ActionScript 2.0 :: Replacing Character Entities With Single Or Double Quotes?
Jul 12, 2007
I've got some text coming in from a database. I get:
' " " instead of single and double quotes.
I'm not sure that all fonts even support left and right double quotation marks (?).
at any rate... is there a relatively simple way to resolve this? maybe scanning the strings for the character entities and replacing them with single or double quotes?
does anyone know if Flash can recognize the ASCII entity number (e.g. ') more readily than the ASCII entity name (e.g. &rsquo?? That may be a moot point as i would have to somehow convert/replace with the entity number anyways..
A question on naming objects and nameing of strings. A string has quotations "I am a string"......Q.1 If i have a movieclip on stage like an empty movieclip and i wanted to refer to the object in my code as below. As an example my movieclip is called mc1.Do i use 'mc1' single quotes....
Im working with some XML that has double quotes around the text that i want to work with. For example- "Miami" and I would like it to look like- Miami This is what i was working with so far (but doesn't work)
I've written some code that takes user input and adds it to some other static text which is then sent to php to be written to a text file. The file is just plain text but has the .xml extension so it can be used as a source of data. Because of the XML content the text has to contain quotes so I am looking for ways to escape the double quote characters with " or using the alternative method of using a mixture of double and single quotes to differentiate content I want in the text file and the quotes that define the boundary of the text string. The code is working but the resultant XML looks wrong, with double quotes being written as " even though I used the double/single quote method, so I'm a bit baffled why this is happening. Here's my code:
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All the double quotes are being written as " which is the escape character instead of the actual character - anyone know why this is happening and how I can fix it?
i've encountered this several times and wondering if there's a solution beyond actually changing the database field values...The problem is that i have string values being pushed to flash (via xml) with html character codes in them like:
"natronp&apos:s funland" when ideally, i would get: "natronp's funland"
Anyway to replace these in flash that i've missed? Otherwise it seems i would need a pretty heavy-duty find/replace actionscript script/class to make this happen!
I'm using a script whoch load text from xml and format it with html and css tags, everything goes fine except I can't integrate the single quotes ('), it's never displayed, something I get unrecognized square symbol, sometimes I just got nothing.[code]...
I'm trying to read some data in from a sql source, some of which contains double quotes embedded in the text. I know I can strip the doublequotes, but don't want to go that route if I can avoid it. I've tried replacing to double quotes with hex codes before passing the text via parameter to my flash file, but the text string always cuts off at the hex code, the same as if the double quote were present in the string. For example:This is a "text" stringreplace double quotes with hex: This is a x22textx22 stringesults when read into flash: This is a <remainder is dropped>Yet if I type the same text string in a variable in flash, the string displays the double quotes properly:
I am trying to include double quotes in a string but logic says it would just close the string. I know in html you would use something like ". In flash...I havent the slightest.Anyone know how to go about this?
I'm bringing in data from .csv file as a string and then slicing it up into and array so I can apply the values to some text fields. For whatever reason it is starting and ending the string with which as we know is the new line character in as3, I would like to remove these from the string but I'm not really sure what the code is to target them. So far I have figured out the code to remove the instances I was getting of double double quotes by doing this: (this is written in Flex btw)
I know that datagrid can detect changes of single mouse click with
//add listener myDataGridList.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, myDataGridListChange); public function myDataGridListChange(e:Event):void{ trace(myDataGridList.selectedItem.id); }
but can they detect double mouse click?My purpose of doing this is that, if the user double click on a datagrid row, I need it to return me value of myDataGridList.selectedItem.id, so that I'm able to continue to proceed to the next stage of my game.
I have been programming in actionscript for three months and I am very new to a lot of the details. I was programming in java in which there is an important difference between 'hello' and "hello". So my question is: In actionScript is it the same to use 'Hello' and "Hello". If not what are the differences?
I am currently trying to modify a Polaroid Flash photo gallery template. Currently it is setup so that when the user double clicks on the thumbnail, the photo enlarge, when they double click again on it, it closes it down. I'm trying to get it so that they only have to single click to close the enlarged photo down, as supposed to double click. I have found the section of code that controls this, I've tried playing with the numbers, but I still cannot get it to work:
I have a couple of Sprites on my screen and I want to write a single event handler to handle the double click on any of those Sprites. The following approach works for every event type except DOUBLE_CLICK:
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To make it work, because in my application I will have lots of Sprites. In my opinion, a single event and the target property are more efficient than hundreds of event listeners. Am I right or should add event listeners to every Sprite?
I want to add a Single Clcik event and Double click event both on the same movie clip in as3 , its working but call both the event same time so how to fix it
I created a movie clip layer with five cars in it. Each car is a separate button that when clicked plays a sound and shows an animation. If the car is clicked again, the sound and animation disappear. If another car (car B) is clicked while the first car (car A) is playing the sound/showing the animation, car A's sound and animation disappear, but it takes a second click for car B's sound/animation to play/appear.
How can I write the code so when you click on car B while car A is playing, car A's sound stops and animation disappears and car B's sound and animation play and appear right away?
I am taking feed files from an XML, so in order to make those not throw out errors when reading the XML, I convert all entities to their numerical equivalents and write them as "�" for example.This then gets imported into a database, so that it now has "�" in the database.
I then take the text in the database and use that to generate a new XML file, which still contains the "".Flash then reads this XML file and displays the text.Now I think every character is fine (haven't seen all of them, but seen many), including "" (), however, for some reason, the ï symbol refuses to work () and it just displays and not the symbol.
I have an issue trying to send out a url with value name pairs in different languages. Does anyone know if there is a function in flash to convert the characters to html entities before hand?
I'm stuck adding some links to a flash map that I didn't create myself and am having trouble getting my HTML to show properly in my XML. I've found some resources that I thought would help, trouble is that the person who set this up used what looks to be a different method than anything I can find.
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I'm trying to get the HTML to work in the desc field, I've used CDATA tags which didn't yield any results for me.
What I want to build is a photography site using flash for the thumbnail pages and slideshow, but have the navigation buttons their own separate flash entities. Can these separate flash button entities influence the thumbnail flash entity? The purpose of the multiple flash entities is so that I can embed it in my html and use css to position them so that it stretches or shrinks to fit a browser window depending on screen size. Or is that a bad idea?
I'm currently developing a Flex game which is a kind of table and cards game. Thinking about developing other games using entities from this one, I chose for creating my entities decoupled from the game and even from other game entities. As a result, I'm currently using events for communication between my game entities.
Game entities, in my case, refers for example a player hand component which can receive a card, or send a card to another unknown component by a custom requesting and dealing events. For instance, the same can happens to a deck of cards holder component. This approach appeared to be a good designer in the beginning, but after some time, my game controller class has a lot of event handler functions which started looking bad for me.
My current idea is to create a game event manager coupled with my game controller for handling events and cleaning the controllers code. Finally, I'm not sure about my design decision exposed above, so I would like to know about you folks which communication design would be indicated for this kind of a game.
