ActionScript 3.0 :: Display New Text Based On Pc Date?
Jul 5, 2009
how to get some text to change based on the date of the users pc.What I am trying to do is when the swf file is opened a header section displays a different quote for each day of the year.The list of quotes will be stored in the AS3 and not pulled from an external file.I have worked how to dtermine the current date. The bit I can't seem to get my head around is if I give each quote a variable reference how do get quote 54 to be displayed on the 54th day of the year?
so here's what I'd like to do. I'd like to create an action that, when it's a specific day, a dynamic textbox displays a specific text. In other words, if today is th 24th of December then I'd like the dynamic textbox to say "merry christmas" or something like that...HOWEVER I need to set this actionscript up so that it reads 8 different days and the dynamic textbox holds 8 different values. How do I do this? I'm having a LOT of trouble with this..and I'm on a deadline
Ok, so here's what I'd like to do. I'd like to create an action that, when it's a specific day, a dynamic textbox displays a specific text. In other words, if today is th 24th of December then I'd like the dynamic textbox to say "merry christmas" or something like that...HOWEVER I need to set this actionscript up so that it reads 8 different days and the dynamic textbox holds 8 different values.
How do I do this? I'm having a LOT of trouble with this..and I'm on a deadline, so if anyone has advice PLEASE let me know!
I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to display a specific image based on the current date? for example, say I have something for sale 7 seven days, and I want to create an animation of images with numbers, countdown from 7 to 1, and have it stop on the number of days left.
The only place i've seen something like this is here
on the right side, just above the dark grey bar, a little calendar flash loads in and animates.
I'm currently working in Flash mx 2004 and am creating a version of 'what happened in history today'. So my final layout will have the following iobjects.
Heading: 'current date' Title: 'On this day in History' Text box: Which displays the right description from a text file. history.txt Image box: which displays a pic related to the current date.
I know basic Flash but have been playing around for ages am having real trouble getting things to work correctly. The main priority is to get the text loaded based on the current date. I have an images folderwhere the pictures are stored with files names related to date i.e. 14feb.jpg and my history.txt file is set out with a line for each date. i.e., 14feb=Valentines Day etc.
I have an mx:DateField in my Flex UI that has a formatString="dd.mm.yyyy" attached to it. However, the initial value for that field may not be in the format specified/defined for the DateField (due to legacy reasons). So, currently, if I just set that value (text) on the DateField, the field is shown empty. I think because it fails to accept the value in a format different than what's configured.
I'm creating a backend using flash, php and mysql. The problem i'm having is that i have 2 dynamic text fields on the stage that i want it to display their content based on the page i am. My txtTitle is showing both mysql rows together like this: Aboutabout_content=About from MySQL Here is my coding:
I need to set a chart to start at midnight of the current day and end just before midnight of the next day I'm trying to do something like this:minChartDate = currentDate.fullYear,currentDate.month,currentDate.date,0,0,0,0;
where currentDate:Date; is the day currently selected. I'm getting an implicit coercion error between the Number to Date type, as if currentDate.fullYear is a Date, but according to the documentation it should be a number. Or is my syntax defining this incorrect? Also wondering if there's a simpler way to get the min and max dates than this (the reason I am setting this is so that it starts at midnight rather than at the first data point in the series).
I'm also getting a weird error 'maximum' values of type Date cannot be represented in text.. it said I need a Date type object for the minimum and maximum so I'm really not sure what it's talking about...
I was wondering if there's a way of having an action based on the date. I have looked on the forums for a while and have found a good bit of information regarding specific time like hours and minutes. However I was wondering if there was a way of saying "if the date is = to December 14 2005 then load this movie"
how to use actionscript to load 1 external swf into a mc for everyday throughout a year. I want to make 365 independent swf files that load in into a particular mc based on the current date. And it'll call it based on the users system clock. Can it be done?
How would I load external images based on dates? The intent is to automate loading of date-specific clipart to a container. An example would be arrival of Spring (3/20) would load the sun.wmf.
I have a Health Tips flash animation that i want to show one tip every day.I created an xml with 365 items one for each day. Now i want to link my flash with xml in order to get the correct tip for the specific day.I created the XML using two methods.. which one do you think is the best?
<data> <Tip date="28/03/2012" title="Start your day with breakfast." description="Breakfast fills your empty tank to get you going after a long night without food. "/>[code]....
I need to code my flash movie to get it working, but unfortunately don't know how.I started with some basic stuff:
I want to display images based on the date. Then it changes to the next one. For example for March it would be picture: img01.jpg and for April I would like the flash movie to automatically load the next picture: img02.jpg.
Anyone has experience to display the last log date from the mysql database to the flash?
i did it with the username - that was displaying but not the last_log_date anyone can profide suggestion or an easier method/solution? sample script would be coolz.
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i read the data in actionscript with username_name and then display the data into the textfield. this worked for the username only but not for the last log date..
found that code to display html format text to dynamic textfield in as3:
var url:String = "http://edeejay.dyndns.org:8000/currentsong?sid=1"; var loadit:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); loadit.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
how to display seconds in my Date/Time display. right now I have Year, month, day, Hours and minutes displaying. But my Seconds are showing up undefined.
Here is my code...
function howlong(arg) { if (length(arg)==1) { arg = "0" + arg;
By default, when you visit a website that is made entirely in Flash and there is a Tme and Date movie clip feature... you know... it gets the current time and date of your computer so you're actually seeing your own time, right? What I've always wanted to do is when you visit a website that is made entirely in Falsh, and you have a Time and Date movie clip that tells the creators current time and the current date instead of just getting the values of your computer time and displaying your own. I'm in the Philippines so I want the visitors of my site to view what time and date is it in the Philippines.
How do I make the date and time if its less than 10 to display a zero in front so for example like four o six and and six seconds looks like this 04:06:06 instead of this 4:6:6. Also how do you do this with a date I want a date have only 2 digits for the year and if the month and day are less than 10 to display a zero in front of them...
I retrieve a date and time form a mysql db through php and display it on my AS3 page in a dynamic txtfield but it also displays the xml tags, so it looks like this: <date>Saturday 14.10 Time: 13.00</date> How do I display this without the tags?
I have a php page that sends xml compiled from data in a mysql table to my swf. The swf is actually an auction and I need to load in the' end time' of that item and do a date comparision for a countdown.
So what I'm asking for, in a nutshell, is for the best way to load in a date from a database in such a way that it can be used for date comparisons?
The mysql field is a datetime field. I can modify the format in php to whatever you feel in the best format (I need year, month,day,hour,min, seconds) - but I don't know what to do with the date once I have it in flash.
example xml: <Item end_time="2005-04-01 00:00:00" />
can I convert it into a valid date with out string manipulation? since the following doesn't work (obviously)
my_date = new Date(oXML.firstChild.attributes.end_time)
What I need is to be able to take the current time & substract it from the time in the xml to give me the remaining time.
By default, when you visit a website that is made entirely in Flash and there is a Tme and Date movie clip feature... you know... it gets the current time and date of your computer so you're actually seeing your own time, right?
What I've always wanted to do is when you visit a website that is made entirely in Falsh, and you have a Time and Date movie clip that tells the creators current time and the current date instead of just getting the values of your computer time and displaying your own. I'm in the Philippines so I want the visitors of my site to view what time and date is it in the Philippines.
Is there a way in flex 3 chart component to display both the date and time using horizontal DateTimeAxis?
Currently the DateTimeAxis element has an attribute dataunits which allows to set the value to any of "milliseconds|seconds|minutes|hours|days|weeks|months|years" but I want to display the label as "2009/09/15 06:00:00" which includes the day and the time too.
I would like to display the current date in the bottom part of the calendar on a DateChooser control. Has anyone extended the DateChooser control to do this?
Something like the attached image...
I managed to pull off some codes, but still, I have the slightest idea of how to add the label below the datechooser control.
I am using Flash MX 2004 and would like to display the system date/time. The problem I am encountering is when trying to use a pixel font to display it with. Is this possible??? Or can you use only standard (safe) font's i.e. Arial, sans-serif etc.
I mean this code works perfectly I mean display the time and date orderly...but my problem is why this time just display static when i run my swf...suppose to it will update it's minute and hour accordingly....here's the code
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is it I have to setting setInterval in case of update the minutes every seconds.
