I am in the Flash IDE. I do CTRL + F8 to create a new Symbol. I choose "Button" for the type of Symbol. I draw a rectangle, and then place a Text Field on top of the rectangle. I choose Dynamic Text for the Text Field, and I give the Text Field the instance name of "t1". My Symbol is now complete. I drag a copy of it to the Stage. I give this instance of the button Symbol the name "b1". My goal is simple. When the movie plays, whenever the user clicks the button I would like Flash to show a new random number (from 1 to 5) on the button.
How can I change the text of a button instance without affect the other button text? I belive an AS aproach would solve it but I don't know how to do it.
If I have say 7 buttons, each containing text that changes color on rollover using the "Up" "Over" and "Down" keyframes in the buttons' timeline. Is there a simple way to get the button's text to change color when clicked, stay that way, and then change back to the original color once one of the other 6 buttons are clicked?
The only thing I can come up with is writing pages of code for each button that changes the color of every other button regardless of whether it was active.
I created a somewhat custom Spark button by doing the File > New > MXML skin and basing it on spark.components.button. The problem is that I need to add an extra text field to the button component and dynamically change that text...but of course, the property isn't recognized on a Spark Button.
Is there a simple way to add this field to my custom button skin & its property so it can be addressed? If not, is there a simple way to take what I've done and just extend the Spark Button? I can't seem to find any examples that show how to do it without writing it all up in ActionScript.
I want to make some buttons and use the buttons.fla library. The button is inserted and given an instance name. A second button is inserted (same kind) and given a new instance name. But when I am trying to change the label text in one of my buttons the text is changing on the other button as well. I believed they where separate instances?
when it comes to flash but managed to learn enough this past week to get a simple website up (getting laid off so scrambling to get portfolio online!). I have an upload test at lisedupuis.net. In my work section I have a bunch of thumbnails (buttons) for all of the video. Basically, I want to add a text field under the video player which will contain a movie clip name. I want to set it up so that when you mouse over the thumbnails the text changes to the correct movie clip name. I thought maybe creating an event listener might work but can't seem to figure out how to write it. Been looking online and not finding exactly what I need and I am in a huge rush.
I have created my own button class called custom_btn.I created it on the timeline and have exported it for use in ActionScript.I can make an instance of my button, and add it to the screen fine.The button has a dynamic text field that I would like to change the text in. I have tried to give the text field a name on the time line and the access it when I make the button, but I get an error (I think this is because the name isn't being saved to the class).How do I change the text?[code]
bought this template online and it has a menu bar. I managed to change the color of the buttons quite good, I also changed pictures but the problem is I cant change the text in the buttons. There is a button with the text Projects, i need to change it to Company. I checked everywhere, i cant find it in the Actions panel nor in the library. I found some 38x7 pngs having the menu text, but when i changed PROJECTS to COMPANY there it didnt work out. Nothing really changed.
add a button to his website that when pressed will load new text into a field.
Currently, the text is loaded from a .txt file.
The code looks like this ActionScript Code: //Load external file to load text
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Now, i'm not 100% sure how to go about this (been a few months since i last played with flash...) but basically i just want the text that to change from "about_content/about.txt" to "about_ content/abilities.txt" or "about_content/bio.txt" when a button is clicked...
I converted a text string into a class (btnMenu) that has a dynamic textfield object (txtButtonUp) in the "Up" frame. I then dragged the btnMenu object onto the stage and name it btnMenuItem1.
This block of code is in my "Actions" layer and should change the button text to "hello"[code]...
Using the text tool, I have made a Input Textbox with the instance name of voca2_pg and the other one is voca3_pg. It has a text inside: 1 and 11, respectively.Now I made a button that should send info to the input text that when I click the back button, text will change to a lower number, or when I click the next button it will change to a higher number. Example: (they are inside the textbox)
I made a new symbol. The symbol name is button. And it's text is "Start Generator" - So this code:[code]Doesn't seem to change the text of the button to "You clicked it"
I have a button instance called atrium_btn. Currently the button text color is blue, but I want an onRollOver() event to change the button text color to red, but I am having no luck and do not find anything on the internet. In Frame 1 of the main timeline, I tried this with no success:
I am trying to develop a flash site where people can choose from a list of "skins" and when they do, the site color changes. I have a button with the instance name "home". In the "Over" keyframe of this button I have a text box with the instance name of "overText". I can't change the text color
I have used the following code // set the color blue = 0x0000FF; //set object and attibute menuTextStyle = new TextFormat (); menuTextStyle.color = blue; //apply to the text field _root.home.overText.setTextFormat (menuTextStyle);
I have also tried using _root.overText; home.overText at the start of the text field path but these have't worked either.
I have two frames( frame1 and frame2). In frame1 I have a button and in frame2 have a textfield. I want with click button(in frame1) to change the text of textfield (in frame2).
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]...
I'm just doing a test for the moment, where iv'e got a dynamic text field and a button. All i want is when the user presses the button, the numerical value of the number displayed in the text field increases by 1.[code]...
I have a button with text and i want the color of the text to change when you click on the bottun on be that way. How can i do this? the textfeild inside the button have a instancename.
I am currently working on a website project that is mostly intended for Dyslexia disability users. I'm love flash but I can never get around the advance coding, therefore I have struggled to make any effective contribution to my work. At the moment I am trying to change the text/font color using a button similarly to the Background color, but I really can't get my head around it.
I am streaming sound files for a customer with a simple button I created using text, using this stock behaviour code below. I would like the text in the button to change colour while the audio streams and return to its previous state when the audio is finished streaming. Is this possible? And if so, is there anyone who could offer up some sample code to to get me started?
Is it possible to change the value of a dynamic text box inside a button's up/over states? For example, I have a button in my library which has a dynamic text field in both the up and over states. My AS loads XML data and adds the correct number of buttons while filling in the text boxes from the XML data. It seems like this should be possible, but so far I haven't made any progress.
Ive made a button (Convert to symbol > Button)and set that up, then made a new layer for a dynamic text box and gave that the name btn_txt so my plan is to just have instances of that button and be able to change the text through actionscript2this is my code and i thought it would work but nothing happens
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ive traced one of the text fields and it returns with undefined ive also tried using _level0. but that does nothing
I've got a bunch of text boxes that I need to be able to change the text size of with the click of a button. All the text needs to be embedded so I tried to use a tlf text field and target it but to no avail. This is what i have.
ActionScript Code: import flash.events.MouseEvent; fifteen_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, changeSize); function changeSize(evt:MouseEvent):void {
I'm starting with AS3, i have a problem. I have a button, and inside the button i have a dynamic text field. The button is inside of a movieclip, the instance name of it is News, the instance name of the button is collegamento and the instance name of the dynamic text is Testo. So knowing this I'm triyng to change the content of the text using:
News.collegamento.Testo.htmlText="text here";
But Flash is giving me this error:
ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property Testo not found on flash.display.SimpleButton and there is no default value. at
I *know* this is simple. I've read every thread on this board pertaining to this (including senocular's Best Of thread), done everything there and this still doesn't work and I can't see why.
I feel like an idiot even asking, because I've seen the examples and lengthy tutorials.
All I want to do, is change the color of a dynamic text field when you press a button. But I want the name of the field to be a variable.
Now, this is what's there:
1. the variable "_root.expinttype1" is equal to "branch" and is set elsewhere. 1a. There is an existing dynamic field called "branch" on screen.
2. On the button release I set the format:
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Why? I set a dummy variable txt = _root.expinttype1; and even threw it into a text field to verify the data, and it shows "branch", so why doesn't this work?
