Is it possible to change the width of an insert TAB character in a Flex TextArea?I'm capturing FocusEvent.KEY_FOCUS_CHANGE events and manually inserting a " " into a text area styled with an embedded monospace font. By default, the TABs are being displayed two and a half monospace characters wide... I need them to display five monospace characters wide
View 2 RepliesI am treating a spark TextArea as text input(by setting heightInLines="1"). The TextArea is part of an mxml component and I want to resize the component when the text is changed.
I haven't been able to use textArea.measureaText(textArea.text) to get line metrics and use it. I get this error "Parameter antiAliasType must be non-null."
Is there any way to get the width of a TextArea which it is going to consume at runtime for a particular string or a particular TextFlow?
I am using a TextArea in my application, and wish to change the font color of textArea at runtime based on certain conditions? I am using the following code in a functionresultText.setStyle("color", 0x842D22).However, this does not work, and gives me an exception at runtimeCannot Access property of null object reference.
View 1 RepliesI am using actionsript 3 and flex 3.5. Is there any way to change the font color of a part of text in TextArea control without using "htmlText" property?
For example I have a string "dog, cat, fish". I want to change the color of "cat" word to red.
It just take a long time to change the Password character currently if i am enabling the displayAsPassword property of TextInput it gives '*' as a password character and I want to change that to '#' so is there any possible way?
View 1 RepliesI was just curious about the password mode display of the TextInput control in flex. The control displays asterisks instead of the characters themselves when the 'displayAsPassword' is set to true. Quoting the documentation,displayAsPassword If true, the field does not display entered text, instead, each text character entered into the control appears as the character "*".So, is there any way to change this displayed character, unless of course creating a custom component or extending the existing TextInput control?
View 1 RepliesI have a panel in my application, and the user can change its width. My problem is when the title is very long. I would like to crop the title by changing the width.I have tried changind the width of the titleTextField by:this.titleTextField.width = ...
View 1 RepliesCan we change the width of the datagrid column dynamically by clicking on the border of the column in order to display the complete string which is too long to be displayed and needs to be scrolled ? If so, How ?
Also, how can we ensure that the column width changes dynamically based on the number of characters / length of string; since many a times the data is too long to be displayed. Can we set the column width to take the length of data into consideration before displaying onto the datagrid ?
I'm using a mx.containers.Grid to layout some data, and the last column is a set of checkboxes. MXML Code snippet:[code]Basically, I want the labels & text values to align however the Grid component sees fit. However, I'd like the checkboxes to be right-aligned. I've tried setting the width of the textValues to 100% and it does nothing. I don't want to use hard-coded pixel values/canvases/etc because it is important that this is easy to change/update.
View 2 RepliesIs it possible to dynamically (not in the project's options) change the dimensions of the stage by using ActionScript 3? I'd want to create a 400x300px loader, but I also want it to load animations that have bigger or smaller dimensions. I would then change the width and height of the loader to make the loaded animations fit well. Is there any way to do that?
View 1 RepliesI have objects placed on the screen using x/y coordinates. I want a way to update that based on changes in Screen Width/Height. So if used re-sized browser window x/y should change. How do I cick off a function every time the screen is re-sized.
View 3 RepliesI'm trying to change the background color of a TextArea Component.Does anyone know how to do this?
function processXML(e:Event):void { var strTextBox:String; myText.visible=true; myText.setStyle("contentBackgroundColor", 0x000000); //Does not work..nor does myText.setStyle("backgroundColor",0x000000); myXML = new XML(e.target.data); strTextBox = "<a href='" + myXML.Branch[0].linkURL + "'> More Info...</a>"; myText.htmlText=strTextBox;}
Is it possible that such simple thing isn't possible to change. I searched for this but couldn't find anything useful.
View 2 RepliesI am looking at the SimpleButton entirely wrong. Here's what I'm doing (inside of a MovieClip):
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the close_btn.width and height remain 0. Am I supposed to just rely on the DisplayObject members of the SimpleButton completely and ignore width/height/x/y or what?
Am working in flex 4 the sample mxml is
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
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on the perpendicular clicks it shows as like the second click. does the scaleX scaleY affects the width height?
The problem, as you can see, is that the text (height and width) is nothing like the Height and Width of the compoent (Spark TextArea) that I have set via the Main.mxml file in Flex 4. This is pissing me off so much because nobody can tell me why this is happening, or how to fix it. Text is dynamically added to the TextArea as people send messages in the server, hence the valueCommit line.I don't understand this, because I know it's not the fault of my fx:Script. I know this, because when I switch over to the Design tab of Adobe Flex Builder 4; the lines are just as messed up as in the screen shot.[code]
View 2 RepliesI am using a singleton class (popup, which means it doesn't forget the last used variables) which contains a datagrid. I am making various columns visible/invisible, setting the widths and headers in accordance to data received from a database call. Everything works fine except that when I put the breakpoints before and after the point where I change width of columns, I do not see the change in width of datagrid at all! Instead I see some values totally out of sync as widths of datagrid column! However, since it is a singleton class, the next time I call this popup, I see widths which I did set up in last call.
I must be messing up in calling the setWidth() function (which is my custom function which changes the width of datagrid in action script). What should be the point where I should call this function? I tried in creationComplete, show and in the setter of dataprovider.
is there a way to dynamically change the width of swf, accordingly to width of browser?
everybody hates horizontal scroll, but i don't want my flash movie to be tiny
in the flash i use at Zero Width Non Joiner caracter but this caracter UNKNOWN for flash.var str:String='‌';//only one Zero Width Non Joiner trace (str.length);////0no problem in this code
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I have a ScrollPane with two textfields and UIScrollbars. I set the dimensions so that everything fits in the ScrollPane width-wise perfectly (i.e. without the horizontal scroll bar appearing). However, the horizontal scroll bar does appear. When I scroll to the right, there is nothing additional there. If I remove the UIScrollbars, the bar disappears, so theres the root.
If I trace the objects under the mouse in that empty space I get:
>> instance357 : [object Shape]
>> instance359 : [object Shape]
>> instance358 : [object MovieClip]
>> instance355 : [object ScrollPane_upSkin]
>> instance184 : [object ScrollPane]
The two scrollpane objects I understand. The MovieClip I am pretty sure is a part of the upSkin since it shows up everywhere the upSkin shows up. The two shapes are what I think is at issue here.
My assumption is that there is a non-visible component of the UIScrollbar that is inside the container Sprite. Based on what I know of the UIScrollBar's components, I am thinking it is the focus Rectangle, but I have no idea if that's accurate or how to test it. All I know is whatever is causing the problem appears to be exactly 100 pixels wide. Is there a way to set a maximum width of a Sprite or remove the horizontal scroll bar of a scrollpane? If not, is there any other creative means to get rid of my horizontal scroll bar?
Is there a nice and not much processor consuming way to move all TitleWindow instances within the application visible area when the application been scaled - change it's width or height ?
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to edit an HTML that uses swfobject to load a flash file.
What I'm trying to do is to reduce the size of the SWF file.
I've tried editing the height and width parameter within the swfobject(), but that didn't work.
I tried reducing the width height in the HTML css, but that also didn't work..
How can I pass a 'width' or a 'height' parameter to the swfobject so it will actually load the swf in a smaller or 'zoomed out' way?
i wanna change swf's width with as3 but i cant
View 1 RepliesFor my menu on my page, I want to do things dynamically. For the drop down menu, I want to have a box around the link when moused over, that changes depending on the number of characters that are going to be placed on it.
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See how the "tab" around team is smaller than the menu? But GRAPHICS will be larger, and so on.
I'm parsing an XML file to pull in the data for the menu, so I want to handle this portion dynamically as well.
I have a Flash file, which has to be liquid. I have a header, a footer and a center section, which all are percentage scalable. My center section has a MovieClip called info_txt, and I'm trying to make it high 20% of the center_mc's height. I do this, but I also load a text in that field (info_txt) with XML, and when the text (xml) is loaded and placed in the textfield it doesn't go multiline, but stays nowrap.
View 1 RepliesI have a TextArea on my stage. It is a white rectangle with a border.
Can I change its appearance? Ideally, I would like a transparent background with no border.
I've got a movieclip with two layers - a background movieclip, and above that, a mask movieclip (as you might guess, this layer is masking the first). Due to design necessity, the mask is animated on the timeline across 60 frames.The problem arises when I use an Event.RESIZE listener to change the width of the parent movieclip when the browser window is resized. Any code to reference the mask, i.e
parentMC.contentMask.width = stage.stageWidth;
parentMC.contentMask.x = frame.width/2 - frame.contentMask.width/2;
Simply results in the mask animation not playing at all.
I have a MC in an AS3 animation and I want to increase its height from bottom to top which would mean that the registration point should be bottom of the MC and center of width (horizontal center).
View 2 RepliesI am a newbie in Flash CS3. How to resize the width of of a movie clip according to the size the size of dynamic text inside it. I did it by creating a text field 'myText' and then converted it to a MovieClip symbol and named the MovieClip as myClip. The text in myText is assigned at run-time and its width changes according to the text.
I did it as follows:-
myClip.myText.selectable = false;
myClip.mouseChildren = false;
myClip.useHandCursor = true;
myClip.buttonMode = true;
myClip.myText.width = myClip.myText.textWidth + 5;
On doing this I find the clickable area changes according to the size of the text field but the text field doesn't appear at all.
here is my code;
var requestObj: URLRequest = new URLRequest("jukebox.swf");var loaderObj: Loader = new Loader();addChild(loaderObj);loaderObj.load(requestObj);
thumbnails_tl.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, thumbnailClicked);
function thumbnailClicked(event:Event):void { mineral_ta.text = event.target.selectedItem.data;}
thumbnails_tl.addItem({label:"Akeboshi", source:"thumbnails/Akeboshi.jpg",data:"Yellow Moon
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This is not all of it but i want to change it from black to like lets say green.Is there a way to change it to a different color without using a xml or any other program?