ActionScript 3.0 :: HtmlText Anchor Tags Do Not Support Title Attribute For Tooltips?
Feb 5, 2010
I'm working on a project and I'm encountering an issue with Flash's sporadic support of HTML 1.01 for textboxes that use .htmlText.The "Title" attribute is not supported for showing tooltips when you hover over the link.For instance, in an HTML document, a href='index.html' title='Click Here' will show 'Click Here' in a hovering tooltip box. It doesn't display in Flash.Anyone know of a good work around? I found this page: have yet to get it working with my text. For instance, I have one textbox, and the URL links are set for various words. This means I don't have the coordinates to set my X and Y for the fake hover effect.
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Jun 24, 2009
I have some HTML loaded from an XML document that includes web links (anchor tags). I am using a TextField object to display the text, and am plugging the XML data into the htmlText property of the TextField, and the text is rendering with HTML markup, links are working etc.
The problem I'm seeing is that a new line is created before and after the link, so html like this:
hello world <a href ="#">this is a link</a> and all of this should be on the same line.
is rendered like this (with specific attention paid to the new lines): Does anyone know of a way to prevent these new lines from appearing when using HTML links within a TextField?
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Dec 15, 2006
I have been trying to figure out how you could add in custom attribute tags that flash can recover.
EX:
<param name = "movie" value = "somefile.swf">
<embed src = "somefile.swf" width = "550" height = "400">
Except, that I would like to add a Custom tag, like "randNum" so that the tag user could input some number, or rather, a flash movie could generate a tag with a number already put in...Basically, heres a really basic version of the idea.There is a Flash Movie.In the movie, you can input text into a textfield.Upon finishing your message, you click a button "save".
The flash movie then:
1. Comes up with a random number unique to the message.
2. Assigns that number to a variable... "randNum".
3. Saves message as a xml file to the server as "filename" + randNum.
4. Outputs into a textfield a generated HTML tag that a user can post on myspace and such so that it will load in the flash movie.
Except... in the tag, there will be a custom attribute. If the random number variable "randNum" was 00112233, the custom attribute will be 00112233.
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<embed src = "somefile.swf" width = "550" height = "400" randNum = "00112233">
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Apr 18, 2008
I have a flex Text field that previously I was declaring and initializing as pure flex mxml. The htmlText field had an anchor tag in it that worked just fine. I'm declaring and initializing this Text field in an mx:script block, and the anchor tag no longer is recognized. Every other concievable tag work as before - <font, <u, and so on - but not <a. For example in the following:
txt1.htmlText = "<u><a href='http://www.google.com'>testing</a></u>";
the text is underlined but there is no link and the cursor doesn't change.
More maddening arbitrary b.s. from flex/as3.
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Apr 20, 2006
I have a database popping out XML documents. I need to access those docs from Flash and parse
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I need to convert that to work in Flash but I cant change the XML. I figured that I will have to parse through things line by line and strip out values of ***.xml and the ID# but I have no idea how to construct a link that will load, retarget the myText object and then jump to the anchor in XML/html format. Are Anchor tags allowed?
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Feb 19, 2009
Can I use stylesheets with pseudo classes? Basically I want to use multiple anchor tags each having unique 'hower' style.
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I know to use Textfield.Stylesheet class in flash, but will it really work the way it works in a normal html page with multiple anchor styles?
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Dec 27, 2007
I am quite new to using XML in Flash.My problem is: I want to load an attribute called "title" from XML to Flash, and arrange them along the width of Flash screen (just like a navigation). I wrote the code, but it does not work (see attachment)
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May 20, 2011
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Apr 8, 2008
I dunno if any of you are familliar with Lightbox at all? I'd like to be able to call this from Flash. It works well in an "<a>" tag in HTML.As an example: <a href="gallerypics/Juniors2001.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="juniors 2001" >where I can use a rel and title tag to call the necessary scripts.Is there any way of including rel and title tags in flash along with the regular link?
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Aug 22, 2006
I'd like to be able to call this from Flash. It works well in an "<a>" tag in HTML.As an example: <a href="gallerypics/Juniors2001.jpg" rel= "light box" title="juniors 2001" >where I can use a rel and title tag to call the necessary scripts.Is there any way of including rel and title tags in flash along with the regular link?
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Nov 10, 2004
In the following XML doc my attempt at retrieving the title attribute returns undefined, what have I missed?
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Nov 12, 2009
The title says it all. I am using CS4 with AS 3.0. Does htmlText property on components support CSS styles???
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Feb 15, 2009
I'm working on a textField overflow system for a project at the moment.I cant find a way to return a textField's htmlText complete with the original html tags.The system is used for splitting up a textField above a particular height into two textFields so the side of each other. The system works perfectly with unformatted text, but I cant seem to extract the formatting tags out of the left textField and apply them to the right - all I can get is plain text. (The system uses a StyleSheet by the way - so it is applied to both textFields).I 've tried:
Code:
if (leftField.textHeight > contentHeight) {
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The commented out code represents the alternative method I've tried (still fails).
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Jan 16, 2012
I'd like to remove the font tags from the htmlText string produced by a TextField leaving the surrounding nodes and any bold etc tags within intact.
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<html><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="...
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Feb 27, 2012
I have the following code in AS3:
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Mar 11, 2004
A friend is building a blog, with entries placed in a database, pulled out with php, and then passed to flash. It all goes well except for one thing...problems with html. She's using a tutorial from webmonkey and here's all the actionscript, as it originally was created:
Code:
//function to load external data using the loadVars() object
//l=name of loadVars object
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the result: everything loaded in the .swf except the title of her entry over the entry itself. There is a bold html tag around that part, she removed it and voila! The title appeared. But now there's another html tag that starts off a line of code, and it's failing. Click on the entries, and nothing loads except the - between the date and title. Here is that section of code:
Code:
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Feb 12, 2010
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May 17, 2010
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Feb 1, 2011
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Mar 18, 2010
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Jan 11, 2011
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May 25, 2010
i'm a novice to ActionScript but from failed Google function searches, i think i've choosen an advanced i hope possible task: how to read then apply bezier, anchor point and handle positions to different anchor points. What i need to do is precisely align a rectangular closed bezier path with a randomly shaped closed bezier path, both with the same number of anchor points.
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is it possible to change the icon and the title in the title bar? are there any opensource or low cost ways (prehaps software with a education licence) to change the apperance of the projector window.. like for example itunes, breaks out of windows xp standard UI
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May 5, 2011
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Nov 18, 2010
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Sep 10, 2009
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