All I want to do is create a flashing box to highlight an important piece of text on screen.How can I create a simple rectangle that will flash say between blue/ green for a few seconds stop flashing and box still be visible. Its literally just to highoight some text on screen I need to make sure everyone reads.
View 3 RepliesI am creating a form, and I would like to have a highlight around the input text box when the users is focused on that textfield.
i have a highlight movieclip(just a rectangle outline that is a movieclip).
How would i go about placing the highlight mc around the text box? would i use focus_In eventListeners? and call a function that can outline a box that is the input text background?
Im attempting to make a create your own art work style piece in flash. Ive designed it out so that you first select one of 3 buttons to select which vase you wish to use as a base. However the next set of buttons relate to the colour of that object, so there are 4 options (blue, red, pink and brown) and the user selects one from clicking the appropriate button.
However im strugling to figure out how i would know which of the first options (which vase) the user has selected in the first place. Is there some kind of time line trick or script that i could use to sort this out???
How to i create a timer that executes the following peice of code after 10 seconds:
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_visible = false;
I'd like to create a flashing LOADING symbol that appears before a swf file is loaded, but there seems to be a problem with my code.The error 1180:call to undefined method fader is given for the highlighted, but this was code i followed from a tutorial.Once the LOADING symbol has hovered on screen for a few seconds, id like it to fade out and display the swf on the index page, of which this code is within.
import fl.transitions.Tween;import fl.transitions.easing.*;import fl.transitions.TweenEvent;import flash.events.TimerEvent;import flash.utils.Timer;
var faderTween:Tween;var loadit = new Loader();var timeLimit = 3000;var timeLimitReached = false;
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What code can I use to shrink a piece of text in a dynamic text field to fit within a certain height and width.
View 1 Replieswhy I'm getting this "flashing" screen when ever I try to load a font. I use to load fonts all the time. Now when I try to load fonts, as soon as I click on the download I get this flashing screen and have to shut my computer down to get rid of it.
View 3 RepliesI 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?
View 1 RepliesOver the course of four nights in April and May of 1941, Belfast was attacked by the German Luftwaffe bombers. Their aim was to destroy strategic targets in the city which were aiding the British War Effort.What I want is for users to be able to select the word 'German Luftwaffe' and then they will be brought to another frame with information on that topic.
View 1 RepliesI want to have the caret (flashing cursor) to appear when I set the focus to a text field. It works fine when the user clicks on the text field.
the following does not seem to work for me:
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stage.focus = mytxtfield
mytxtfield.setSelection(mytxtfield.text.length,mytxtfield.text.length);
When I try this it merely focuses on my text field and no caret comes up! mytxtfield is the instance name of my input type textfield.
This one is for all the TextField wizards out there. I have a text field that displays 2 paragraphs of texts. The first one I want to be truncated to show only 3 lines of text maximum. The 2nd paragraph is to be appended to that text.
Is there a way I can show only the first 3 lines of the first paragraph? Think of it like an abstract for an article for the first paragraph.
I tried doing it with String.subStr(0, guestimate of 3 lines of chars) but it's pretty inconsistent in that some strings will take up 4 lines of the textfield.
I thought about doing 2 separate textfields but in the case of the first paragraph having only 1 line worth of chars, there will be gap of 2 lines worth of chars between the 2nd paragraph.
i have an image gallery, slightly modified from kirupa's xml image gallery, and for some reason the desc_txt text field isnt filling with the <piece> node from the xml file. everything else works. the text field is set to dynamic text and the instance name is correct (desc_txt). here is the actionscript,
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I am trying to create a flash animation in which a text title fades in to the screen. I created the text, converted it to a symbol, then tried to create a motion tween in which I could tweak the alpha values of the text object. However when I try to create the keyframe, the popup that comes up has the Color option greyed out (which is where I believe the alpha setting lives).
View 1 RepliesI'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.
View 0 RepliesOn my website, I display uploaded PDF files in a flash player for my users to read. I already use various tools to extract the text and produce a serious of high quality images from the file and the system works well. The last piece of the puzzle is to be able to highlight specific parts of the document to help users with accessibility issues.
However I cannot figure out how to calculate where the specific text is positioned on the page? Notes: The documents uploaded to the system are from 3rd parties, so fonts may be embedded. Meaning that I cannot be sure of the width of specific letters. The text to be highlighted may not be unique, the same text may be repeated How can I calculate the coordinates, height and width of a specific piece of text on a PDF, so that I can then draw a box around it?
In flex, how can I highlight text/label? I have text and a small image that I want to highlight.
View 1 RepliesSee the .fla and try to replace an image in library with another one. It works fine with export to .swf, but try to save, close and reopen the .fla - all images in the library are same!
Here is the zip contains .fla + "good" .swf, "re-exported" swf and folder with all images. [URL]..
I am a pretty good programmer in as3 - but I don't know OOP. -- and I am not so good that I don't have a ton learn -- when I look at all the differnt script commands I know my knowledge is tiny. I am now at the point where I could look at a website and make a pretty good attempt at coppying it and most my programming is dynamic driven. So I was wondering by making the leap to OOP would I have relearn a lot of what I know -- and what are the advantages
View 3 RepliesI have flex 4 and writing my own autocomplete component (based on the popupanchor) to search for different books. In the dropdown box, how can I highlight the text that matches? For instance, a user types in "ema" and the search returns "Pet Sematary"....I want to highlight the letters "ema" within "Pet Sematary"
View 1 RepliesI want to set the background color or highlight color of selected text in text area in Flex as we can set highlight color of text in MS Word. And after setting this highlight color user can also edit this text without disappearing this highlight color.
View 1 Replieswhy to make text in a text field highlighted(beckground color)?
I know there isn't any property like that for textfield or text foramt but there is an action named highlight in flash and I dont know what it's for.
I need to important transparent pngs into my SWF, and have them clickable as buttons. Right now, I'm using JPGs with the loader component, but I'm aware this method does not work with PNGs.
View 5 RepliesI want to create a touch screen game for TV screen (not for mobile).
View 2 RepliesIf i open .as file (or something else) in Notepad++ and select any variable or some other text, it will highlight all of the occurences of this variable in text of this opened document. And you can quickly see where this variable have assignemnts and so on. But in Flash CS3 i can only use standard Find dialog to search throug opened .as file and it finds only one occurence, then you hit "Find Next" and you've got another. Not so comfortable. So does that feature exist in Flash CS IDE, or something similar? (i can't find that)
View 1 RepliesI m stucked on this problem. I am not able to highlight text at second click. it's not reassign when i m trying to clear it next time. to check exiting problem please enter "hot" in text box and click on button , you ll see highlighted text. but next time whent you try to click on that it ll not show any result.
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Whenever I test a movie or view in html browser, the text is unlightable/selectable. How can I make it so that I can highlight the text and copy/past. You know the options when you right click after highlighting text.
View 3 RepliesI have used a tool to convert a pdf to a swf but i need to be able to select and hightlight the pdf's contents. How would I do this using flex/action script?
View 1 RepliesI 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.
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for (var counter:Number=0; counter < testVtt.markUps.length; counter++)
{
var m:MarkUp=testVtt.markUps[counter];
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I wonder how you can get text in input textfields that dissappear when you click in them to write something. Something similar to what's on [URL] I understand how you get the text there with variables but not how you make it dissappear when you highlight them.
View 2 RepliesSo I thought of building a Flash CMS. The one thing i would like to know is how would one turn text that has been typed in then highlighted in a textbox and then click on a button and turn the highlighted text into a link. I know it would involve some backend scripting.
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