I have been trying for days to control the width of a movie clip that has editable text in it without causeing it to scale. I would like the text box to get bigger and the text inside to wrap.
Anyone know how to do this?
Is there a way to set the width of a text field equal to the width of the text in it?
View 1 RepliesIs there a function or property or better way to do what the following code do?
var width:int = 20
while (textField.defaultTextFormat.size > 1 && textField.width > width) {
textField.defaultTextFormat.size--
}
I am creating a nav in flex that pulls in buttons dynamically from xml. THe problem i am having is setting the button width to the text width. currently the buttons are all the same width and if the text is larger then it just cuts off. I've tried a few ways of doing this:Setting button width to 100%On creation of the button try to set the width of the button to the text programmatically. Something like evt.target.width = evt.target.textWidth;
View 1 RepliesWhat code can I use to shrink a piece of text in a dynamic text field to fit within a certain height and width.
View 1 RepliesWe are trying to get a Rectangle that represents the exact* boundary of the text in a TextField.
*Exact as possible.
Take this image:
Using my current knowledge, I can retrieve the blue rectangle above like so:
var textRect:Rectangle = new Rectangle(
field.x,
field.y,
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Even if I fill a small section with the color I'm looking for I still get a zero-sized rectangle:
bmd.fillRect(new Rectangle(0, 0, 30, 30), textField.textColor);
Is there a way I can stop a single word splitting over two lines when putting dynamic text into a fixed width, multiline text field?I have a simple method of checking if there are more lines than words and then running a while loop to reduce the font size until there are the same amount or less lines than words. But this doesnt always work, if say the final word of three is quite short and the second word splits over two lines then I still have 3 words and 3 lines.
View 3 Repliesif I have a dynamic textbox named 'myText' and have this kind of code..
Code:
myText.text = "I want to stretch the text box dependent on the text";
At the moment all I can see is 'I' - I want the textbox to stretch based on how much text is in it, and not to go to a new line - So the one line just keeps gettin bigger.
I have built a very simple Flash gallery in CS4 using AS2. It calls the images from an XML file and works great. The problem is that the captions underneath the images are in a fixed width text box. They look fine underneath horizontal images, but I want to have the text shift in when a vertical image is loaded, and is narrower.
View 3 RepliesI used classic text before and this code works.
var myFormat:TextFormat = dtb.getTextFormat();
while(dtb.textWidth>=dtb.width)
{
myFormat.size = int(myFormat.size) - 1;
dtb.setTextFormat(myFormat);
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but I need to switch the text boxes over to TLFText because we are going multi-language, and this function no longer works, I have no idea how to do the same thing with TLFText?
Does anyone know how to set the width of a text field so it dynamically changes to the width of whatever text is inserted into it?
View 1 RepliesI have a dynamic text box on top of a moviclip of a rectangle. I need the width of the rectangle movieclip to adjust according to the width of characters in the dynamic text box.Is there a way to determine the width of the characters in the dynamic text box?i am having trouble figuring this out
View 2 RepliesI am using a TextField in Flash CS2, because I need to know the width of the actual text for positioning purposes. However from some odd reason it doesn't always work when the browser is Google Chrome.
View 2 RepliesSo i looked around and couldn't find a stright answer on this. How do i set the width of a dynamic text field and add wrapping?
stop();
for (var i=0; i<thisXML; i++) {
_root.createTextField("Text_Field"+i, i, i*250, 0, 0, 0);
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I've got these dynamic text fields that have their autosize and multiline set to true. I assign a width when I create the textfields, but that doesn't seem to have an effect. Using an interval, i cycle through an array that provides strings to populate the text fields.
The textfields seem to take the width of the first strings that populate them, and then stay that size, regardless of the amount of text in each new string.[code]...
how do i find out the width of a text box and set a variable with that value?
View 1 RepliesI'm updating an old Flash file and I'm pulling some dynamic text into a text box, but I'm having a really, really hard time trying to get it to resize the width so it always fills the box, which is 170 wide.
myText.textWidth=170;
myText.width=170;
myText._width=170;
none of it seems to work.
I'm building a dynamic menu and am struggling to give the same distance to the text fields with different widths. When I turn on the "autoSize TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT" some text fields are overlapped, and, aligned when I turn off, but, they all get the same size (100px by default - dont know why), which makes the distance between them unequal.
Here is the code:
Actionscript Code:
// main timeline objectvar index:Object=this;// New Xml Objectvar fileXml:XML;// check how many menu items we have.var totalMenuItems:Number;// Main Menu Propertiesvar spacing:int=5;var menuItem_txt:TextField;// New URL Requestvar xmlLoader:URLLoader=new URLLoader(new
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I've had a good look around but couldn't find anything that directly solves my problem.There are several posts which are along the right lines, but I can't get my head around it in order to fix the issue.I need to automatically resize the text so that it doesn't exceed the width of the button. The maximum length for my sized text appears to be 13 characters before it will become too large.The program starts by dynamically creating several buttons, filling them with the title and description as set in an XML document.
To add the text I have this code:
var tform:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
tform.size = 20;
[code].....
I want to create a text box with a fixed width that will fit itself to its current text. So I went ahead and wrote this simple application[code]...
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to calculate how WIDE to make my button, based on the text that it will contain, and when I try to google for how to calcuate something as simplistic as the WIDTH OF SOME TEXT, I go cross-eyed just trying to wade through apparently nonsensical esoteric counter-intuitive voodoo. how I would write a function like this:
public function HowWideWouldThisTextBeIfItWereInThisButton(Text:String,Container:Button):int {
...
}
I have a library MovieClip Class that consists solely of a dynamic textfield contained in a MovieClip. I want to instantiate this MC, populate the textField with text, get the width of the resulting text and, if the width is less than a predefined MIN_WIDTH value, append more text. When the width is equal to or greater than my MIN_WIDTH value, add this MovieClip class to the display list. My question is, does anyone know if its possible to retrieve the length of text in a textField using Textlinemetrics BEFORE the textField has been added to the display list?
View 2 RepliesI used to know how to do this, so, I KNOW it's possible, but I can't figure it out again. I'm altering the width of my TextField by setting the width property but that warps the text. I want to alter the width of the text field without altering the way the font looks (obviously). I believe it has something to do with autoText or some such idiocy (why would I ever want to warp my text?!) but I just can't recall.
myField.width = 100; //
If the original width was 50 this simply stretches the field to 100, rather than adding 50 pixels into which characters can be drawn.
I am using this script (3.0) to set the text of a dynamic text field...
stop();
my_Btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, onMouseover);
function onMouseover(event:MouseEvent):void
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How do I set the height and width of the text?
I have a dynamic text box on my stage that is 400px wide. The text box is being populated with flashvars data from an HTML file and auto-sizes (myTextBox.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT) so it will display all content by expanding when the text spans over 400px. But when I trace 'myTextBox.width', it always returns '400'and when I trace 'myTextBox.textWidth' it always returns '0'no matter how much text I push into it through the flashvars.
This is because the trace is only tracing the previewed swf in Flash which has no ties whatsoever to the HTML file and flashvars.Therefore, when previwing the swf, my text box is always empty.The only way to see the content populating the text box is when actually launching the browser with the swf embedded in it.Because of this I cannot seem to be get flash to 'do things' based on the new width/textWidth values of my text box after it has been populated with the flashvars data from the HTML file.How can I get flash to detect the new width/textWidth of my text box after it has been populated by the flashvars data from the HTML file?
I'm building a dynamic menu and am struggling to give the same distance to the text fields with different widths. When I turn on the "autoSize TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT" some text fields are overlapped, and, aligned when I turn off, but, they all get the same size (100px by default - dont know why), which makes the distance between them unequal.
Here is the code:
ActionScript Code:
// main timeline object
var index:Object=this;
// New Xml Object
[Code].....
How to get a text string to fill a particular width i.e. with a specific character until it reaches the specified width or number of characters?
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to load som external text width loadVars. everything's working just fine with the example below, but i want to loop out da ****...
var loadText:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {[code].....
I'd like to restrict the amount a user can type into a textbox based on the width of an existing textbox on the stage. I played around with the max chars but when you type something like a 'W' it is considerably wider than something like a 'i' (current font is 19px vs 4px wide). I was playing around with .textWidth, but wasn't sure how to use that value to restrict the textbox.
View 4 Replieshow to get a text string to fill a particular width i.e. with a specific character until it reaches the specified width or number of characters?
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