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 RepliesI 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;
[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. 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 am looking for a way to have my content scroll vertically automatically if it is past a certain height.
Code:
var my_format1:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
my_format1.font = "EventFont";
my_format1.size = 50;
my_format1.color = 0xFFFFFF;
[Code]....
I have the following code to populate a dynamic text box:
Code:
myData = new LoadVars();
myData.onLoad = function() {
trace ("The text box before autosize is: " + sailing_txt._height);
sailing_txt.htmlText = unescape(this.myVariable);
sailing_txt.autoSize = true;
trace ("The text box after autosize is: " + sailing_txt._height);
};
myData.load("sailing.txt");
The output of this is:
The text box before autosize is: 388.25
The text box after autosize is: 712.5
My problem is that I need to get the autosized height instead of the regular height of the text box before autosize. In a parent movie clip I have the following code to do some custom scrolling:
Code:
contentHeight = _parent.scrolledMC.sailing_txt._height;
trace("The content height is: " + contentHeight);
The output of this is:
The content height is: 388.25
So it's getting the size of the text box before it's autosized.
I am resizing a movie clips height automatically to match the height of some dynamic text that is displayed above it (will eventually be loading it from xml ). is there a way to keep a safe margin top and bottom? this is my code so far Text_Box_Graphic.height = Text_Box.height;
View 2 RepliesI 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 RepliesWhat code can I use to shrink a piece of text in a dynamic text field to fit within a certain height and width.
View 1 RepliesWe are trying to get a Rectangle that represents the exact* boundary of the text in a TextField.
*Exact as possible.
Take this image:
Using my current knowledge, I can retrieve the blue rectangle above like so:
var textRect:Rectangle = new Rectangle(
field.x,
field.y,
[Code]....
Even if I fill a small section with the color I'm looking for I still get a zero-sized rectangle:
bmd.fillRect(new Rectangle(0, 0, 30, 30), textField.textColor);
As part of my flash design, I want to have some tweening text. At the beginning of the tween, the height of the text needs to be distorted ('too tall'), and at the end of the tween, the text will have settled into its correct height. However, when I try to scale the text in the first keyframe of the tween, the font size changes along with the text field height. Normally, I could just make the text into an image, but this needs to be a dynamic text field. Is there no way to scale the height of the text field and distorting the text height without changing the font size?
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;
With 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]....
how to kill focus from a textbox as the mouse is clicked outside the textbox?
View 4 RepliesI want to identify specific strings in a text box from user input to add to a score variable, like so -
[Code]...
The example given adds 1 to the score, but if a user adds a space then a second word the text box views it as a whole and not individual words, resulting in no values added to the score variable.The problem lies with the whole text box being viewed as one entire string. Instead, I want to split it up so word1 will add 1 to the score, word2 will add 1 to the score, etc.
in that i have a text box.when i enlarge the swf window the size of swf is large.In that time i want to resize the textbox.how to do this?
i need to adjus the x,y ,width and height depend upon the stage height and width.
update
when i resize the window it looks like that
I created a text area on my stage using the text tool, then converted it to a MovieClip symbol. I called it ScoreLabel and I clicked "Export for ActionScript". I named the instance of the text area scoreLabel. However, when I do this in my code:
scoreLabel.text = this.score;
it doesn't change. That line is in my Main.as file, which is the document class. How can I change the text shown in this text area using ActionScript? Maybe I need to import a library?
Why won't this work?
Code:
var galleries = this.firstChild.childNodes;
for(var i=0;i<galleries.length;i++) {
[code].....
ok, heres my prob... I got a textbox with a external file with html... this is working fine ! the problem is, that the textbox (with a scroller) shows only the 1/2 of the whole text.. is there a max of characters to put in my .txt file ? is there something to put it longer...
View 8 Repliesi have an mc with a textbox which i'm loading with data from an external text file. the box is set to 'render as html' but the tags in the text file are being ignored.
(i've tried everything i can think of, including starting from scratch several times...)
is there something that i'm missing, or is flash just playing up?
Move input text to another textbox when typing
View 1 RepliesI made a movie clip to show instructions for a study people will participate in. I wanted to make it look nice so it has a lot of movement and fades and stuff. This required the use of more nested movie clips than i probably need. However, now when I want to attach a string var to a text box in the movie clip, it doesn't show whencompiled.Code:instructions_mc_m.large_instuctions_mc.large_instructions_tb_container.large_instructions_tb.text=matchedInstrThere are no errors, so I'm assuming the path is correct (and i dbl checked it anyway)
View 5 RepliesI was wondering if anyone knows a good strategy to adjust a text box to fit text.[code]...
View 4 RepliesI am using Flash Professional 8. I tried to create a scrollable textbox, which has two columns, please see attached image (menu.gif). Unfortunately i have to type out the whole text, even though i have the text already formatted correctly using tables in a html file. Also, why is the keyboard tab button not working within a scrollable text box?? Is there a way to activate it? I have been using the space bar to align text within the textbox. And the alignment is not exact!?
Anyway, when i test (Ctrl+Enter) the movie In Flash 8, the two column text formatting is lost and the text is spread out all over the textbox?? It seems at runtime, the text formatting does not apply? I have managed to create tables in html which display the above text exactly how i want it. However, how can this html file be imported into the textbox in Flash 8?
I searched the forum first, found a lot of answers, but not for this question.I need to display a dynamic text in a textbox. In my txt file there are some "&" and "+" characters that need to be displayed. So I URL encoded these characters. "&" becomes %26 and "+" becomes %2b. Strange thing is: it works perfect for the "+", but the "&" won't show nowhere...
Changing my txt file from Unicode into UTF 8 doesn't.Tried using System.useCodepage = true;
I'm using the text layout component offered by adobe labs. I read the documentation and now capable of doing almost all what I need. I just have a small problem. Lets say I have a text layout object on my stage containing some text. How can I know the height of the text or the number of lines in it?
I found their is a porperty: "contentHeight" and a method "calculateHeight()" but they are in another class of the libraries that comes with the text layout component. I don't know how to reach them. Please help and write me the lines of code that do this job.
I want to load data into a random textbox. Example:
though i want the text to display under a random spaceship