I just got my scrolling text to work here, but it isn'tformatting the way I want. I think I have code correct, but maybejust in the wrong place. AS3 gods, I'mlearning.
var external_txt:TextField = new TextField();
var myFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
var externalReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest("external.txt");
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I have this flash form and it was functioning fine a minute ago, when you go to contact us and click contact us you will see the form only inputs in all caps and for some reason it will not let you type every letter it is driving me insane.
View 1 RepliesI make RSS reader in flash. I have a text field and when I place RSS text and images in that text field I need to have a text in the new line after picture. But now I have image from the left and text from the right.
View 1 RepliesI make RSS reader in flash. I have a text field and when I place RSS text and images in that text field I need to have a text in the new line after picture. But now I have image from the left and text from the right.
View 2 Replieswhy my text is coming up with default formatting? just a simple scrolling text field I plan to import to existing flash site as SWF
import flash.text.TextFormat;
var servText:TextField = new TextField();
var servFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
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I have a site that externally loads several txt files that are formatted with html. They work fine until I go to a certain section within my site, then try to go back to another section and the headlines of the text disapear. Check out my site to see what I mean. Go to home, then news, then press. In the text boxes you will be orange headlines but then go to contact and try to go back to home, news or press....and all the orange headlines have disappeared. [URL]
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to load an external txt document into a flash CS3 movie, I also have two buttons in order to controll the scrolling feature, I also want to change the size, font and color of the text dynamically as it comes into flash, I have added the variables and such, but when I test the movie, I get no errors, but the text has not changed in terms of color, font, or size, it just stays the same...the code is below
var external_txt:TextField = new TextField();
var myFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
var externalReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest("external.txt");
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I'm loading a textField with addChild in a movieClip and want the external text file I am loading into this textField to render in the textField as HTML. I have attached the code I am using.
View 3 RepliesAnyone know of a good program such as:WYSIWYG text editor for hyperlinks and text formatting that exports to swf.
View 2 RepliesI'm building this flash site for a friend and he wants to be able to edit the contents and maintain the site by himself later on. So naturally, I used a dynamic text field that uses URLloader to link to an external html, dandy. Problem is, my friend wants to use dreamweaver to edit the contents of html (or even just a word document exported as html) and it's just driving him nuts because the text look nothing like that way it did in DW when it's loaded into the dynamic text field (extra spacing and line break popping up randomly everywhere). Is there an alternative solution other then telling him to just edit it in notepad? What if I switch over to XML?
View 2 Repliesmake one word in a dynamic text field bold WITHOUT using the htmlText property? Everything I have read seems to indicate that you can only make the whole field bold.
View 3 RepliesI'm trying to pull a variable from an ASP page that's pulling it's info from a database. The ASP page has a response.write that outputs &ScrollText = text that comes from the database. The ASP page works fine, but when I try to pull in the variable in Flash, it takes in all the html URL escapes, i.e.: %20 for a space %22 for a ", etc. I've tried using Server.URLEncode in my ASP page, but that didn't help any. I'm displaying this text in a dynamic text box with a scroll bar.
View 1 Replieswhy can't i format my text when i am in the dynamic text setting. i mean justifying and all that?
View 1 RepliesI'm using a Loader component to load and external swf which dynamically loads external jpegs (it's a photo gallery). When I test the movie locally all looks well with the external swf positioned exactly where I put it on the main stage. However, once loaded to my web host the external swf is bumped downward about 150 px.
View 1 RepliesGot an external swf linked into my main file. The swf plays fine on its own, is clickable & moves to different frames. When I play the main swf, the external loads when prompted but buttons inside don't work correctly like it does on its own. What the heck?
View 2 RepliesI'm playing around with a messaging type of application. Does anyone know how, or of any tutorials on to "appending" html text to text areas in flex and flex mobile projects? And specifically how I could take that and basically "append" a sprite inline to the text when i need to? Something simple like:Username: some text right here!So, Anyone have any experience "appending" sprites or simple text formatting?how to solve these issues!EDIT:Based on an answer below it was sugguested that it's as simple as...textAreaInstance.htmlText += "<b>Username:</b> some text right here!";But its not. you can't do .htmltext with a text area. you can on a text field, so i tried
var TF:TextField = new TextField();
TF.width = 200;
TF.height = 200;
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I am working on a project where I have made a Text Formatter by which I can format the text of three input text field.My formatter works fine, but the problem is that when I format the first text field it works good, but in the second or third textfield I have to press the formatting button twice for each format option (such as bold , italic or alignment).Another problem is that when I reopen the formatter it format the text field with last option I have used.
View 4 RepliesI'm trying to format an XML file so I can have HTML tags on it for bold, italic, underline, etc... but its not working. When I'm not using any HTML tags my subtitle works great but when I put the tags the player reads the time tag not the sutitle!!
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i have set a textfield's text from an XML and now I am trying to format it with css. the xml text loads all fine and the css loads but they are not working together.
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i am not too familiar with css or html but studied up on css and based on all of the searching i did i am not able to find out what i am doing wrong here. do i need to set the xml with standard html language/nodes?
I have a file where I am importing info from an XML file using atttributes. It works fine, except I no longer want the font to be embedded. I want to either call if in from a stylesheet or set it in the actionscript, so it uses same arial or san serif used on the rest of the web site it is a part of.
my code.......
var myImages:Array = new Array();
var myXml:XML = new XML();
//
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I have a flash (flex actionscript project) that has to pass data to javascript in cyrrilic through externalinterface. However, data turns out at the javascript end in ????? instead of real cyrillic letters
how can this be fixed so it shows up as cyrillic?
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Alright, so I've tried quite a few things with no luck. I have a scrollbar that works in the swf fine, but when loaded into my mainmovie container I get this error...
Target not found: Target = "/scrolling text " Base = "_levelO.swf container"
Basically I understand this to mean that the externally loaded movie cannot find the instance name /scrolling text. The code is as follows that I have set to the scrollbar button in the externally loaded swf....
on (rollOver) {
tellTarget ("/scrollingtext") {
nextFrame();
} gotoAndStop("down1");
}
I tried changing the target to _root.scrollingtext with no luck. Also tried _parent.
I need now is, to load it and format certain parts of it automatically.For example, I have a blog with lots of posts, and the posts are:
---------begin-------
TITLE
DATE
Content
----------end--------
And so, I need the title and the date to be one font, with different colors between them, and the content is another font, on a third color.I have to do this because I've been putting the posts directly inside flash, and they got so long after a while, that I can't have all of them on my screen at any one time, they exceeded flash's height limit...so, to edit the older ones, I need to keep scrolling everything up, which is a pain.
Why is the following not working to set my text style?
private function createTF():void
{
tipTxt = new TextField();
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I'm running into issues with using HTML formatting for a dymanic text field. I know these are quirky and I cannot figure out how to get the formatting proper.I have on my stage a dynamic text box called "content_txt" inside of a movie clip instance "content_mc". When it enters the frame, I fade the "content_mc" from alpha 0 to 100 using a timeline animation. In order for this to work, I have to embed the font in my "content_txt" text field. However, the only way I get get the HTML formatting to work is if I do not embed the font.
The dymanic text field is set to render as HTML. In my actions layer, I set the text:
this.content_mc.content_txt.htmlText = "<b>Hello world,</b> it is me again."
In summary: 1. If I do not embed the font, the alpha fade does not work but the HTML formatting does.
2. If I embed the font, the alpha fade works but the HTML formatting does not.
How do I resolve this? It's driving me nuts!
I have a dynamic TextField with very wide letter spacing in my .fla. However, whenever I change the text in the TextField using actionscript, the letter spacing resets. Is there a way to keep that from happening? And why does it happen in the first place
View 1 Repliesbasically I have an admin flex page that allows the user to enter text into database. Then the frontend app will take the database entries and display them to the user. However there is no formatting. Do I need to insert html into the database then read that html again?For the user using the admin, they probably wont know html, so is there a simpler way to format?
View 1 RepliesI have two text boxes on the same window. They are both set to Arial 14 Regular but they both appear very differently. To see what I am referring to: [URL] and go to the Conversion Tools at the bottom of the page. Click on Surface Finish and type in a value in the two different fields and click calculate. I really don't see anything that could be causing this difference in appearance.
View 2 RepliesCan I set the font size for string? I want to do text formatting for string, Is it possible in flex?
View 3 RepliesIf I create an html textfield and give the text the bold tags, when I run a getTextFormat() the bold returns null. Here is the scenario I made up to replicate this.
1. I created a textfield where I set the html text to
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<b>Some bold text</b>
2. I take the html formated text from the first textfield which is
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<P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="12" COLOR="#000000" LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0"><B>Some bold text</B></FONT></P>
3. I apply the html text to another textfield and check for bold.
4. The bold is null instead of true