ActionScript 3.0 :: Highlight Different RANGES Of Text With Different Styles?
Feb 12, 2010
I want to highlight different RANGES of text with different styles. (for instance, make character 1-10 bold, 15-18 italic, etc..)
TextRange looks like the appropriate tool, but when I loop through, and create multiple TextRanges for each area/style, the resulting display only appears to show the last one.
Code:
for (var counter:Number=0; counter < testVtt.markUps.length; counter++)
{
var m:MarkUp=testVtt.markUps[counter];
I used to have a little text panel (that sat with the color, swatches, and align panels) that I was able to open up and edit text size, color, underline, etc with. It had a much better text editing ability then the properties panel, seeing as the properties panel does not even bother to allow me to underline text or to highlight and edit a single word in a whole text box. Now I don't have it, I can't find the damn thing anywhere, and I want it back. How can I get it?
I'm importing XML text and sticking it in a text field. The text has some <span> tags with classes. Also importing a CSS file (verifying that it is importing correctly - at least when I trace it it says [object StyleSheet] - can I trace styles within a stylesheet? Or do an "exploded" trace that shows me everything in the stylesheet?)
Here's the key data:
AS (note default formatting, content, etc is working perfectly)
I've been involved in a webproject where text will be converted into speech. Then the text should be highlighted word by word as the audio is played in the browser.
I need to assign styles (bold, italic, ...) to chunks of text in a textfield with embedded fonts (defaultTextFormat) wich is XML loaded:- HTML tags: simply ignored- CSS: Error #2009: This method cannot be used on a text field with a style sheet.at flash.text::TextField/set defaultTextFormat()
I guess I'm ignoring something obvious, it can't be so difficult!
I know that I can use CSS styles with HTML-formatted text in Actionscript. I have TextField, and there is HTML-text such as b and p tags. I want to change styles of those elements. I know a lot of CSS, but I don't know how to use it with Actionscript 3 and Flash. Here's my code.
I need to assign styles (bold, italic, ...) to chunks of text in a textfield with embedded fonts (defaultTextFormat) wich is XML loaded:
- HTML tags: simply ignored - CSS: Error #2009: This method cannot be used on a text field with a style sheet.at flash.text::TextField/set defaultTextFormat()[code]
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For some reason though the styles are only being applied to the last set of text being added. for example, if there are three events on a certain day, i will list the three events but only the 3rd event will have the styling. If there's 2 events that day, the 2nd event will have styling, if there's 10 events, the 10th event will have the styling. Why are they not all being styled and only the last one?
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it is possible to change text styles of single words or lines within a textfield with actionscript. I use an empty textfield and add my text to that field in actionscript with the following code:
myTfield.text = "insert text here"
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[Code]...
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