I am loading some XML into a dynamic text field
Actionscript Code:
texts_mc.desc_txt.text = xmlList[0].desc;
I need to limit its length to 75 characters which is about half the length of the last line of text. Is there a way to do that? I have been looking in the docs and tried stuff with String.substr but I could not get it to work at all.
I have a dynamic textfield which receive the text the user input. And I want to make it like no matter how many words the user type, it always have the same area of the box, say if the user type hello, the texfield box is
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this large and if the user type hello, the world, the textfield change to
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the font seems smaller than the former one, but the total area remains the same. How should I make the coding so that it can have this kind of effect.
I have a dynamic textfield which receive the text the user input. And I want to make it like no matter how many words the user type, it always have the same area of the box[code]...
View 5 RepliesGot a problem with dynamic textfield length. I have a flash movie which is loading text from an external text file. I have drag the dynamic text field and make its width equal to the movie length (say:550pxl) so that it covers the entire stage. I have given motion tween to this dynamic single line text field. So, that whatever the content is there in the external textfile will scroll from left to right. Now for a single line it is ok, but if there are lot of content which would exceed one line length then what to do? So, I need a script so that, the length of the singleline-textfield would be dynamically changed with the textlength, the content of which is being updated from an external file using the LoadVariable syntax. I am using Flash5.
View 2 RepliesOn my project, I have a dynamic textfield inside a movieclip. The textfield loads XML text. How can I set the dynamic textfield length(width) based on how much text is typed on the xml file?
View 3 RepliesHave an Input textfield and write e.g. 123 in it (This is on frame 1).Then later in frame 3 I want that number to be shown in a Dynamic textfield.How do I do that?
View 0 Repliesi cant assign a new value to a dynamic field by code. i cant write into a input field on flash player.
you're ganna need the fla file. i made it simplify. not complicated. [URL]
when I parse my input-textfield and setTextFormat, everything works fine, but when I write something between the newly formatted part of the the, suddenly the formatting spreads over the whole texfield.
Is there any way (besides .htmlText="") to get rid of text formatting-tags. (maybe something simpler than a html-parser or so?)
Im struggling to load the text of this image in the textfield I placed on the stage with an instance name of "Sample". If I load it into as3 Textfield eg var field: Textfield = new TextField; it works, but if I try to load it into a dynamic textfield on the stage it doesn't work. Why?here is my code and xml
ActionScript Code:
var loaders:Array = [];
var imageLoader:Loader;
var xml:XML;
[code]....
how to load xml into dynamic textfield on my stage.
I have a Dynamic Text Field placed on stage at authortime. I need to truncate the text within that field by replacing the last VISIBLE word with an ellipse. Now, the problem I'm encountering is that in a multiline text box with wrapping turned on, I can't figure out a way to get the index of the last visible character, or some other point where I can start truncating.
Part of the issue is that if you pass a really long SINGLE line string into the text field, Flash will wrap it like you would expect, however, the text gets masked if the text field isn't big enough to display it all, but the text that ISN'T visible still is factored into the values returned by AS3.0 For example, let's say the text field is only big enough to display 3 lines of text.
If the long string I'm trying to display has to wrap 17 times, then myTextField.numLines would return 17 because the unseen text still exists... it's just not able to be displayed in the text field. Also, myTextField.bottomScrollV doesn't help because the string is all 1 line, so even though you can't see the ENTIRE line, it still returns as visible.Everything I've seen about truncating text involves coming up with some arbitrary max character amount, and just truncating at that point. I would prefer to figure it out dynamically based on the text field's width and height because:
1) character sizes/widths differ for every font, and
2) There may actually be several different fonts used in the same text field.
do anyone know how to script the dynamic text length to the amount of text in the text file instead of manually drag it to the length?
Code:
myLoadVars_lv = new LoadVars();
myLoadVars_lv.onLoad = function(success) {
[code].....
So I'm working with flash CS3 and AS2. I added a Loader component and a
var imagetext:String = "http://www.digitaldesktopwallpaper.com/wallpapers/unknown/waterfall_wallpaper_001_1024.jpg";
And a button that
on(press) {
_root.imgloader.contentPath = _root.imagetext;
}
It all works well and stuff, but when I turned "imagetext" into an input text field, it gives me an error message
Error opening URL 'http://www.digitaldesktopwallpaper.com/wallpapers/unknown/waterfall_wallpaper_001_1024.jpg<TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT FACE="DokChampa" SIZE="21" COLOR="#FFFFFF" LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0">a</FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT>'
how do I define that input text as a string text on the press of the button and replace the original content with the new one?
I'm trying to get this headline to load into a dynamic textfield. Do I need a loader to load text the smae way i do for an image?Below is my code. I will try to comment it out.
ActionScript Code:
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var xmlData:XML = new XML();[code]......
I have defined two variables,
Example
x = 2;
y = 3;
I then want to load both of these variables so that they will look like this
(2/3)
/ is just a separator not a divide operator!
I want to load these two vars into a dynamic text field called loadText:
_root.loadText = "WHAT DO I PUT HERE";
I am facing very weired problem. I have tried and had success loading an img into a dynamic textField at run time. But sometimes it takes littile long to load img and gives me an impression that image is not getting loaded.My textFields html, multiline, autoSize, wordWrap properties are set to TRUE. But still sometimes i dont get my image loaded in to the textField. My images are also having size of max 7kb.
View 1 RepliesI'm still a beginner with AS3. I am simply trying to load my .htm file into my dynamic text field, but it will not show up. When the movie plays, the cursor shows that there is text where it is supposed to be, but I do not see any text. I don't see an option to attach a file, otherwise I would.
var myFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat ();
myFormat.size=16;
myFormat.align=TextFormatAlign.CENTER;
var htmlText:URLRequest = new URLRequest ("text.htm");
var loadShit:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loadShit.load(htmlText);
[Code] .....
I was wondering if I can point to a variable of a .txt file.My .txt file has four variables:&main= text here&&title = title here&&main2= text2 here&&title2 = title2 here&I load the first Variable on my dynamic textfield successfully.What I want to do now is, to display the second variable on the same dynamic textfield when button "next" is clicked.ctually I am using this code: (where "main" is the first text variable and "title" the second one).
Code:
var myLoadVars:LoadVars = new LoadVars;
myLoadVars.load("mytext.txt");
[code].....
Is it possible to load text into a dynamic text field, and if yes how could I do this? I've searched a few tutorials on dynamic text fields but it concentrates on scrolling. I would like unique text to load in the dynamic text field depending on which navigation button I click on.
(i.e. I click on "button1" and "blabla1" text appears in the text field. I click on "button2" and blabla2" text appears in the same text field.)
I am using TextField.length to determine if a TextField is empty or not but it is never returning zero - it is always length = 1 when empty.
Although my code is based on this and seems to work. if (mcApp.txtDisplay.length == 1) {
I can't understand why and am wondering if this may break one day if it is a bug and gets fixed. Or am I doing somethign wrong?
What easiest way to place cursor (focus?) into an textfield input box for receiving user input after an event?
View 1 RepliesI'm building a small Flash app in which users will enter a promotion code and will submit that to a server... well... there's more to it than that... but that's what I am here about...Anyways, I wanted to activate a button when a user has typed in the full 10 digit promo code... that is, after 10 characters are entered into my input box, the submit button becomes visible..
View 2 RepliesI have an input text box and need to control the line length max char 20 for each line using AS3.
View 2 Repliesim using this code from the docs
import flash.display.Bitmap;
import flash.display.BitmapData;
import flash.text.TextField;[code].......
the problem is when i make the string longer - there are characters missing in the Bitmap - ive used the TestFormat to no avail
i'm trying to get a Flash form to test certain conditions, one of which is the full date (ie 2006 as opposed to 06), but the AS below (in bold) isn't working... does anybody know the right script?
on (release) {
if (!name.length) {
text.emailstatus = "please enter your name";
[code]....
Does anyone know a way, to return the length, preferably in pixels, of a specific line in a multiline textfield. In this case, I need to know the length of the last line.
View 1 RepliesI am going nuts here. I've searched exhaustively, and cannot seem to find anyone else experiencing my issue, so it must be something elementary I am not grasping. I'm creating TextFields dynamically, for use as input boxes:
Code:
function makeText(whatParent, whatText, whatFormat, input){
var thisTextField:TextField = new TextField();
[code].....
I parse an xml file that his content is:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<operators>
<operator><name>OPerator1 </name></operator>
[Code].....
I display the name of operator in a TextField after parsing the xml file my problem is to loop through this different TextField with a fade effect.
I'm trying read xml from flash within a class. The only thing that's missing is creating as many buttons as the length of xml. The xml length works well in the function that loads the xml. When I put the xml length in the function on the buttons, it is equal to 0. How can I make all function read the value of xml length?
View 1 RepliesI'm trying read xml from flash within a class. The only thing that's missing is creating as many buttons as the length of xml. The xml length works well in the function that loads the xml. When I put the xml length in the function on the buttons, it is equal to 0. How can I make all function read the value of xml length?
View 1 RepliesDoes anyone know, why a textfield may become white when loading text + JPGs into it? Sometimes it happens to me, sometimes not. I haven't figured out why. If you have any clues... The AS I'm using:
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