Actionscript 3 :: Making A "Textfield" With ButtonMode And UseHandCursor
Jan 27, 2012
I'm doing a software that is configurable with loaded data from XML. User can define the max "width" of an TextField and the TextFields are multiline and wrapping happens when the text wouldn't fit the width. Text for the TextFields is also loaded from the XML file and the length is arbitrary. Because TextField doesn't have neither buttonMode or useHandCursor properties I made TextFields children of sprites. So for every TextField there is a sprite as a parent.
Then the real problem: ("TextFields" are actually the sprites with a TextField as a child) The "TextFields" should not be clickable outside of the text in them. At the moment it seems like that the sprites extend to the full width of the TextFields and therefore user can actually click the "TextFields" from an area where there is no text. I "tried" to change the size of the sprite, checked the AS3 reference and now I know why everything disappeared after that. So I need a solution in which, the "TextFields" have buttomMode and useHandCursor enabled and the container should be able to cut off the area where there is no text.
If I set the properties of "buttonMode" and "useHandCursor" to true in DataGrid, it does not work as I expect. Only if I move the cursor to the edge between two rows, the hand cursor displayes.
What I expect is that no matter where the cursor is moved, it should always show hand cursor.
I have a Sprite and it has a TextField as a child. If that Sprite gets transformed, the TextField does not (at least not how I want it). One way to make it transformable is to turn it into a Bitmap. But when this Bitmap gets transformed, there is no anti-aliasing (or maybe little, it turns out ugly at least). Now I have two questions: is it possible to make it have some anti-aliasing? is there another way to make a TextField transformable?
What I basically want to do is create a Textfield that takes user input, even if they have clicked somewhere else on the screen.As I understand it, clicking on another object will cause the Textfield to lose focus and no longer take input. Is there a way around this?
I'm working on a simple chat application in Flash / AS3. There's a Chat input box, a Send button, and a TextField where the contents of the chat input box appear after the message has been sent.By default, when you add text to a TextField, the text appears at the top, and works it's way down to the bottom. I would like to do (something close to) the opposite: Have new messages appear at the bottom of the TextField, and old messages move up to the top as new messages are added.
I can see the cursor in flashPlayer, but once I put this in an html doc, I don't see the hand cursor any more.
Do I need to be adding something to the html as well, or is more code needed? For some reason, I thought this used to work... maybe that's just the old school AS2 buttons?
I`m having some trouble using the property useHandCursor (uhc)Please take a lot the attached file! cyclops:I have a timeline with 15 frames.In the 1st frame of the AS layer I have the "uhc" usage
In another layer I have the buttons, but they do not appear in every frame.I noticed that I need to use the "uhc" in the same frame number of the buttons.This way I can`t specify a function to all the buttons in just one frame!
I'm having a problem with a button that should change the mouse pointer to an arrow when clicking it and, after while, turn it back to a hand cursor. I use the Button.useHandCursor method to acheive this. This works fine in the Flash IDE, but when testing in a browser, the mouse pointer won't change back to the hand unless i move the mouse. I've tried a LOT of stuff, including updateAfterEvent without any success.
I'm having a problem with a button that should change the mouse pointer to an arrow when clicking it and, after while, turn it back to a hand cursor. I use the Button.useHandCursor method to acheive this. This works fine in the Flash IDE, but when testing in a browser, the mouse pointer won't change back to the hand unless i move the mouse. I've tried a LOT of stuff, including updateAfterEvent without any success.
Firefox 3.6 doesn't show usehandcursor on button symbols. I knew that this is a Chrome bug but didn't know it is contagious to other browsers on Mac also...
I'm having a problem with a button that should change the mouse pointer to an arrow when clicking it and, after while, turn it back to a hand cursor. I use the Button.useHandCursor method to acheive this. This works fine in the Flash IDE, but when testing in a browser, the mouse pointer won't change back to the hand unless i move the mouse. I've tried a LOT of stuff, including updateAfterEvent without any success.
I have a button that I disable after a user clicks it, then the button is enabled when the animation is completed.
I set useHandCursor = false after the user clicks the button. Then I set useHandCursor = true after the movie completes.
But the hand cursor doesn't display until the user moves the mouse. I want the hand cursor to show if the user has left the cursor on the button without them needing to move the mouse. Is there away to force the hand cursor to show if it is hovering above a button when useHandCursor is set to true?
I am unable to get useHandCursor = false; to work on a button script. I need to have it on the button script, not in a timeline function (as the swf I am working on has many buttons and none have names on their instance, nor on the movies containing them). Is it possible to do this? I have also tried, this.useHandCursor = false; but also not working. By the way, this page isn't working in IE7. It is showing blank under the "Post New Thread" bar.
I have a number of buttons I am using to trigger certain actions, however I do not want the handcursor to show up when the mouse is over these buttons. I am using: PHP Code:
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each of the buttons has been named correctly and they are all set as menu items,
i am using: mybutton.useHandCursor = false; The button I am using the script on however is not in the main timeline of the movie. I have tried using the script in the first frame of the timeline of the MC that the button exists in. I have also tried using
I made a panorama (panorama_mc) with nested movieclips that I'm making behave as buttons. All works well in the panorama file, but not when I load it into a container in a different .fla file. I'm getting Error 1010 on the lines about the buttonMode and also just the EventListeners for the buttons.
Here's the code for the swf I'm loading into the other file:
close_btn.visible=false; //defines measurements, in pixels const PANWIDTH:Number=10061 const STAGEWIDTH:Number=650
I could make mouse_click events etc on a loader object..(loading an image)but how do I makeit do the pointer finger thing..I know its .buttonModebut.. I triedtheLoader.buttonMode = true;and that throws an error "Cannot create property buttonMode on flash.display.Loader"
I'm loading an icon from an XML file, then attaching that loaded icon into a dynamic sprite, adding it to the stage and trying to use the buttonMode method on it. For some reason I can't get the buttonMode to work. Here is my code:
ActionScript Code: var forumHolder:Sprite = new Sprite(); //creates new sprite addChild(forumHolder); //adds it to the stage var XMLForumIconLoader = introLoader.image.(@name == "iconTwo"); //loads image from the xml files[code]........
I have a dynamically created MovieClip that contains both graphics-drawn elements and TextFields. When I set this MC's buttonMode to true the mouse will only change over the graphics-part of the MC although I have set the selectable-attribute of the TextField to false. I also tried adding a invisible Rectangle on top, but it didn't work either
The following code dynamically creates a movieclip "button". I also create a mask and a UILoader inside the original button to house an image. Works great. Unfortunately, the UILoader hinders the operation the the "button" mouseEventListener. How can I avoid thisHere's the code
var button:MovieClip = new MovieClip(); button.graphics.beginFill(rssXMLSettings.backgroundcolor); button.graphics.drawRoundRect(0, 0,100,100,25,25); button.graphics.endFill(); button.filters = [glow];button.y = 460;button.x
I am trying to apply buttonMode to a movie clip like this: pathToThumb.getChildAt(i).buttonMode = false;
and am getting the following error. 1119: Access of possibly undefined property buttonMode through a reference with static type flash.display:DisplayObject.
I am trying to apply buttonMode to a movie clip like this:pathToThumb.getChildAt(i).buttonMode = false;
and am getting the following error.1119: Access of possibly undefined property buttonMode through a reference with static type flash.display:DisplayObject.
I just started fiddling with loading external swfs. I wanted to load a swf then add a mouse event to it. All worked fine, I can talk to the swf and rotate it and add the mouse event and it works. But when I tried to set the buttonMode to true I got an error
var loadedSwf1:Loader = new Loader(); var loadedSwf1URL:URLRequest = new URLRequest("mySwf1.swf");loadedSwf1.load(url); addChild(loadedSwf1);
