My library has an instance of a button symbol which brings up a popup with more information when clicked. All i want to do is change the display text of the button instance. From what i've read i thought i could just double click the instance and modify in the properties but there is nowhere in the properties to change the text.
View 2 RepliesHave a 'text button' that is animated, which has modified text based on a different button that is pressed. In the website, I want the text "Teaching Through Inquiry" to change based on the letter clicked. The animation is tweened, and each letter plays the same animation -- I want the objects to modify to change what comes up.[code]...
View 1 RepliesHow can I change the text of a button instance without affect the other button text? I belive an AS aproach would solve it but I don't know how to do it.
View 1 RepliesIf i create a movieclip named player and in this class there is the proprety map
(a string) and level(an int); I would like to know if there is a way of modifying these propreties without actionscript when i create an instance of that symbol. For exemple, like you would modify the height and the width of a movieclip in flash(the program, not actionscript), but modify this instance's map and level proprieties instead
If i create a movieclip named player and in this class there is the proprety map(a string) and level(an int); I would like to know if there is a way of modifying these propreties without actionscript when i create an instance of that symbol.For exemple, like you would modify the height and the width of the object in flash, but modify this instance's proprieties instead.
View 1 RepliesI am trying to learn Flash and as soon as I think I am in good shape, comes along this "curve ball". Take a look at the .FLA from this site ([URL]) How in the world do the alpha buttons get their captions? I understand the numeric ones, but alphas completely baffle me as there is no code (that I can find) that sets them. I have deleted all of the Actions, I have deleted virtually everything there is, and I still can't figure out how does the button instance appear as the caption in the text box.
View 6 RepliesI have created seven buttons in flash called "button1" through "button7" within each button is a text box. Is there a way to load XML text into each text box within the button instance?
View 4 RepliesI have a website i designed which contains buttons that navigate the user to different points on the timeline using frame labels. when they get to the appropriate frame label, they are presented with a movieclip containing two layers. The bottom layer is a map, and the upper layer is a collection of printer buttons that have a tooltip component on them that show you detailed printer info on mouse over and takes you to the printer remote ui on release. each button has a unique queue name for the appropriate printer as its instance name (ex. itm100_btn). Here's the jist... I want to be able to place a dynamic text box near the printer button and using action script have it display the printer queue name automatically simply based on the button its targeting, or even placing the dynamic txt box inside the printer button mc. See, on some pages, there are like 24 printers... I DREAD having to put all these names in manually as there are like 150 printers total
View 7 RepliesIve made a button (Convert to symbol > Button)and set that up, then made a new layer for a dynamic text box and gave that the name btn_txt so my plan is to just have instances of that button and be able to change the text through actionscript2this is my code and i thought it would work but nothing happens
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ive traced one of the text fields and it returns with undefined ive also tried using _level0. but that does nothing
I have a problem with a button.It has 4 keyframe and a text field with the same instance name "myText".I use this button in a MC, and its instance name is "myBtn".I'm trying to change myText with actionscript in the MC without any results.Debugging it I find a text field insiede this button named "instance6", so i think there is some problem with instance name.
I trying with:
trace(myBtn.myText);
and it says "undefined"!
How can i correctly give instance name to this text field?Is there any way to find out the name of the instance of an object (the text field) knowing the instance name of its parent (the button)?
Is there a way to modify the text size of text added to a ListBox Component in Flash MX?
View 1 RepliesI have many text elements in my flash file - how do I modify the text to make it all caps? Is there an easy way where I can select all of them in one go and make them all caps?
View 7 RepliesI placed a movie clip instance inside a button, and I want this movie clip to play when the button is released. I'm using this code on the frame containing the button:
function playMovie(event:MouseEvent)
{
this.theButton.theMC.gotoAndPlay(3);
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Does anyone know if it is possinle to scroll a graphic or a movie instance as well as a text instance in flash. I want to scroll text and images as well. Actually text with imges embedded in it.
View 3 RepliesI'm wondering how to edit the lineHeight or lineSpacing in a xml loaded text created, my text is also styled with an external css file. What's the syntax I can maybe add in my css file that would be understood by flash ?
View 1 RepliesI'm using flash 8 and am trying to develop something where the user inputs some text in a "input text" box, then through a button or drop down menu selects a font and the inputed text is displayed in the font they chose. This is what I have so far: A dynamic Text box that displays the text an input text box where the user inputs their text and, for right now, some buttons that correspond to different fonts. My dynamic text box has the variable font2 and the buttons have the following action script:
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I'm trying to copy/modify the spark skin for the default button, but not sure how to find that skin. When I hover over <s:Button and Ctrl + Click it, it takes me to the Button class, but there isn't any skin information there.
View 1 RepliesI'm building a videoplayer using the flvplayback component for flash cs5 the skin i'm using is SkinUnderAllNoCaption.swf.my question is how do I modify the code for the forward button currently the forward button scrubs the video file.I want the forward button to go to another video and for the rewind button to go to the previous video.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to modify the text of a Label component that I already placed on the stage in as3. I'm having trouble getting the text to change though, it just stays the same based on the initial text I typed in. I'd like to eventually have the label contents change dynamically. When I compile the swf, the two labels have the original value I gave them when I put them on the stage, not the startDate and endDate values.
My code looks like:
package {
import flash.display.*;
import fl.controls.Slider;
import fl.events.SliderEvent;
import fl.controls.Label;
public class slider extends MovieClip{
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i'm struggling with the following, i'm building an xml based flash menu. For the buttons I used a MovieClip 'mainMenuItem' that contains the MovieClips 'MenuBackground', 'menuBlueLine' and 'menuText', all of them with the exported for AS and export in frame 1 checked.
in the following code i am trying to get the text of an array into the dynamically build menu.
Code:
var menuHoogte:int=34;
var menuY:int=0;
var menuArray:Array=new Array();
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I am new to flash but I have used motion tween before with Flash CS3. Now I need a text to decrease size and modify alpha so I wrote the text (one word), converted it to symbol (movie clip), create 2 key-frames (larger size, alpha 30% -> small size, alpha 100%) and "create motion tween" between. But it doesn't work i don't know why! This time I use Flash CS4 and I was wondering if there are some presets or something that I don't know. The arrow that suppose to appear between the frames doesn't ..only the frames change color.
View 5 RepliesUsers can write a text, modify it (in type, color and size) and choose a picture (which is loaded through a XML-file) for an e-card, then send it to whomever they want. But when they have made the modifications, how do I save the card, and then store it in a database?
View 3 RepliesAlright so lets say I have a number of movieclips or text fields or something with instance names test1, test2, test3 and so forth. Now say I want to fill these text fields with text that I have in an array and I want to do this with a loop, how do I do this? What I'm really asking is if there is a way to use a variable in an instance name if you catch my drift.
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There's a movieclip, lets call it myMovieClip. Inside this movieclip there is a dynamic text box, lets call this one myText. Now to change the text within this text box that is embedded in a movieclip, it's simply:
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However, what if there is a variable, called myVariable that stores the instance name of the text box. With only one text box I know it's pointless, but for the sake of example, lets leave it simple. So, suddenly the code looks like:
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Does creating a new instance of an Object that uses an identical name to an older instance, delete the previous instance? Or should the original instance be deleted first? The code uses a ridiculous amount of XML vars. Isn't it less memory intensive to parse the XML and save the properties to an Object, and then delete the XML Object, rather than keep the XML Object around and reference it's child nodes directly? Is it better form to break up a huge XML file (>600lines/3200vars) into smaller chunks?
View 1 RepliesHow do you view and edit a button symbol's instance name after you have made the button symbol?
View 3 RepliesI created a dynamic text box and gave it the instance name "body" however i loaded the text from an external source using one of my classes. how do i reference the dynamic text box on the stage from my class???
View 3 Replieson (rollOver) {
butID=1;
butName=this._name;
trace(butName);
}
the third line, is that not it?? When I trace I get nothing. Why do buttons have to act weird...
I want the following to happen: when I press my button, it should get the instance name of the button. I have the following code:
within the instance/flash actions window
on(release) {
PressButton();
}
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I keep getting "undefined" as my answer. Furthermore, if I put trace(this._name) I get nothing (as in I get black on the output window). However, if I put in a string within the trace (such as 'Hello'), it works. So, assume everything works but the whole NamesButton._names part.
I have 4 instances of the same button on a single layer in a timeline of the mc 'coverflow_mc' named 'ThatsMe_btn_a' to 'ThatsMe_btn_d' ie same button, same position.. it just changes instance name on 4 keyframes. Why does it call the function fine for button a but not for b,c, or d? There is a stop on each of these frames and I can see from the swf that it is stopping at the correct frames.
function thatsMe() {
right = new Sound();
right.attachSound("right");
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