ActionScript 3.0 :: Format Text Inside Text Box?
Sep 8, 2011
I am presently using the text tool to draw out a text box on stage (classic text, input text - the end user needs to be able to change the text inside the text box). the instance name for the text box will be called borderText. i need to use buttons to change the size of the text, the color of the text and also change the font style. have been playing around with it, but having mixed or no results. i need someone to help me get started.
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May 27, 2009
I have a textField inside a mc. When you roll over an event is triggered. In the fuction I can do this:
Code:
event.currentTarget.getChildAt(0).text="fred";
And the text changes - so its being targeted. I want to change the format of the text so I thought.
Code:
event.currentTarget.getChildAt(0).defaultTextFormat=mTitle_fmt;
But, its doesn't work.
It says "ReferenceError: Error #1037: Cannot assign to a method setTextFormat on flash.text.TextField. at index001_fla::MainTimeline/overHandler()"
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Feb 4, 2009
Trying to format input text fields using format buttons in Actionscript has been challenging. I've been able to put some pieces together, however I am still missing some things. Here's my code:
Code:
function selectText() {
startSelect = Selection.getBeginIndex();[code].........
I need the ability to click the Bold button and it bolds or unbolds at the cursor so if I hit the bold button what I type from that point on will be bold until I hit the button again and then it goes back to regular. I am able to change it to bold or unbold by selecting the text and clicking the button but I also need to do it without selecting.
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Oct 25, 2010
When applying text formatting to a comboBox, the text formatting appears perfectly on the dropdown menu items but the textField text disappears.Removing the text formatting from the textField makes the textField text reappear but of course there is no text formatting.
Is there a trick to this.
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Nov 7, 2010
I need application with input text box and a button, user is able to write into the input text box, and when he press button, the written text will save on a text format file on server (like a notepad with .txt extension) and if this file exist before new information will over write!
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May 14, 2009
Noob question, I hope. I need to create scrolling text areas with rich text format content. I know I can use the textArea component and set the htmlText property but converting all of my RTF to HTML is gonna be a major pain in the @$$. I keep getting into trouble thinking what's mindlessly easy in Director/Lingo is gonna be reasonably simple in Flash/AS3, I hoping this is just my inexperience with Flash getting in the way. Is there an easier way? I thought of embedding a PDF document but apparently that's not an option in Flash either (note: I know how to link a PDF doc, I need this text to display and scroll within the application, not just pop a new window on top).
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Aug 28, 2011
When I create a TLF text area that is editable at runtime (which means that it can get a user input at runtime) I set the text direction to the 'right-to-left' definition in both the 'container and flow' and the 'paragraph' sections and set the language for Arabic or Hebrew at the 'locale' setting. I also set the text alignment to the 'align to start' mode. Now at runtime there's a stange thing. When I try to click with the mouse cursor on the editable TLF text-box, it's not displaying the text icon cursor and don't allow me to insert text inside.
But when I move my mouse cursor over the right side of the editable TLF text box, it change his appearance to the familiar text cursor which indicate that if you click here you will be able to insert text input inside. So my problem is how can I make it that only when I will hover over the TLF text box itself, the mouse cursor will be changed to text cursor icon and when I will hover beside its right side, it will remain at the normal cursor mode.
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May 10, 2011
I have a text field where user can type and few controls to customize the text properties like: font, size, color etc.If a user has typed say "Hello World", the caretindex is next to d of World. I want that if now the user makes some changes to the cusomization properties like: changes font size, then the text appearing next is of the font size set and not that of d. How can I do that?
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Jan 17, 2012
I have one dynamic text field in the instance name my_text. I have set the Embed option in that file. because i need to rotate the text field. Now I need to change the font format of dynamic text field.[code]...
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Jul 10, 2009
I'm reading text from a text file and displaying it into a text field. The problem is when i read it doesn't display the text as it is in a text file. For ex - See below imageNow , as you can see, second line in the text file starts right where first line ends.But flash doesn't display it like that. I have hundreds of lines and in most cases flash spaces consumes less space then a text file. The font in both text field in Flash and notpad is to Arial so the font shouldn't be a problem.
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Jun 27, 2011
I have text that is in a scrollable box using the scroll bar component and I would like to be able to format headlines differently than the main body copy, etc. How do I do this? The text is dynamic, multiple line.Was hoping not to have to use external files.
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Aug 18, 2010
I'm importing text via an XML file that will then be displayed in a dynamic text field. The text is about 1 sentence long but one of the words in the sentence must be bold and a different color. So I've added some HTML tags in the XML node to change the color and format but when I test the file the html tags show in the dynamic text field and the text is NOT formatted.
Here is my code:
I bring in the XML data with this AS3 code:
ActionScript Code:
var _xml:XML;
var _xmlList:XMLList;
var _xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
[Code]....
Am I not using the CDATA tag properly? Or do I need to change something in the way I call up the data in the xml node ?
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Jan 25, 2010
i have to set the text format for some tokens in a plain text. I'm trying to use the Text Layout Framework to improve the speed of the operation but i've founded that TLF is far slower (10X in my tests) than the old setTextFormat(). For each token i call this function:
public function setTextFormat(format:TextLayoutFormat, begin:int, end:int):void{
var selection:SelectionState = new SelectionState(this._textFlow, begin, end, this._normalFormat);
[code].....
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Feb 18, 2012
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);
[code].....
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Feb 13, 2009
is there a way to format text within a text box? I put a dynamic text box on my page and I added the text through Actionscript 3(News_text.text = "this is my dummy text";). Can I add <b></b> to this text to make it bold or any of the other html codes?
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Mar 18, 2010
here is my code public function loadtext():void{ var text_arry:Array=new Array(xmldata.child(0).name); student_name.text=String(text_arry); } I called this function inside my timeline action window. but it is not working it said undefined...
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Apr 8, 2003
I want to import an html file that contains just plain tet inside of a dynamic text box. The things that I have tried jus tmake the html file pop-up as a new page, but i want the information inside of that textbox.
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Sep 21, 2009
I'm pulling text from an xml file into a dynamic text field and I need to highlight the text one paragraph at a time depending on where the timeline playhead is. I was thinking of doing this by changing the color of the text but I don't know how to do it inside the CDATA tags.At the moment one CDATA populates one text field.Another option is that there would be a movie clip behind the text that would jump to highlight a specific paragraph but then I would need to know how much vertical space each paragraph takes.
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Nov 11, 2008
How do I make some text inside my scrollable text field linked.
EG:
(Scrollable using the UI scrollbar)
Test1
Test2
Test3
I want to link Test1 to frame 1, Test2 to frame 2, etc.
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Dec 11, 2006
how to load external text and scroll it inside the text area.
i wanna know how can i use this if its not in my main timeline, if its inside a Mc ?
loadVariablesNum("./text.txt", 0);
How can i tell it to load in my Mc ?
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Aug 25, 2009
I have made a top 10 module for my site that loads variables dynamicly in text fields, it works pretty fine, but i have a problem. The text inside the text fields is scaling on move.I don't want the text inside to scale.Here you have the link:xample of text field creation in my as:
Code:
private function createTextField(x:Number, y:Number, width:Number, height:Number):TextField {
[code]........
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Feb 17, 2010
I have a scrollbar that uses a movieclip-instance name "text" to display dynamic text.On the main timeline I used the following code:
myLoadVars = new LoadVars();
myLoadVars.onLoad = function() {
dynamictextcontent.htmlText = myLoadVars.dynamictextvariable_html;
[code].....
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Jan 23, 2008
I have this code for my button. How do I make it so when its rolled Over, it'll display a text area with text inside it? and when I roll Out, the text area will go away?
on (rollOver) {
}
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Sep 24, 2004
I have text showing up in a text area, I know I can make the background transparent, but how do I make the actual text showing up an _alpha of oh say 30 or 40...I've tried..(inside the onClipLoad event of the text area)
this.text._alpha = 30;
this.setStyle("alpha", "30");
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Jul 5, 2010
im using a custom scrollbar class, but instead of scrolling content like bitmaps i want to scroll the text inside a text box. what parameter do i use to edit or get the scroll position of a dynamic textbox?
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Mar 19, 2007
I have a button which opens a gallery when clicked .. this is the code:
Code:
on (release) {
ssp.toggleGallery();
}
I also have a dynamic text box and I want that exact same action to be performed when the text inside the text box is clicked. This is what I have in my txt file but it's not working,
Code:
article=<font size="11" color='#FF0000'><a href='asfunction:ssp.toggleGallery()'>Open gallery of current projects</font></U></a>
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Oct 21, 2010
I'm using CS4 AS2. Should I just use CDATA tag within the XML is this the easiest way? I have 32 swfs which are each loaded to a holder at different times. Do I use code to format the text? The boxes exist in the swfs already.
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Jan 7, 2010
i have read one of the tutorial about css in flash my dificulty is. instead of using this variable
[Code]...
that i put inside the fla like this output.htmlText= quick= my_xml.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes; its put the right text but without css format.
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Mar 14, 2011
I am struggling with TLF text, I searched and searched and can't find a GOOD tutorial or complete method on how to format TLF text with AS3, I need to:
- Load dynamic text into dynamic TLF text field
- Set custom fonts
- Set formatting including letter spacing, margins, leading, sharpness
- Set links, link hoover color, link decoration
- Get a method that supports HTML tags (those supported by Flash CS5)
Can you please suggest a good site, tutorial, book, e-book that explains all the steps needed to set, format and control TLF text? I need something that explains how to do this, logically, step by step, I'm a designer not a programmer
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May 27, 2009
I have a textField inside a mc. When you roll over an event is triggered.
In the fuction I can do thisCode:event.currentTarget.getChildAt(0).text="fred";and the text changes - so its being targettedI want to change the format of the text so I thoughtCode:event.currentTarget.getChildAt(0).defaultTextFormat=mTitle_fmt;but, its doesn't work.it says "ReferenceError: Error #1037: Cannot assign to a method setTextFormat on flash.text.TextField.at index001_fla::MainTimeline/overHandler()"
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