ActionScript 3.0 :: How To Add Button To Dynamic Text File
May 3, 2009
I am trying to load different .txt files on the screen with each button click. I am in my first flash class and have only grasped a little bit of actionscript.
Code:
the button names are: bberk_btn apost_btn phales_btn
the text file names are: bberk.txt apost.txt phales.txt
How to connect the text files to the function of each button
var content_req1:URLRequest = new URLRequest("text/hales.txt");
var content_ldr:URLLoader = new URLLoader(content_req1);
content_ldr.addEventListener(Event.COM... onComplete1);
function onComplete1(event:Event):void {about_txt.htmlText = event.target.data;
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I've made a flash movie which will load four movie clips at runtime. Actually, the number of movie clips will depend upon number of "NODE" in XML file. Keeping XML file thing aside, I've tried hardcoded values; 4. Let me describe you the structure very well:
There is a main empty movie clip, instance name "mc_scroll" which will be only item on stage. In this movie clip, another movie clip whose identifier name is "blueMovie" will be loaded dynamically. Inside this "blueMovie" MC, there is a button instance name is "blueButton" and inside this button there is a "Dynamic Text" field instance name is "btn_text".
Phewww.. so long chain... inshort: mc_scroll->blueMovie->blueButton->btn_text
Now, I can load 4 or any number of "blueMovie" inside "mc_scroll". But I also want to set the button text for each button inside each MC!! I'm sure you guys are getting what I want to do. But its not working. Below is the code:
Code: //INSIDE THE MAIN TIME LINE for(i=0; i<4; i++) {
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how to assign the text dynamically which is inside a button and this button inside a MC which is created dynamically inside a main MC!
Attachment 54101my problem is in bitmap explained:1. after loading external text into dynamic text field,2. how to call/make visible "button over text" on the Scene by pointing a mouse over specific word in loaded external text?3. javascript, html, actionscript (asfunction, variable)
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.
I know this is a tutorial on this site but I'm having trouble finding it, and its been a while so I can't remember exactly how to do it. I just need to make a dynamic text field that you can edit via text file.
I have a dynamic text field that displays text from an external file. The text file has lists of text such as a1=(text here)&w1=(text here)& etcI want to be able to make a button so that will add one to the word count, such as, a button that says "Next" and when i do that, it loads the text string A2, when i click it again, it loads A3
I have a dynamic textfield being populated with an xml files' content. I then have a css stylesheet loaded into format the text. This all works great, but what doesn't work is the ability to bold some of the words in that text. I have both the regular and bold versions of the font embedded into the swf, I can test out just a bold block of text and it works fine. The css is also working as it will change the size of the text that I tell it to. Everything is working, but for some reason I am not able to get the bolder version of the font to display in the same text box as the regular one. I have also tried to change fonts but had the same outcome.
I know this is a tutorial on this site but I'm having trouble finding it, and its been a while so I can't remember exactly how to do it. I just need to make a dynamic text field that you can edit via text file.
I'm using Flash 8 and I'm trying to load new text into a dynamic text box already populated by a xml file.
I have a home page with 5 different buttons on the top menu.
1. Home 2. News 3. Tips and a few more.
Upon my home page loading, I have a dynamic text box with the welcome text which is populated by my xml file, here is my code for AS2:
function loadXML(loaded) { if (loaded) { _root.home = this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[0]; _root.tips = this.firstChild.childNodes[1].childNodes[0];
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What I want to do is load the news and tips text into the same dynamic text box on the home page when the news or tips button is clicked, so I don't have to load a whole new swf for each category thus making the site faster.
What code would I have to use to clear the text from the xml file and how would I load my new text upon clicking the button?
I cant load and external text file into my dynamic text box...when i trace the loaded var it can be found, but when it's loaded inside the text box, the value that appears is really strange.i tried to load the vars into the MC and on a level, the result is the same, it can be traced but does not appear correctly on the textbox..the code i used is here..i made a text box with about_us instance name, loaded the variables and tried to load my text inside it by setting the text property of the textbox but as u will see...
am setting up a webpage with Flash MX. On the homepage I have a dynamic text box with links to the left (currently the links are just typed words). We want it to setup so that when a user clicks a link (such as "HOME") it will access text from a .txt file and load it into the dynamic text box. We want all of the links ("HOME", "PERSONNEL", "RECRUITS", "CONTACT US") to load their text from a seperate .txt file into that same dynamic text box.
I have a dynamic textfield that loads text from a txt file. The content of the txt file will be modified daily by the client.What i need is that if there is too much text in the txt file, the dynamic textfield resizes (and not only with autosize because the text can be really long).[code]it doesnt look very good but it works. The only problem is that if I have a really long text the maxsizeY doesnt work fine.
I�m currently doing work for a local cinema that wants session times to be displayed as .swf's on a few monitors in the foyer, but I�m having difficulties writing the script for it, here's the situation:The session times are generated daily as a text file by the ticketing software, it looks like this:
12 1 0950 101 0 330 0 M MADE OF HONOUR 1 1 1000 95 0 400 0 M WHAT HAPPENS IN 6 1 1000 95 0 154 0 M SMART PEOPLE 9 1 1010 92 0 300 0 PG MISS PETTIGREW
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Additional requirements are the times disappearing after the session has started as well as session times 13-16 being displayed as a separate .swf (first class seating)So i guess my main question is "can i dynamically load text from a multi-line txt file without editing the txt file to include variable assignment? ('content=' etc)" the txt file generated is intended for an led display and is apparently a Texas Instruments standard.
do i have to use some other server-side code to save a text file to the flash folder?just want to convert some meaningless text from an input dynamic text to a file...
I have a dynamic text box that is loading in a text file. It seems to be doing this perfectly well. However, some HTML tags seem to break it. <b> makes the text dissapear. I tried doing a <span> on it, and changing the font-family with CSS, but I dont think its reading the CSS at all.
I have a text file in the same directory as the flash and a text dynamic box with name: news, var: news. I need to load into it the text file news.txt. The dynamic box is inside other MCs so when I do this command on root-actions layer I get this inside the text box: _level0.instance 10.instance12.scrolledMC.news.The command I use is simple but i dont know to how to put the correct path into it: loadVariablesNum("news.txt", 0);
Going step by step to get my data from a MYSQL/php .. right now i am stuck and cannt even get it from a text file.. what am i doing worng!!this is the code i am using:
var myLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader() myLoader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES myLoader.load(new URLRequest("trees.txt"))
Created a text box and assigned an instance name of mainText... Created a button with an instance name of mainBtn and placed an instance of the mainText textfield inside... AS2 solution --> mainBtn.mainText.text = "Some New Text"; and it WORKS!!! AS3 solution --> dunno yet...one thing's for sure, the code above doesn't work...tried a bunch of things, none work... Tried adding root, this, stage, and none of them help...Always comes up with "Access of undefined property instanceName through a reference with static type flash.display:SimpleButton" I need to write several of these so, naming the textfield inside a button should be the most efficient way...right??? Other solutions provided involved some XML file solution...Don't even need that...Just need something simple that works.
I am using attachMovie to load my_mc which has ten frames and a stop(); on the first frame.Also in the first frame is a dynamic text box named txt2 that is filled with text and btn_mc using an xml file. The button loads into the text box at the end of the text but I can't make it gotoAndPlay(2); of the ten frames.I have tried everything I can think of to get it to work including:
txt2.btn_mc.onRelease = function () { this.gotoAndPlay(2); }
I'm trying to have a button with dynamic text to change the name for each button. Here is the code I entered (btn is my button, and btn0 is my dynamic text field):
Code:
btn.btn0.text="Work";
but here is the output error I receive:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at MadP2_2_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
When i hover over my button it successfully updates my dynamic text and upon moving off the button the text clears. the function works how i want it to but is there a more efficient way of doing this? i have many buttons that will update the text so it seems very long whinded to do it the following way.[code]...
I'm new to Flash Pro programming, and am trying to create a button-type symbol where I can set the label. The problems I'm running into are as follows. If I make the symbol type=Button, I can't add ActionScripts in the frames and/or access any subcomponents? Why is this so? If I make the symbol type=MovieClip, I can add ActionScript and access sub-components, but can't figure out how to make the HandCursor show up on hover?
In AS3 I have a button on the stage and above it I create a textbox box dynamically with code. My problem is that the area that is under the text (i.e. that part of the button) is no longer clickable.
OK... so I simply want to enter text dynamically into a button for a quiz answer.So I created a text field named "answer01" and put it into a button symbol (not named)then I wrote:
ActionScript Code: answer01.text = "1. Machaut"; but testing it produces:
I am in the process of developing a fully dynamic website, and I'm running into a large issue.I can generate multiple unique buttons from an asset I've got in the Library, I can assign them each their own unique text field information as well as unique text to put into another text field (which is where I"m having trouble), but for the life of me I can't figure out how to code each button to display it's unique text in that second text field! The issue I keep running into is AS3 won't save a unique eventListener for each button like it does for all of the other unique pieces, so when I go to pass any variables into it, it takes the last variable that existed instead of what I would assume would be the unique one from it's for-loop pass![code]I can also post up the .fla file if someone actually wants to take a look at it.The jewel.year_txt and jewel.info_txt will wind up coming from an XML file once I've gotten this to work.
i have some animated buttons in a comon library. i need to generate n number of buttons using for loop and the button labels to be acquired from xml file and the same has to be assigned to the buttons as labels. ( i know it is possible in movieclips ). how to change the button's label dynamically?
I'm trying to have a button with dynamic text to change the name for each button. Here is the code I entered (btn is my button, and btn0 is my dynamic text field):
Code: btn.btn0.text="Work";
but here is the output error I receive:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at MadP2_2_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
