text fields are set to embedded fonts to ensure PC/Mac font display for dynamic content for oddball non-standard fonts.Why doesn't this work? When I create the font symbol and set it to bold, STILL doesn't work.
View 7 Repliesok how do you find out if the user is scrolling the mouse?? like you can tell where the user points there mouse, with a onRelease, is there like an on scroll also i am gonna start upa flash web site bussines thingy, any tips on how much i should charge for a web site? i might cahrge between 50dollars to 200 dollars depending on how tricky it is, is this good or bad?
View 2 RepliesI have a strip of thumbnails in an MC that is quite long. I am masking this long strip of thumbnails so only a few can be seen at a time. I want the user to be able to move this strip to the right and left based on where their mouse is.But a lot of the solutions I've seen have used the stage width to achieve this...however, I only want the strip to move if they are over the 'active' area.....basically if they are over the mask area.And then when it reaches the end of the strip
View 1 Repliesis it possible in actionscript for the user to type in a box from a keyboard like a user input text box..
View 3 RepliesIs there some ways to develop a SEO friendly flash site? I read in an article that flash sites are not SEO friendly one.
View 2 RepliesI'm loading in a smil file (follows the xml format) and it won't let me select properties via name (eg. xml.body) instead I can only access the data by xml.child(0).I've tried xml.child('body'), but still nothing. Anyone know a quick workaround? I would like to be able to access xml.head.(@name=='rtmpPlaybackbase') and the XMLList xml.body.switch.video.[code]
View 1 RepliesMy 2D game has a simple snow effect, but I would like to improve the framerate performance during this effect.I animate 500 sprites with a particle system, using a white 2x2 .gif image.I animate to whole pixel values only.I turn off smoothing and image compression.I don't rotate or scale.No calculations, just modifying the sprite's x values every frame.I've heard some people discuss bitmap caching.
View 0 RepliesSo I'm making a drawing app that uses flash. I want to be able to export my drawing into an illustrator friendly format.
I'm thinking I will need to record the shapes drawn with a "history" and then export those either via text/xml/bytearray.
I'm loading in a smil file (follows the xml format) and it won't let me select properties via name (eg. xml.body) instead I can only access the data by xml.child(0). I've tried xml.child('body'), but still nothing. Anyone know a quick workaround? I would like to be able to access xml.head.(@name=='rtmpPlaybackbase') and the XMLList xml.body.switch.video
The smil xml is this:
Code:
<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/SMIL20/Language">
<head>
<meta name="title" content="myStream"/>
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I've made a Flash site and I want it to be optimized for search engine.What I need is, for every query on Google for this organization name I want respective Flash page to be displayed.
View 1 RepliesWe're currently developing a flex web app and our build situation is far from ideal. At present we're (as in individual developers) just building using FlashBuilder and deploying manually. The programmers are currently screaming bloody murder for two reasons, though:The lack of CI is like going back to the stone ageWe don't much care for FlashBuilder(Note: We're only using FlashBuilder because it was the easiest way to set up a flex project in conjunction with Away3d and get it building / rendering correctly -- it's a stopgap solution).As a predominately .NET development shop, we're used to doing continuous integration as well as continuous deployment. Ideally, we'd like to get something comparable to this for our flash projects without tying ourselves to a particular IDE.
Requirements:
The build process must be:
.. runnable via the commandline
.. runnable on both developer and CI build machines (and certainly not requiring an IDE!)
.. preferably as IDE-independent as possible (pragmatism will kick in though; if this causes a lot of friction we'll just pick one).
.. able to run on Windows (we develop using Windows)
We don't mind a touch of duplication or a few manual steps (e.g. tarting up the build scripts if we add a new project via an IDE, or generating one configuration from another if tools exist), but the less duplication / maintenance required the better.
i need a basic form that maybe has 4 variables and then once submitted will write to an xml file.
i understand how to display the xml, but i need a client friendly form to write to it.
I have been googling for hours and have not yet found a solution to this problem.currently, I retrive the data from the twitter xml fileeverything works fine, my date format shows this: Fri Aug 12 03:25:40 +0000 2011But I want it to show this: 17 days agohere's my flash as3 code:
var myXMLLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
//myXMLLoader.load(new URLRequest("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=arunshourie"));
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I have a dynamic text filed scrolling with a drag button on a track or the mousewheel. What I am trying to do now is have the scroll button and track not visible if the content is smaller than the text field.
ActionScript Code:
//this if statement not working as should. button and track are always invisible.
//txt is text field name
if (txt.textHeight < txt.height){[code]......
Noob question, I hope. I need to create scrolling text areas with rich text format content. I know I can use the textArea component and set the htmlText property but converting all of my RTF to HTML is gonna be a major pain in the @$$. I keep getting into trouble thinking what's mindlessly easy in Director/Lingo is gonna be reasonably simple in Flash/AS3, I hoping this is just my inexperience with Flash getting in the way. Is there an easier way? I thought of embedding a PDF document but apparently that's not an option in Flash either (note: I know how to link a PDF doc, I need this text to display and scroll within the application, not just pop a new window on top).
View 6 RepliesI have a design. Now I want to add text to a certain area of two ovals on an arc. How do you do text that will arc to match two ovals.
View 1 RepliesI have a simple text box with a UIScrollBar component added to it.
The text box properties are set to "input text, multi line.
The problem is when I want to change just one line of the text to a bold or a different color, the whole text box contents changes. I've tried different property setting for the text box itself with no luck.
I've created a form-like input to receive user input in the form of text in a frame. Now, I would like to pass that input into an external text file. I hope to get help to implement this. Let's assume that this app will be only used locally and not over the web.
View 0 RepliesI'm wondering if purepdf has the ability to save formatted text from a user-inputted text field. If so, how is this achieved? From what I understand, purepdf is basically iText, and I believe iText has the ability to parse HTML and save formatted text into a PDF. Does purepdf have that same functionality that I can tap into and plug in 'textfield.htmlText' somewhere?
View 4 RepliesI am trying to set up a listener when the user changes the text in a text box.I've tried:
Code:
myTextField.addEventListener(TextEvent.TEXT_INPUT, textChange);
public function textChange(event:TextEvent):void
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When I attempt to compile either way I get: '1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: TextEvent.'I've got import fl.events.*;
I have this code that basically reads some text from a txt file and then scrolls it across my flash document. I want it to loop, so when it gets to the end of the text, it replays it.
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I have a simple text field that is read only and it's very long, so I just want to use a scrollbar on the right-hand side. I dragged a UIScrollbar component to this text area, I lined it up, same height, and even named the text area as the scrollbar's target, but when I compile the swf, I get a blank scrollbar next to the text and 2 other scrollbars off the the right of the text!!! I also tried adding the scrollbar via code with the same results.
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to create a simple scrolling text box for a web site and am following this web tutorialI'm using flash cs4 ad this relates to cs3. I seem unable to locate the instance name box anywhere.
View 1 RepliesI need to learn how to create scrolling text. I�ve looked around on the web but I can�t seem to find a good tutorial on it. The text does not need to be dynamic, I must be able to choose different fonts and colors for the text, and most importantly create a custom scrolling bar.
View 2 Repliesmake a text scrollbar NOT using the UIScrollbar! I have been trying to figure this out for a while.very tutorial I have used has had something wrong in the directions or something I am not looking to do. Just let me know which ActionScript to use 2 or 3.
View 2 RepliesI can get the text to scroll fine in Flash. But when I select the up arrow to go to the top of the scroll box there is a extra large gap. How do I set the script so the text stops right at the top?
View 2 Replies My boss wanted me to make scrolling images and captions for each image when you rollover them. I made the images scroll by making each image a button and masking those images. I can't seem to get the captions right though.The dynamic text box I am using is inside the mask (because I cannot figure out how to put it on the main time line and make it work). The rollovers work when the dynamic text box is in the mask, but when I scroll through the images, the text scrolls too and some of the captions you cannot even see. The web site is below if you need to see what I am talking about.http:[url].......
I figured that what I need to do is put the dynamic text box on the main time line and not in the mask. But I can't seem to get that to work.Here is the code I am putting on the actual image buttons. My text box instance name is rOver and yes, I did embed the fonts.
on (rollOver) {
rOver.text ="caption";
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Does anyone now sample tutorial for creating horizontal text scrolling using actionscript 3 like on [url]....
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