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 have a few filters on a sprite. on mouse over i would like to access one of the filters in the filters array, but i'm having a bit of trouble trying to accomplish this.
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When Serching for levalid Sting. How can i get that leval page length;
example1: search String="m0_l0_t1" these leval page length =2,
example2: search String="m0_l0" these leval page length =3,
var myxmlL:XML=
<root>
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I want to attach some script to a button that will increase the length of a line (movieclip) by x amount each time.I have tried using this :
on (press){
this.line._xscale=this.line._xscale+5
}
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I am still working on my pulley sim. I have two wieghts hanging from a pulley. When the user drags one down, the other move up accordingly. I am trying to figure out how make the line that represents the rope grow and shrink as the weights move. I have drawn the line like this:
var lineW:MovieClip = new MovieClip();addChild(lineW);lineW.graphics.lineStyle(1);lineW.graphics.moveTo(178,127);lineW.graphics.lineTo(weight_mc.x,weight_mc.y);
But I don't know how to change the length. I tried redrawing the line in the Enter_Frame function that moves the weights but it only adds to the line without shortening it.
I was woundering is it possible to measure the length of lines that are drawn with scripts such as these? The ones where you can draw with the mouse? [URL]
View 2 RepliesI am wanting to position a large close-quote graphic relative to the end of the last line of text in a text field. Is there a way to use textWidth to find the width in pixels of just the last line of a textField?
View 1 RepliesI have a string whose length may vary but will always be divisible by 3 and want to push every three characters to an array.
e.g.
var myString = "000111000111";
//magic code converts
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I have learned from a video tutorial (Flash CS5 in the Family 23: Banner Ad Part 1)to use the F5 key to set the length of a time line of a particular image.When using the F5 key on the MAC keyboard, it will only allow for the audio to be worked with.I've tried Apple+F5, Option+F5, Ctrl+F5 etc.What am I missing?
View 1 RepliesI have a line which is stage.stageWidth long.Now i need in enter frame to shorten this line (like an reverse preloader, but its not a preloader) so that in given time value its length becomes 0.so from stage.stageWidth to 0 in given time.
View 8 RepliesI 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?
in as3 how do i get the text of a textfield to know when to line break according to the width of the textfield.
View 4 RepliesI have an input text box and need to control the line length max char 20 for each line using AS3.
View 2 RepliesI am totally new to Flash. I want to be able to draw a line and then be able to click on it and drag to change its length.
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
Got 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 Repliesi have a slideshow with a delay of for example 3 seconds, and a preloader which is a line with a 100px final length.i start preloading next image.now if the time until next image loads is longer than slideshow delay, i will show next image as soon as it loads.if the time until next image loads is shorter that than slideshow delay, i want to wait additional time until delay and then show the image.the problem is how do i represent smooth line width grow (being enter frame or tween) by calculating/comparing 2 values together (delay and loader percent, which goes from 0 - 100) ?if my line growth represent just a slideshow delay, then when it gets to an end, if next image still hasnt loaded, then it wont look good if line has come to an end, but i still have to wait.
View 4 RepliesI 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 RepliesI'd like to be able to draw in a specific layer. I've tried using a mock MoviceClip (empty) that lies in it's specific layer like such:
Code:
mock_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("line_mc", depth);
line_mc.lineStyle(1,0x000000,100);
line_mc.moveTo(150,200);
line_mc.lineTo(300,200);
But it just does not work! Gaaaah, im getting crazy over this. Aren't we supposed to be able to draw into any MovieClip?
Is there a way to draw a line on a graph (or at least get the position) on specific date?
I have a graph where X is Date data, I want to draw a line with a text on each Year and each 3 months as reference, not part of the graph series.
Let's say I have array foo and a positive integer y, where foo.length > y.I want to remove elements from foo so that foo.length becomes y (or very close to it).Also, I need to preserve the first and last element of foo. The indices of the removed elements must be spaced apart as equally as possible. Foo can be sliced, or it can be used to create a new array.
Example: if foo = [a,b,c,d,e,f,g,1,2,3,4,5] and y = 6, then trimmedfoo could be [a,c,e,g,2,4,5] or maybe [a,c,e,2,4,5], but not [a,c,e,g,2,4] because the last element of foo is missing.
how to do this
function foo(x:*, ...args):* {
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function bar(x:*, ...args):* {[code].....
how to expand args ? when I call bar(1,2,3), I wish it call foo(1,2,3), but it call foo(1,[2,3])
Is there any way to determine if a (anonymous) function has defined the ...(rest) parameter in ActionScript 3? I know there's the function.length property, but it only counts the explicitly defined arguments.
View 2 RepliesI have a Dynamic TextField defined in the Flash Authoring Tool set to be multiline (cause the app can receive data from outside and it can be either 1 line or 1000 lines) but unfortunately the flash player just renders 1 line in the TextField, of a total that would have upwards of 100 lines.
I tried the following property:
textField.multiline = true;
but without success.
I use Flash CS4
i have a text field with text within it. Im wanting to get the line number of that text element once its clicked. Using an event listener I can get a specific value
PHP Code:
function clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {
trace(myTF.getLineText(0));
}
Of course I would have to use either an if statement or an if statement within a for loop, but what would I check it against?
I have an input textfield nested inside a movieclip, i embedded a set of characters but when i run the movie i can still input characters that were not part of the embedding list. The input text field has both an instance name and variable name. If i copy that text field into an empty fla file, it works correctly by not allowing character inputs that were not embedded.
View 1 RepliesThere is an attribute .restrict but as the defined it only prevents other characters from entering the textfield, restricting the textfield to the given characters. I want to prevent characters 1-10 from entering the textfield. The code below does not work the right way.
txt.border = true; //
function down(event:KeyboardEvent):void
{
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