ActionScript 3.0 :: Dynamically Adjust Textbox To Fit Text?
Sep 3, 2009I was wondering if anyone knows a good strategy to adjust a text box to fit text.[code]...
View 4 RepliesI was wondering if anyone knows a good strategy to adjust a text box to fit text.[code]...
View 4 RepliesI've followed the tutorial on here on how load text from an XML file into a dynamic text box. I'd like to also automatically adjust the height of my text box based on the imported XML text
function loadXML(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
_root.header = this.firstChild.childNodes[2].childNodes[0].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
_root.content1 = this.firstChild.childNodes[2].childNodes[0].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
header.text = _root.header;
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What I'm trying to do build an FLV player which will take the size of the FLV movie and dynamically adjust the stage width/height to match the FLV.
View 2 RepliesI know how to adjust the whole text box size using auto size, but I haven't found an easy answer for merely adjusting the size of the font.
The Textbox size won't change, but sometimes a word will be long and other times short. Now I have a small font that looks silly when the word is small and doesn't fit when the word is big.
I have some button code on frame one. that looks like this:
[AS]on (release, keyPress "<Enter>") {
mylogin = new LoadVars();
mylogin.password = password;
mylogin.username = username;
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basically sending and recieving variables from a php page. I want to be able to specify what my textbox on frame 5 says in the onLoad statement. Is this possible?
Currently the only way I have been able to get the text to display is either to use the textbox variable and declare that in the onload statement, or to put textbox.text = mylogin.message; on the actual frame.I doubt there is a way to do it, because the actual textbox hasn't be created yet, but if there were a way, that would be nice.
I have some button code on frame one. that looks like this:
[AS]on (release, keyPress "<Enter>") {
mylogin = new LoadVars();
mylogin.password = password;
[code]....
basically sending and recieving variables from a php page. I want to be able to specify what my textbox on frame 5 says in the onLoad statement. Currently the only way I have been able to get the text to display is either to use the textbox variable and declare that in the onload statement, or to put textbox.text = mylogin.message; on the actual frame.
i'm trying to create a site like this notice if you scale your browser...the bottom player adjusts .sliding w/ the bottom of the browser... how do you get a Movie clip to dynamically move when you adjust your browser...
View 14 RepliesI have a textfield 300 width x 300 heigth in the instance.after i loaded the xml into this textfield (xml_txt) , all the content stays within this txtfield. so if i select the text i scroll down..but i dont want this..
is it possible to, after loaded the xml, to adjust the heigth of the textfield to fit in the text, so i dont need to scroll it.?
I tried the line spacing button, but even setting it at 0 does not get the leading small enough.
View 1 RepliesI'm creating a timeline structured site where a movie clip on the stage called 'slider' is set to slide automatically according to how far left, or right the mouse position is from the center of the stage. This works. I even have it set it up so that using two variables, i can decide how much or even which portion of the movie clip (or the timeline) the user is allowed to slide around in.I then have a movieclip called 'yearMarker' which is attached at runtime inside the 'slider' movie clip. This is done through a While loop and PHP script which retrieves from the database the field values for "year" (just a string denoting the particular year in question), and "yearXPosition" (which is how far along on the x axis the attached movie clip should be.the string I retreive from php looks like this:
yearOf1=1976&yearPosition1=0&yearOf2=1977&yearPosi tion2=350&yearOf3=1978&yearPosition3=1350&yearOf4= 1979&yearPosition4=1700&yearOf5=1980&yearPosition5 =2050&...ect.
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Is it possible to adjust the kerning of dynamic text?
View 7 RepliesI'm trying to dynamically create a static text field on the stage, but I want it to automatically shrink to the smallest height possible, much like a static text box dragged created using the Text Tool.
Here's my code at current:
Code:
_root.createTextField("text_box"+i,i,10,10,530,100);
_root["text_box"+i].type = "static";
_root["text_box"+i].text = text_arr[i];
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I am having a problem in adding and removing the the email field text boxes dynamically. I have an add button beside an email field. On clicking it a new email field is generated below it dynamically with a remove button beside it(this too dynamically). The problem is if I have added 5 email fields and I want to, say remove the third email field, then i have to reset the 'y' position of the subsequent email field text box; i.e; I have to reset the 'y' position of 4th and 5th email fields. This problem becomes serious if I have 10 instead of 5 email fields. I have learn that in Javascript we can do this use of a container that automatically resets the position of the text fields. Is there any way out in Flash for this?
View 1 Repliesgoal: Have a text box called "myText" update with the name of an instance that is clicked.Right now I have an instance of myText dynamically on the stage as an added childI also have seven instances of a building that all have individual instance names, bldg1,bldg2, bldg3, etc.I have created a variable called buildings: I also have a for each that makes the bldgNames the same as the buildings array.The problem arises when I want to click on the building and have the myText update with the actual building name (as described in my "trace"my code below.I would like, for example, when I click on the box that is entitled "Building 3" for the myText to read "bldg3".the whole code is:
Code:
var myFont = new CenturyGothic();
var myFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
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I'm loading in some data from an XML into Flash then searching a level and returning a number depending on how many nodes are on that level (at the moment is "2") Then I collect bits of info from each and trace the results which works fine, problem is I can't seem to create a separte textbox for each result?
Code:
_root.total = _root.xmlNode.childNodes[0].childNodes.length;
for (i=0; i<total; i++) {
venue[i] = _root.xmlNode.childNodes[0].childNodes[i].childNodes[0].childNodes[8].firstChild;
team_a[i] = _root.xmlNode.childNodes[0].childNodes[i].childNodes[0].childNodes[0].firstChild;
team_b[i] = _root.xmlNode.childNodes[0].childNodes[i].childNodes[0].childNodes[1].firstChild;
kick_off[i] = _root.xmlNode.childNodes[0].childNodes[i].childNodes[0].childNodes[5].firstChild;
trace((venue[i]) + ": " + (team_a[i]) + " v " + (team_b[i]) + ", Kick off at " + (kick_off[i]));
I thought I would just need to write something like:
fixture[i].text = (venue[i]) + ": " + (team_a[i]) + " v " + (team_b[i]) + ", Kick off at " + (kick_off[i]);
But that doesn't work..it just displays the 2nd result
Is it possible to get the color being used in a dynamic textbox through actionscript? I am formatting the textbox with css and I want another element in my movieclip to match whatever color the text is in that textbox dynamically. Ive tried everything I can think of.
View 4 RepliesI am trying to set value of a textbox inside a swf loaded dinamically in the main swf...i am using
Code:
this.getChildByName("nuvoletta").textbox_value.text = "something";
but i get error 1199
I am forced using getchildbyname
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'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
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I am unfamiliar with Flash and actionscript and I need help to dynamically change the font of a textbox based on the value of a flashvar. I have a flash template whose content I can edit through XML. The flashvar value specifies the language and points to a different XML file. This works without problems, and I have found online a way to change the font via actionscript. However I need help on how to get a reference to that textbox.
There are two files an .fla and Main.as file. Within the fla file there is a single Scene and when the textbox is selected the properties display "thisLogo" as its name and "Dynamic Text" in the combo box below. Within the Main.as file I have attempted to add the following code:
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1119: Access of possibly undefined property thisLogo through a reference with static type Main.
I'm trying to create the following component: Just for information, the blank space will contain a text control, and I'm creating a component that represents the black corner with the (i) icon and the "promotion" text. The part I'm having issues with is this component representing the black corner with the diagonal text. The text has to be able to hold 2 lines. And the black corner has to be able to adjust to the text's size. What's more, the text has a rotation... I'm having some doubts on how to do this:
Should I have different controls for each text line? Should I draw the text in the shape (after doing the rotation) or should I just overlap both components? [When I talk about drawing the text in the shape, I mean in the same way as asked in this question] Is there any way to get the proper size of the triangle shape without doing some extravagant calculations?
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I have really no idea how to do this, but i have a textbox and a button.When this button is clicked, i want it to add "<b>" before the currently selected text in the textbox. How would i go by this?
View 1 RepliesI have a textbox (actually, quite a few, I am working with lots of actionscripting/manipulating text), and it seems like the more text that's in the textboxes, the slower flash processes things. I understand like if I had 2 billion characters or something, but were talking a major slowdown between a difference of 300 and 800 words. I would think that flash should be able to handle that. Some are htmlText boxes, and so this added 'hidden' html tags creates lots of slowdown as well. I have cleared variables after using them, and it has helped somewhat, but not very noticably.
View 1 RepliesI am importing the class from as file in that as file I have one loop [code]It will trace message properly.my problem is that I will not able to map "Custom Msg" in dynamic text which is in MovieClip (mc) of fla file, how could I go wtih this ?If I include same as file in flash It will shows as error.1037: Packages cannot be nested. What the solution for this ?
View 3 RepliesHow do I write the PHP server script to get the text which is in a Dynamic Textbox?
PHP Code:
<?PHP $to = mail@mail.net; $subject = "SUBJECT SUBJECT"; $headers = "From:" .$email."
"; $headers .= "Bcc: $email
"; $message = "Name: " . $thename; $message .= "
Address: " . $theaddress;$sentOk = mail("$to",$subject,$message,$headers); echo "sentOk=" . $sentOk;
Is 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 making something where a user is able to type text into an input box and it is added to the stage inside a movieclip. I then make that movieclip draggable.Problem is the textbox height is sometimes even double the height of the height of the text inside. I need it to fit tight
View 4 RepliesWith Flash CS5 and AS3, I have created a textbox and I load some html text (with CSS) into it. This works great. This textbox has fixed width & height.
I would like to show another component, say "component1", only if the loaded text is too long to be entirely displayed in the textbox.
How can I detect that the text which is loaded with AS3 is too big to be entirely displayed in a textbox ?
had a problem where writing to a textbox with .text simply doesn't work?I am addressing the textbox with the right name and using .text like so.tbox.text = "blah blah blah"but it doesn't change from the text it has at design time.It is set to dynamic text and for the system font _sans.I don't recall ever having this problem with as2 before.
View 9 RepliesI have a textbox that will display numbers,but not text.I'm fairly certain it can't be anything to do with the code, so could it be something to do with the properties?
Code:
var words:String = "default";
var multiplier:int = 10;
var scoreBubble:ScoreBubble = new ScoreBubble();[code]....