ActionScript 3.0 :: XML Loaded Dynamic TextFields Length Of Stage?
Apr 29, 2009
Am trying to create a scrolling sidebar(top to bottom). Within this sidebar, dynamic textFields are being created and populated with XML. The XML is of "Sporting Events". Within each "Sporting Event" 3 variables exist, Name, Location & Date. What I've got, is AS loading the XML and populating ONE "Sporting Event" (3 textFields with name, location & date). I have to specify the position on stage of the textFields, not very dynamic if i'm to have numerous, but they work.
What has me contemplating jumping off the roof right now, is trying to understand how I'm to create an infinite number of textFields (only room for 10 "Sporting Events" (30 total textFields) on stage at a time), and have them continuously load the XML with different "Sporting Events". As they scroll off the stage, either they unload, remove, die or however's best.
I've tried creating an array and inserting the textFields into it, then running it through a for loop to load the XML. I can't get it to work properly, because I don't understand how to create infinite textFields, increment the XML and load it to the next available textField.
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Aug 20, 2009
Ok, let's see it:
ActionScript Code:
for (i=a; i<=4; i++) {
aux = _root["mc_dest"+i];
[Code]....
the focus on it is see if the "titulo" is longer than 26 characters, if it's true the just "cut" it on the 26 and then add "..." to the text.
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Feb 23, 2010
I have inherited a huge application (several thousand lines of code spanning roughly 40 files) to which I must add some functionalities. Now I haven't even started on modifying the code yet because of a problem when loading the Flash file. The Flash files represent a whole website "creator" or "manager" depending on how you see it. It allows end-users to add buttons, images, text fields, etc. inside which other buttons/images/texts can be added. Basically, it's some kind of WYSIWYG editor. I did not create this but I agreed to work on it for some time if I can get it working.
There is a main file, aptly named index.swf, which loads other files (the website file, or the text editor file, etc.) according to what the user is trying to do. If a user is simply viewing the website, then it displays the website. If a user is modifying the website (after authentication), it displays the website AND a management interface, which allows the user to add, modify or remove controls on the site.My problem is that all TextFields display their content (the text) properly when the website is displayed but they display nothing when the management interface is displayed. In other words, a user viewing the website will see all texts in it; a user modifying it will not.
The way this works is that the main SWF (index.swf) creates an empty movieclip for the website and loads the website (another SWF) inside it. Then it creates other movie clips and loads other SWFs inside them for the management interface.The TextFields inside the website SWF contain the appropriate text and have an appropriate font set up (I am able to display it using Alert.show) but their textHeight and textWidth properties are 0, which to me is not normal.
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May 4, 2011
What im looking to do is dynamically create TextFields based on my array.length. So if I have 3 strings in my array then 3 TextFields with the array text needs to be created.
I've managed to actually create TextFields based on the array.length - however afterwards I dont know how to reference them individually, to lets say re-position x, y for array[1]. I've tried saving the Textfields in another array by .push method, but can't seem to reference them correctly.
//Create textfields based on data in Array - in this case 3 textfields
var textArray:Array = new Array('First TextField','TextField Two','Anything, really');
//Array to .push "save" created textfields
[Code]....
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Feb 5, 2010
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) {
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Nov 9, 2011
I was wondering if there is a way to make the actual stage dynamic to the content loaded in the flash file.
Firstly the method I am using is importing a external swf to the stage into a container called container. The main stage, lets call it index, is still on default size, and I want this to expand dynamically as content is loaded in. page1 may be 900px width, page2 may be 500px width, and as I load the content the index stage should expand the width to that of the page loaded. Some steps I have tried but did not work.
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Sep 20, 2010
Code from the character package (einstein.as):
Code:
//load sound
public function talk(url:String):void
{
[Code]....
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[AS]
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[code]....
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Apr 29, 2011
I tried to change the textfield on the stage from an external class but it doesn't work.Thats the code how I tried it:[code]On my stage I got a textfield wich is dynamically with the instancename: "abc".But everytime I start the program flash tells me stage.getChildByName("abc") would be a null-object.
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Jan 8, 2010
I have to make all the textfields on the stage selectable through actionscript.Currently its a tedious task since there are more than 1000 files for which the textfields are to be made selectable. All of these files get loaded in a main shell.fla.Is there a way to write a script that would make all the textfields on the stage selectable???
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Dec 21, 2009
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?
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Dec 21, 2009
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Sep 12, 2011
What is difference between Using Device Fonts and Using Embedded Fonts for dynamic textfields?
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Feb 16, 2007
why are the dynamic textfields selectable? The textfield is inside a movieclip. Once the clips are attached, why can they not act like buttons?
ActionScript Code:
xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
[Code].....
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Dec 11, 2007
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Mar 13, 2010
so i want to have my dynamic text listed with a consistent space between each textfield. However, the textfields can have varying amounts of text, so just doing txt.y = t*40 would not cut it. I've tried getting txt.length to calculate how many lines it would be, but if i change the font size it changes everything.
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Nov 13, 2009
make an xml driven player with a couple of tuts of the net.Here is the code:
Code:
var xmlRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("content.xml");
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(xmlRequest);
var imgData:XML;
[code]...
It displays both images and movieclips.How can I make it that it when a movieclip is loaded it waits for it to finish and then switches (rather than the 2 sec swap I have right now).
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Sep 11, 2009
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[Code]...
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Aug 2, 2006
is it possible to set the text size for ALL the textfields in the movie with one script? Even if they have no instance names, even if they are created dynamically,...
Maybe some prototype which activates after the textfield is "created"?
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Feb 5, 2003
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.
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Nov 9, 2010
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May 28, 2009
I have 3 textfields. they're in a sprite container. 1. date 2. pipe_mc movieclip 3. title field. I need to set it so that the textfield/mc/textfield;s x property changes dynamically when a shorter or longer date gets added into the field, via XML.
[Code]....
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Nov 29, 2010
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And I have another dynamic text field called "tsc" where I have to display the tags like excellent , good, better ......etc. Till now every thing is fine but I am unable to compare them it is displaying excellent even if i get 10 marks. If the score is greater than 55 "tsc" should display Excellent, if the score is greater than 41 or less than 55 "tsc" should display Best, if the score is greater than 26 or less than 40 "tsc" should display Better,if the score is none of the above "tsc" should display Poor.
This is my code on the submit button:
on (release) {
gotoAndStop("sQ");
if (scor>=55) {
tsc = "Excellent";
} else if (scor == 41 && scor<=55) {
[Code] .....
Where:"sQ" is the frame name where i am displaying the score details"scor" is the var name for the dynamic text field for displaying total score"tsc" is the var name for the dynamic text field for displaying the tags llike good, Excellent, better, poor.....etc.
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Aug 12, 2010
I want to populate the stage with a list of dynamic text fields with individual names, something like pg4_txt1, pg4_txt2, pg4_txt3. I'm a novice at flash, I tried creating variables with a while loop, but I just haven't got the grasp of it.
Here's some kind of weird pseudo code to explain what I want to do:
var leading:Number = 15;
var i:Number = 0;
while (i<14) {
[Code].....
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Feb 5, 2009
I have a few textField objects that are created dynamically with XML. I want to space them evenly horizontally, how would I do that? So far this is all I have, but it does not account for different character lengths per textField.
Code:
for (var i:int = 0; i < xmlList.length(); i++) {
var tf:TextField = new TextField();
[code]........
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Sep 13, 2009
In my project, several textField mclips are created dynamically. These mclips pull their content from an XML from.
The text is formatting partially using TextFormat, but I have been unsuccessful setting the font family.
I think this is because the content is dynamic and called from the XML.
In any case, I then tried to set the font family using mx.styles, but also with no luck:
import mx.styles.CSSStyleDeclaration;
var text_style:Object = new CSSStyleDeclaration();
_global.styles.myStyle = text_style;
[Code].....
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Aug 19, 2010
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Yet what appears onscreen, is:
"lease do not enter more ino tan neesary."
This happens no matter how big I make the text area, or how small I make the text, so I don't get why it's not all viewed. (Btw When I copy from the textfield I do get all the text)
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Jun 29, 2004
how to embed fonts as for some reason i can get the font im using to show up Here is the script i used to create the textfields:
[Code]...
as you can see from the 2 images i have put up with the fonts active on my system e.g font_on the text is ok but with the fonts turned of e.g fonts_off i get a different text even thou the fonts are done addressed in my script.
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Apr 15, 2005
I'm creating dynamic buttons, I'm using textFields to make them.I have a problem with the text on them.I want the text to wrap, autosize and be multiline - ie I want the button to be a certain width and if the text is longer for a particular button the button will be higher with the text going onto the next line.Here is the code I'm using...
c._y = 40 * i;
c.createTextField("chap" + i, i, 10, 100, 150, 35);
var tf = c["chap" + i];[code]....
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Feb 18, 2009
I have flash file with 5 dynamic textfields which reads everyday from an array 365 (year) inside the file what I want is to read from an xml file instead.
The first layer contains this code the arrays:
function make365() {
arr1[49] = "05:30"
arr2[49] = "12:35"
arr3[49] = "13:10"
arr4[49] = "15:55"
arr5[49] = "18:20"
[Code] .....
The stage contains 5 dynamic textfields each one named respectively quote1 ,quote2 ,quote3, quote4 and quote5. How can I make the function 365() reads from an xml file instead.?
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