ActionScript 3.0 :: Handling Quote Characters From XML
Jul 24, 2009
What's the best way to handle the " symbol, dynamically written to XML output from a PHP upon request, and then pulled into Flash, parsed, and assigned to a String?Should the entire node's data be wrapped as CDATA in the XML document? But when when it gets assigned as a String in Flash, will Flash freak out because there's a " in it?Should PHP write escape characters into the node's text to escape quotes, ampersands, gt/lt, and apostrophes (and then will Flash handle these ok?)? Or should PHP convert all unsafe characters into their HTML equivalent?What about the British pound symbol? We're using UTF-8, so is there a safe way to handle this?
Create a flash application which will be displayed on a web page which will read from a list of text inside an XML file and display them randomly with fade-in fade-out effects and also at random positions.My current approach to the problem is using a Dynamic Text Area which will read from the xml file, however I only got to the stage where the swf will read the xml file. Trying to get the fade effect and the positioning effect is proving very difficult for me.The sample XML I am working with:
<tag> <tagline>Global Jobs Pact</tagline> <tagline>Green Jobs</tagline> <tagline>Decent Work</tagline>[code]......
I have a flash front end that displays information and is capable of building MySQL queries and handing them off to PHP via loadVars. PHP handles the dirty work of connecting to the database, executing the queries, and returning any results. So my problem is with single quotes. In flash I can build the query string with single quotes easy enough, but for some reason php keeps doubling them up and messing up the query.
Here is an example of the flash code: ActionScript Code: var send_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); var load_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); load_lv.onLoad = function(bSuccess){ if(bSuccess){ trace(this.output); [Code] .....
The problem is that the sql statement that php is trying to execute looks like this: insert into mytable (field1, field2) values (''value1'', ''value2'') Where each single quote has been turned into two single quotes for some reason.
How do I escape double quote " in XML when I load it in Flash? I use createTextField and I have created a Font in the Library. I use TextFormat to embed the font. When just use " in my XML file, it will show " in my flashmovie, why is that?
I'm using the quote randomizer from kirupa, but the same couple lines out text seems to arise far too frequently. any ideas? I was thinking that i could remove the random part of the script, and just make it go from 1-100 in order,
current AS: /**************************************** **Random Quotes Script*******************
i want a quote to appear in the dynamic text box but obviously you cant just write it as it thinks its text data, but im thinking its " but how do impliment it, i want a quote before and after +username_ti.text+ _parent.user_mc.user_ti.text = "Welcome you are currently logged in as " + username_ti.text +"
I've been messing around with this XML random quote rotators from this site but I'm unable to make it so it doesn't repeat the same quote twice. It has a tendency to show the same quote 3x in a row.
PHP Code: //importing tween classesimport fl.transitions.Tween; import fl.transitions.easing.*; //we create a variable to store the loaded XMLvar xml:XML; //the path to the xml filevar xmlPath:String = "data/quotes.xml"; [Code] .....
I am build a rotating quote display for a website I'm working on -- the quotes come from a MySQL database and are displayed with PHP. A new (randomly selected) quote needs to fade in and then out every few seconds.I am mildly accustomed to Flash and know PHP and MySQL very well, so I was able to get the database interaction and whatnot going. You can see my progress here: [URL]I am willing to post the .fla file;
I don't need a website designed, just a flash 'movie'-style animation (2 min. approx. duration)I've created static content in Ai CS4 that I just need to be animated, and I could supply people with a storyboard. Similar look to the animation on this site: URL.. but with more complex animations and graphics.[code]
I have an XML driven Flash site and can't get quote marks to work in Flash 6. They show up fine in version 7 and 8 of the flash player. Here's what I'm doing:
My XML file: (added line breaks just for this example)
[Code]...
how to get this working in Flash 6? We really want to use REAL quote marks.
I'm trying to produce a one frame random quote field. I have a dynamic text field "quotebox" with the var of "quotefield" rn=random(10); loadText=new loadVars(); loadText.load("quotes.txt"); quotern=["quote"+rn]; loadText.onLoad=function() { quotefield.text=quotern; };
That's what I have for code. On the qoutes.txt file I have quote1-quote10 listed. I can get the quotern to display in the text field but can't get the quotes in the text field unless I do this loadText.onLoad=function() { quotefield.text=quote10; Add the quote# to the code which then displays the quote.
I'm trying to populate a Flash quote system with XML but as try as I may I'm unable to get the subsuboption (like Jewelcase --> Insert --> Glossy finish) to work.
Basically this quoting system has been dumped on my desk and I have till Monday to update it (I'm a graphic designer not a flash developer and I don't have a clue as to what I'm doing!).
The AS Code is:
Code: var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, LoadXML); var xmlData:XML = new XML();
[Code].....
Now I can get it to compile, but when it goes to pull the data it will work upto the Suboptions and then any code further on fails to load (so I suspect there is something wrong with either the XML or the AS tying to the XML).
I am having issue with my created flash, it can't handle chinese characters? is there some way i can handle this thru code? or should there be any font or language pack installed
1) Each field in the form only allows 3 characters and no special characters such as @ _ ! . , etc... 2) When the user goes to the next field in the form, the previous field appears blank but the when clicking on that again, the original text appears. 3) When submitting the form, it just keeps saying "in progress" and never shows the confirmation text nor does the email get sent. There is an HTML file included with this form but I am not sure if I need to put that in as I have embedded this form into an SWF file so I don't think I need that code but let me know if I am wrong about this. I am posting both the AS code and PHP code below..
When changing wmode to transparent or opaue, or just by default, some browers change the @ to a " ... so you have to use the opposite button, ie shift-2.The only fix I know is to run a listener and switch double quotes for @ symbols...
I followed the Random Quote Tutorial, pretty self explanatory really as all the tutorials are. is simple to have a whole bunch of words, load them randomly into a text box and then animate that text box randomly on the stage. So for example I'd have 'BLAH' loaded into a random area on the stage (or a specific set of coords if needs be) and then 'BLAH' would scale up from zero to fade out into _alpha=0 and a massive scale.
The problem I'm having is that whilst I can follow the random quote tutorial that relies on pressing a button to trigger the quote being loaded, thats my first problem. How to load the random word into this text box to then be displayed on the screen, do something with that text box (the animation) then loop back round once its finished. I'm assuming I get this by....if textbox._alpha = 0 then go back to the beginning type thing?!
I am using this random code below to choose a quote to display and I want to move the quotes list to a text file.
Code: quotes = [Fish are the last to recognize water.","I am my brains publisher.", "Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created.","Curiosity is the mother of intelligence.","Thinking is drawing in your head.","A person without imagination is like a teabag without water.","Realism is a corruption of reality.","Its always better to be looked over than to be overlooked.","The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.","The soul has no secrets that conduct does not reveal.","Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.","Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.","If you want to get lucky... it pays to get ready" ,"Realism is the corruption of reality","I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.","Music is noise submitted to order by wisdom.","God...invented the giraffe,the elephant,the cat.He has no real style.He just goes on inventing things.","The person you love is 72.8% water."]
As part of my brief, I have to create a small flash movie that will load a random quote (which is actually a jpeg image), fade it in to view, display it for a length of time (probably only 3-5 seconds), fade it out and then load another random quote. Is this possible to do, purely using actionscript? I can randomly load an image - I used the "Random Background Image" tutorial on this site - but getting the fading/pausing/fading then moving to another quote has got me stumped.
The images are imported into their own swf file that is loaded into a placeholder movie on the html page. I tried adding in a for loop to the individual swf and the placeholder movie, to loop through alpha property of the image (just to fade up for the moment, till I get it working) - but this didn't work at all. I could use tweens for the fading, but this could end up a mess and more work than it needs to be as there could be quite a lot of quotes added over time.
I am using this random code below to choose a quote to display and I want to move the quotes list to a text file, can point me in the right direction I cant seem to get it to work.
Code:
quotes = [Fish are the last to recognize water.","I am my brains publisher.", "Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created.","Curiosity is the mother of intelligence.","Thinking is drawing in your head.","A person without imagination is like a teabag without water.","Realism is a corruption of reality.","Its always better to be looked over than to be noverlooked.","The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.","The soul has no secrets that conduct does not reveal.","Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.","Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.","If you want to get lucky... it pays to get ready" ,"Realism is the corruption of reality","I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.","Music is noise submitted to order by wisdom.","God...invented the giraffe,the elephant,the cat.He has no real style.He just goes on inventing things.","The person you love is 72.8% water."]
I am trying to get metadate from my NetStream object and do things depending on what is going on. here is what I have, but I get an error I don't know what it means.
var customClient:Object = new Object(); customClient.onMetaData = metaDataHandler; function metaDataHandler(infoObject:Object):void {
[code]....
The error I get is:Error #2044: Unhandled AsyncErrorEvent:.text=Error #2095: flash.net.NetStream was unable to invoke callback onMetaData. error=TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties. at AMG_ASP_ICS_072709_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
How do you communicate an error to the web service consumer ?
For example, my web service has a function to insert employee into db.Suppose while inserting the data , the database gave an error,what should be the best way to inform the user about the error.
One way is to depict it through the return value of the web service method but what to do when the function is supposed to return a complex object like employee when there is no error ,and will send an error string when there is an error ?
I have a bit of code listens for a user to click a navigation item, however if they click another nav item then my code loads both of them and puts the content pages on top of each other.I am having loads of problems with this bit of code.
PHP Code: private function _menuSelectHandler (event : MenuEvent):void { if (! event.abstract) {
I have a problem with event handling. I'm working on a calendar, on which events can be listed. With actionscript i loop through an XML file with the days (and if there, the events for that day). So far so good. Where it goes wrong is this: I only want to display blocks with the day numbers on it. When you click on a day, a box pops up and shows the event's for that day.
This is what i did: created a movieclip with classname mc. loop trough the xml file and for each day create a new instance of mc with the day number as text on it. This al works, but now i want to add an eventhandler for each day. How to do this?
I'm asking many questions these days but its really urgent
I am doing an application to load xml file into data grid and everything is done now. The only thing left is that i wanna make sure that if the xml file isn't there, the user will not have a runtime error.I have the following code to load the file.
var myXML:XML = new XML();var XML_URL:String = "questions.xml"; var myXMLURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest(XML_URL);var myLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(myXMLURL); myLoader.addEventListener("complete", xmlLoaded);
i tried many ways i found on the net using try and catch but didnt work. Anyone can write me the peice of code to hande this error if the file is not there??
If I have a graphic that is fully transparent in places, can I make only the non-transparent portions of the graphic respond to mouse clicks? I realize I can probably do this with a few lines of code, e.g. detect the click and then check the alpha value under the mouse. But I was looking for something simple. For example, in Director there is an "alphaThreshold" in a graphic that determines at what alpha value a bitmap will respond to mouse clicks. Does Flash / AS3 have a similar capability?
