Flash :: [F8] Do Not Want Highlight On Mouseover

HELP-->Highlight Text Links Read In From A Txt File On Mouseover
Ok I have a Dynamic Text Field that reads in a list of website links in html format code from a .TXT file, I would like the links to change colour on mouseover, what would be the easiest way to accomplish this?

Mouseover In _root Affects Mouseover In Loaded Movie
ok this is perplexing....

i have a mouse over effect to show a popup info text box in the main movie (_root)
and i also have a rollover tsunami effect in a loaded movie.
but at soon as i do a rollover on a button in the main movie
the rollover tsunami effect in the loaded movie does not work....
anyone know what the problem is???

please help

MouseOver Submenu Not Your Average Mouseover Question. Complicated.
Ok heres the link http://www.jcn.net/bryan/test/test.html The problem is I have the button, when you mouse over it I want the submenu to appear, i'm gonna add some cool animation to it once I get the mechanics down. Ok, I have the button, then the submenu. Below the main button I have a mask, and the submenu. I have the mask in the first frame to set its _height and _width to 0. Then onMouseover the main button, the mask changes its _height and _width to show the submenu behind it. OK, well i've also added a invisible button that onmouseover changes the _height and _width back to "0". OK the button works, it displays the submenu on rollover and when I move off the submenu and mouseover the hitbutton the menu disapears. But I want it, to once the mouse moves back over from the submenu to the main button for the submenu to disappear again, and the same thing if another button is highlighted instead. If anyone has any ideas or another approach to doing this please let me know. Heres my code.

first frame:

mask._height = "0";
mask._width = "0";

main button:

on (rollOver) {
mask._height = "152.0";
mask._width = "132.4";
}

hitbutton:

on (rollOver) {
mask._height = "0";
mask._width = "0";
}

Map... Information On Mouseover. (Reveal A Box On Mouseover)
I'm making a real-estate website for a friend. He has these aerial pictures of several properties in the same neighborhood. I was thinking of making a flash thing where I would have the aerial image and make it so you could mouseover a property and have an information box pop up in the corner of the flash document. Just like a white box with text.

Would anyone happen to know a way to do what I want? Just want to define a few mouseover spaces that will trigger a info box to pop up, and disappear on mouseout.

Thanks - Kevin

Highlight
How would I get my text button to stay highlighted when on the right page
Thanks for your time

Highlight Bar
I'm trying to create a Flash-based emulation of an electronic device UI that I'm helping to develop. Here's what I have so far to give you a better idea of what I'm going for (very early in the process):

http://www.phreshdesign.com/mg/flashDevice.html

If you look at that link, you'll notice a "Highlight Bar" - the blue horizontal bar that will move up and down upon pressing the Up and Down arrow keys. I'm planning to have a lot of screens with text like this one and every time the highlight bar goes "over" the text (although in the document it's actually under the text layer), the text needs to change to white. Can someone give me an idea of how to do this?

Also, since there will be many instances of text that needs to change when the highlight bar is over it (on many other screens after this, similar to an Ipod), I'd prefer to have a "programmatic" solution to this - meaning I don't want to have to manually make each line of text a symbol and refer to each one of them, I'd rather have a function written along the lines of "If highlightBar is under Text, then Text.color = white" (not exactly actionscript, but you get the idea). Is that possible?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Highlight Box
Hello,

I'm trying to make a box in Flash that will highlight a portion of the screen and then disappear. I would like it to work the same way that highlight boxes work in Captivate. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks.

Highlight Box
Hello.

I have a flash movie where I want to have the ability to highlight text. I have a movie clip of a 50% yellow transparent box using the following code:

Code:
box.onMouseDown = function() {
this._x = _root._xmouse;
this._y = _root._ymouse;
this._xscale = this._yscale=0;
this._visible = true;
this.onMouseMove = function() {
this._xscale = _root._xmouse-this._x;
this._yscale = _root._ymouse-this._y;
updateAfterEvent();
};
};
box.onMouseUp = function() {
delete this.onMouseMove;
this._visible = true;
}
}
This works great, but I need to be able to draw more than one highlight box, and I need these boxes to attach themselves to a specifc mc so that they move along with it. Hope this makes sense. Any help would be much appreciated.

Highlight Box
Hello. I'm trying to build a flash file that allows the user to highlight certain pages (documents), I then need that highlight box that was made to attach itself to that page (movieclip). I currently have a yellow box movieclip on the stage with the following code:

[as]
box._visible = false;
box.onMouseDown = function() {
this._x = _root._xmouse;
this._y = _root._ymouse;
this._xscale = this._yscale=0;
this._visible = true;
this.onMouseMove = function() {
this._xscale = _root._xmouse-this._x;
this._yscale = _root._ymouse-this._y;
updateAfterEvent();
};
};
box.onMouseUp = function() {
delete this.onMouseMove;
this._visible = false;
};
[as]

This works great, but I need to be able to create multiple highlight boxes, and these boxes need to attach themselves to a movieclip. Any ideas?

Color Highlight
onClipEvent (load) {
_parent.colSetUp(this, "0xFFFF00");
}

This is for a color that a pen is writing. How would I write this so the color has a transparency to it? Like a highlighter.
I tried writing it as:
_parent.colSetUp(this, "0xFFFF00", _alpha=50);
But that didn't go over too well.
Thanks for the help.
Jo

Moveable HighLight
Hi,
I am simulating an interactive tv inferface and need to move a selection box round the screen, using flash buttons (up, down, left and right) - The same way the Tab selection works ( can move it round the screen using the cursor keys) but I want to do it with actionscript. I've been trying to figure out the best way to do it, but am getting nowhere fast.

Has anyone got any sugestion on how to do this.

Thanks
Kaan.

Object Highlight
i am trying to accomplish a highlight like koves.net and 2A (previous site) have done to their navigation. But everytime I do it my gradient makes it look so cheesy. I hate it. Does anyone know how to make it look more professional?

another question: say you are using a mask, it is a square. you put a gradient to it and the outsides of the box are alphaed to 0%. is there any way to make the mask alpha?

cheers,

Simple Highlight Eh?
hi

is it possible in an MX dynamic text box to indicate text highlight - basically i am attempting to have text appear in typewriter style but i want the background behind the text to change colour like a highlight... i've tried

backgroundColor = true;
backgroundColor= 999999;

or something to this effect but it changes the colour of the whole text are Not just the actual lines of text - is this possible anyone

cheers

monkonfire

Button Highlight
Hello

I have a series of four buttons. Once pressed a text box fades in. What I am trying to do is once the button is released I want it to change the font colour of the text within the button, this is to show what button is selected. When I click on the other buttons I want the existing colour to fade back to normal.

Can you guys please help me.

Highlight Text.
Hi everybody,
i have a problem, i want the user to imput a text in a text box and then i will change the collor of the first five letters.
Can somebody help me do this?

Scrollpane Highlight?
Hi, I've got a prob, and i don't know why it actually is doing it. I used a scroll pane and uploaded a movieclip in it to beable to scroll it. It works fine. The working swf is at, They might take long to load cause i haven't yet given them a prelaoder.

http://www.y-lime.com/index.swf

when you click on the first image button, it loads.
As you can see it scrolls and everything is fine. I maked it so that the square doesn't show and the scroll bar, having onl the text and the small buttons which so to fit with my layout. I also masked it thinking it would solve the problem for the green highlight that shows up when u click on the area to scroll. When it loads it looks ok, but when u give it a first click a sort of green highligh showup around the actual aread of the box. Is there a way to remove that?
Thanks in advance!

Highlight Menu
Hi

I've got a tree menu and i want that the different points highlight after been clicked.

I've got this running by using the buttons as html coded text and that every button has 2 actions.
one says to set the font color to white and to underline it self
2nd says to set all other buttons to regular

for example: (i use set variabel)
aa = "Hallo";
ab = "Tag";
ac = "<font color ="#FFFFFF"><u>Bonjour</u></font>;(made with html code)
ad = "Moin";

this works fine but my problem now is that if i add another button i have to change the script of every button, up to day this means changing 30 scripts.

I wonder if there is no other way to to it. I've tried with
on (release){
ca = 3;
}
on (releaseOutside){
ca = 4;
}

This works but u have to click on the button and then drag outside and release an no one uses this.

So do u have a clue???

thanx

Gilo

[help] Highlight Text
hey guys,

I've searched the board and cannot find anything. What I'm wanting to know is: "is there any way to make the textField highlight when the frame that the imput textBox is in is shown? and also when the user clicks on the text box?"

small quick example
www.leightfgc.com/flash_files/click.swf

thanks guys!

Highlight Text
Hi,

Is there a away to display text, into a textfield, with a “dynamic” background (Highlight). I mean as if the text was selected.

Context:
With some AS I create a textfield and load text, from files, into it.
Due to the background of my mc, I want to put a background just for the text. But the background has to have the specific length of each line, as if you select a block of text in a text editor or on a web page.

I have tried with textformat, html tag, css but nothing.

Is there a way to do this ? I’m sure there is…..

For sure I can try to find the font I’m using in a “inverse” mode, but I would prefer to avoid that.

Thanks,

Button Highlight
I have some buttons on screen. I want to give a highlight or "active" look to the button when it's picked. And the other buttons are in the normal state.

When a different button is clicked that button gets the highlight/active look and the others have the normal state.

Currently I am using a movieclip of the highlight/active state and use setProperty visible to true of the movieclip and position it over the button. And when a different button is clicked setProperty visible to false and setProperty visible to true for the other button's highlight/active movieclip.

Is there an easier way to do this? Like create a new state within the button itself?

I attached a simplified version of what I am doing. The actual application has 5 buttons.

Overall Highlight Color
I never use components, but I decided to on this one... I'm using the scrollpane and I want to change the overall color scheme instead of green.
I know that I can setStyle and change borderColor, buttonColor, etc etc....
But is there one global color variable that I can change???
So much for components being easy to work with... I liked the 1.0 ones better!
By the way if anyone knows of a list of all the properties etc.. please shoot me a link, documentation is HORRIBLE!

Highlight Around Input Box
I have a page where I have visitors input text. How do I get that glow to appear around the input text box when the box is active? Thank you.

Highlight And Copy
I have a flash movie where after a few options are made, text is produced at the end. I know how to highlight the text in the text field,
I was just wondering if there is any way to copy the highlighted text and copy it to the clipboard. I am using Flash MX to create this flash movie.

Thanks in advance

How To Highlight Headings?
Ok, this is my question,

I have a list of 10 headings in standard black text which roots out to information for each. How can I highlight a heading or change the colour from black to red once the heading has been clicked and read. This way the reader knows which heading he/she has read and doesn't read it twice when he/she goes back to the main list. I just want to eliminate confusion and make it easier and organized.

Thank you all for you help. I really appreciate this!!

[F5] How To Get The Highlight Off My Swf In Webpage
I put my swf movie onto a web page and it does this weird thing. It puts an outlined border around the movie and when the mouse touches the border of the flash movie an alt tag automatically says "Click to activate and use this control" and highlights the movie. It's very annoying and I want to figure out how to remove that.

Text Highlight
is there a way to change the inputtext highlight color?

guys i need help on this

Highlight Text
Is there a way to highlight text in a dynamic text field?

For example I have text: "The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog."

Say I want to highlight "jumped". Can that be done? If so, how? Thanks.

Text Highlight
Hi guys

How can I change the highlight color of a text? its black when I highlight a text but I'm using a black background which doesn't show the highlight

thanx in advance

Highlight Errors
I am making a sudoku game. When the user finishes the game they can check if they were right by pressing a button, which compares two arrays. The user entered array and the solution array are compared using method below:

function compareArrays(a1,a2) {
var wrong = 0;
for(var i=0;i<a1.length;i++) {
for(var j=0;j<a2[i].length;j++) {
if(a1[i][j]!=a2[i][j]) wrong++;
}
}
this["input" + i].border = "TRUE";
this["input" + i].borderColor = "0xFF0000";
trace(wrong ? "OH NO! "+ wrong +" wrong!" : "Correct!");
}
compareArrays(twoD_Array,myArray);

In addition to indicating how many errors they made I wanted to highlight the text boxes where the errors had occured.
this["input"+x].border = "TRUE";
this["input"+x].borderColor = "0xFF0000";

My text input boxes are labelled input1 - input54 anyone have a path they can point me down?

Thanks to anyone who reads this.

Text Highlight
CAn anyone help guide me where to begin in creating a rolling text highlight?

example:
I would like to learn how to do a title highlight that rolls across text. example: http://www.2kgames.com/civ4/news.htm

Tabbing Highlight
Is there a way in AS 2.0 or maybe AS 3.0 to suppress the "highlight" that occurs when tabbing throught a page ?

Thanks.

Rob Childress

How To Highlight An Object
I have a simple shape, e.g. rect, circle, polygon, in a movie clip that I want to highlight, via AS3, when it is clicked. I thought I could just turn off the stroke using alpha of 0 and then turn it back up to act as the highlight but have been unable to find any way to do this. I was able to change the alpha for the entire mc but can't find a way to access the strokes of the shape. If it is just a rectangle or circle I can use the info from the shape to draw the highlight but when it gets more complicated I don't know how to find the borders of the shape. Appreciate any ideas, thanks.

Highlight Color
how can u change the highlight color on flash? for me its black. but for windows its blue..when u highlight text

Button Highlight
Does anyone know how to keep a button highlighted? I have 3 buttons, each loads and external swf, after I click on one of the buttons I want it to remain highlighted until another button is pressed?

PLEASE Help

How To Highlight Selected Btn?
Ok, I will try to explain my problem (I'm swedish...); If you look at the fla posted here and the trace information in the output panel when published, you see what the button is called. What I need is a way to use this info to create a code that makes the button blacked when clicked on and back to grey when some other btn is clicked. I've tried everything it seems... please, someone who knows this? Thank you.

Highlight Box When Rollover
I am working on a flash menu and I have 3 boxes that when you rollover, the box moves up and loads a movie. I am trying to add another rollover that highlight the moving box when you rollover and then return to the original when you roll out. I have managed to color the box when you rollover but I would like to to outline it.

Here is the code that I have

on (rollOver) {
var colorful = new Color("_root.shapes");
colorful.setRGB(0x003366);
}
on (rollOver) {
loadMovie ("MOVAUTO.swf", "containerclip");
gotoAndPlay(1);
stop();
}

Highlight Color
how can u change the highlight color on flash? for me its black. but for windows its blue..when u highlight text

Trying To Highlight A Button
Hi

Could someone take a look at this please http://www.omegadm.co.uk/new/images/...ship-chart.swf

The buttons under select relationship are all seperate movie clips on the main stage. What I want to happen is once a user clicks on say "Organic" that button changes and stays on a different colour so the user knows what section they are in. BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW TO ACHIEVE THIS!

Does anyone know how I would do this?

Thank you.

Link Highlight, How To Do This?
Hi

I've been away from flash for a while and am feeling a little rusty. What I want to create is an effect like the one at http://www.erain.com for a site idea I'm playing with.

The bit I want is the sub links section (under the main links, you will have to click one of the main links to see what I'm on about) where the links are highlighted with a bar that comes from the right side of the links and covers the one that the mouse is over, then slides back to the right when you roll off the link.

All I want is to know how to make that bar scroll to position like that. I've looked around a bit but found nothing (that I can see) that will do this but I'm not really sure what i should be searching for.

Any help would be great

Thanks
Funky

funkymonk@blueyonder.co.uk
********************

Highlight Problem
Plz help me, I have been wondering whether this is possible...

Imagine I am doing a simple flash menu.

-----------------
  Home
-----------------
  Page 1
-----------------
  Page 2
-----------------

Now when I am in homepage I would like Home Page to be highlighted. When I click on to go to the next page (ex: Page 1) that one must be highlighted. Is it possible to do this using only one .swf file? If so howz it done...

Thanx in advance...

Highlight Text
I need help, I've wasted way too many hours on this issue, and I am no longer able to see the forest from the trees.

I've made a Text Editor (just a simple one) for a grd 3-5 math quiz system. It can do everything but highlight text.

I can't figure out how to highlight small block of text in larger blocks.

IE: this is a test sentance

in the above I would like test to have a different background colour than the rest of the sentance.

help

How Highlight Selected Btn?
Ok, I will try to explain my problem (I'm swedish...); If you look at the fla posted here and the trace information in the output panel when published, you see what the button is called. What I need is a way to use this info to create a code that makes the button blacked when clicked on and back to grey when some other btn is clicked. I've tried everything it seems... please, someone who knows this? Thank you.

Highlight A-tag In HTML Field ?
anyone know/think of a way to make a-tags in a html-field highlight/ hover ??

Nyls

Getting Highlight Or Selected Text
I need to know how to have a sentence or line of code for a user to look at and highlight a specific piece of it and know what piece they have highlighted. Is that possible?

Flash Highlight Mask Help
Hello

I'm looking for a tutorial in Flash on how to do a similar effect such as the one shown in this site: http://blalox.com/previews/section5/index.htm .. See the logo? See how it highlights? Also on the navigation rollover it highlights. I'm looking for a tutorial that would teach me how to do something similar to that but that a newbie will understand. Or maybe a highlight such as this: http://www.enhancedinnovations.com/flashindex.html (the navigation). If there are no tutorials on how to do this I'd be very greatful if someone could make one or teach me online. I would be willing to donate a template perhaps. It would really help me a lot. I tried to do a similar effect as seen here: www.oriongraphix.com/smiley.htm

I obviousley did not do it right, I was just trying to make myself look like a fool lol. I made a smiley in photoshop w/ a transparent face , then took it into flash, made a white square, added motion tween (rectangle is behind smiley layer of course) and there you have it. I want to do it the right way though.

I know you do it with a mask but I don't know how to set it up.

Also, if you know of a .fla example, please post it, it would be much appreciated!

Thanks for your help.

Combo Box - Un-Highlight Selection...
Ok, So what i want to do is this: I have a combo box filled with values, and I go to select one. Now I assume the part that you can always see next to the arrow is the label. If not I am going to call it the label. So Once I select something from the drop down list The label becomes the highlighted text. I tried something like this:

Code:
function fieldID() {
selected = _root.testList.getSelectedIndex();
testList.setSelectedIndex(selected);
}

where the change Handler in the component is "fieldID" but I get this error in the optput window:

"256 levels of recursion were exceeded in one action list.
This is probably an infinite loop.
Further execution of actions has been disabled in this movie."

I'm kinda at a loss here... I just want it not to be Highlighted once I make a selection from the list.

Thanks for you help!

Submenu / How Do I Highlight It When Selected?
I have a newbie question:

Here's a link to the flash movie I've created so far:

Shopping Site

Once the user makes a choice from the main scene (1st scene), the second scene will load up.

Within the second scene, I have a menu/submenu system. What I am trying to do is to figure out a way to have the first item of the submenu already 'pressed'. For example, under "Exhibition Information", I would like "Background" already highlighted.

In other words, for each submenu selection, I would like the text for it to be automatically highlighted. I was able to get this to work with the main menu, but haven't been able to apply the same concept to the sub-menu.

help!

[F8] Do Not Want Highlight On Mouseover

I have a problem where when I mouseover a button I made, it becomes outlined in a thin white line. Since I am working on a black background, it just isnt gonna fly. Is there some way I can unhighlight when the mouse goes over the button?