Flash :: [MX04] Typing

[MX04] How To Tell If User Is Typing Into A Input Text Box?
Hey guys,

I'm wondering if there is a way I can see if a user is typing into a input field.

Like if they are typing into the field a variable = 1

And if they are not or the field is empty it is = 0

Thanks,

Alex

Ghost Typing (or Self Typing Text)
I am new to Flash and was wondering if anyone knows a less than incredibly tedious way to set up a body of text to animate as if being typed by a "ghost typer" (for lack of better terminology). You have seen this all before in any movie with computers... the text scrolls across the screen letter by letter, stops, goes away, and then a new scroll of text appears on the screen, as if someone was entering the text while you were reading it. I have figured out one way by giving each letter a frame and animating that sequence, but this is incredible tedious and time consuming. If anyone has a better method please let me know. Thanks.

Typing FX
how do you do the typewriter typing fx with the flashing line at the end of a word waiting for input? sorta like matrix style.

Typing
How can i make it look like i'm typing something in a flash movie???

[MX04] [MX04] Action Script To Stop A Movieclip Playing
Does anybody know of any actionscript to put on a flash button that will make a movie clip stop playing when rolled over (not an offstate in the clip) but separately on the main timeline? Kind of like a stopallsounds but for a specific movieclip? I have something that is making me crazy!!

Typing Effects
please help me out here~
how do i make words come out like a typing effect with flash? like when i hit i certain button, text will "type" out one by one? do i have to add an extra letter on each frame or is there another way to do this?? please help...
cheers!

Typing Effects
http://www.freq-fest.com
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Broadband
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Contact

How has he done that text effect
(type something into one of the boxes)

Would appriciate any ideas, and source codes

tnx

Typing Effect
i want to create a typing effect where the text appears to be typed one letter at a time instead of apearing all at once - i cant find anything in the tutorials but i'm sure its possible. thanks for your help.

Typing Question - Please Help
Hello everyone

I am wondering how to do a similar effect to the one that can be seen here: http://www.jaymorgan.com (Rockford FX, advanced design studio).

See how when the thing like types, the letters appear? I want to do something similar to that with a graphic but have no clue how? Could you please post a very descriptive tutorial for Flash MX or link me to a similar one? I'd be very greatful

Thanks.

Typing To Activate
I am fairly new to flash, I have been creating cartoons forawhile but now i have been attempting to make a game. My question is: how do i create a text boxwhich can be typed into,and when certain words are typed in,it advances the movie to a different scene or frame?I would be using this as a level select cheat in my game...thanks to anyone whoever replies...

Typing With A Cursor?
right. as a small favour to a friend of mine - i am putting together a site for his new company.
clarkitecture.co.uk
in keeping with the general way the site is et out... i was hoping to find a way to make the text 'type' itself.
is there any easy (or relatively less time consuming) way to do this in flash or am i going to have to sit there for a very long time working out all the timings for each individual letter??!!
please help!!!!

Typing Script
http://www.geocities.com/robin_ariel.../raTyper2.html

Not sure if this post went thru

this link to an swf demo typing text file
it uses a mouse to click to the next typing text.
I wish to remove the mouse and have the movie go
to the next scene without a mouse intervention.
Please help!

actions for typerEngine
onClipEvent (load) {
buffer = _parent.text;
i = 0;
lastIndex = buffer.length;
_parent.text = "";
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (i<lastIndex) {
_parent.text += buffer.substring(i, i+1);
i++;
}
}

Typing In Swf-movie
hi
is there anybody who can tell me how I can create a flash-movie with the possibility to type with the keyboard in it. So when I press "a" on the keyboard, an "a" appears in the flash movie, and so on.
thanx for help.

Key Typing Effects
Is there an easier way to make the letters in words appear as though they are being typed. I know that putting in keyframes with seperate letters in them.

Letter Typing
Is there an easy way to make the letters look like they are appearing as they are typed?

Right now I am using a keyframe for each letter. I would think that there is a diffrent way.

To see what I am talking about. go to:
http://wwwnomold.com/dvd.html

look at the words when they appear in the top right.

I am in the very early stages of making the screen so a lot is not done yet.

thanks for any help!!!

Typing In Code?
Hi crazy flash people - i have some script to type in, but where do i go ? I have the actions layer open but can't seem to type in my own stuff - FLASH MX - Thanks in advance.

Text Typing
I want to make some text appear as if it is being typed. How would I make an effect like this: http://www.rastelli.com/AR.html I like the way his text in the top left comes in.

Typing Along A Path?
Can you do such a thing with Flash MX 2004?

Typing Text
okay so I followed the tutorial on the site for the text that types its self out but it dosent seem to work..Heres a link to the .fla if anybody could help me i'd appreciate it.

http://www.somebody509.us/somebody50...es/aboutme.fla

Typing Script
is there a script i can use that shows the text being typed on the screen

[F8] Typing Game
I'm making a typing game with the function "Key.isdown" and i cant figure out how to make it so when you press C, it will know. Is it even possible to do that?
(The word is can and you have to type it)

Typing Project
hey every body, its been a while, i know you all missed me.

but i have a quick question..

is it possible for flash to record the keystrokes and if some of the keys pressed forms a specific word, something happens, with out using text fields?

if that was not clear, imagine having a word being displayed infront of you, and you are to type the word out, with out clicking any where specific. and if a wrong letter is pressed, you must restart the word. simple, yes?

I'm just having difficulty getting it to work for me.

ps. to every body who has tried to help me in the past, and i have driven crazy with my terrible coding habits, you should know that in my absence from fk, i totally took care of them, and now, i code very beautifully.

[CS3] Typing In A Banner
Hi, I am doing a banner, and I want to have a typing area for people to type something they like, they also can choose fonts they like, then the result will show up in a container. I'm totally stuck, don't know where to start. Can someone help me out??

Thanks a lot.

Typing And Using TxtListeners
Is it possible to have a scenario in my Flash movie whereby a user types something, say "VIEW CONTENT" and then the content pops up?

And if they typed "ABOUT", then the about section could pop up?

I'm new to AS, but I'm playing around with TxtListeners but that doesn't seem to be working yet...

Any clues?

Runtime Typing
For the project im currently working on i need the text to appear to be "typing" on the screen, with one of those old-style block cursors (Something akin to the READY screen on the C64).
Problem is, im not that sure how to go about it, would it be easier doing this with a flashing cursor MC moving it across a line of text on the timeline, or with some sort of actionscript trickery using a dynamic text field?
Im really stumped about how to get this working, any suggestions would be brilliant!

Typing Numbers
Hi!

How can I type a number every second? Like here...

That page explained most of it, but not how to show it on screen...

Typing Effect
Hi, i know this has probably been answered before in the forums (but i can't seem to find any answers). how do you create the typing effect and not use a mask?

thanks!

How To Get A Typing Effect
hi guys

can anyone tell me how to get the typing effect so that it should look as it is being typed.

I am using flash 5

Thanks

HS

Simulate Typing
What is the simpliest way or ways to simulate a typing? I want to animate how a phrase of words appeared as a person is typing on his keyboard with each character at a time. Any idea is grateful.

Typing In Actionscript On A Mac
I have a problem that when using actionscript (flash 8) on my mac (G5 quad not intel) everytime I hit space it pushes everthing way on that particular line way down the action window. It still works but makes it a nightmare to edit because you cant see where to put the cursor cause there are hugh gaps everytime space is used.

I was told it may be to do with where I store my fonts on my mac.

Anyone know anything at all about this, cheers

Typing Superscript In AS2
hey guys, I wanna display area units through a dynamic text box , but the only way I know to show it is by using ^ operator, eg in^2 .. how can I display it like we write it by superscripting the 2?

Edited: 06/11/2007 at 04:03:51 PM by thunder_storm

Typing Games
does anyone have the action script for inputing text and then the user can type the text and itl play a movie CLIP? Im realy confused.

Edit in caps.

Typing Text?
im sure this has been covered somewhere,
but i cant seem to find it.

would anyone be so kind as to direct me to the post where they explain the text mask at http://www.yugop.com/?

-where it goes from all random characters " (!@&$(!@$!@$ " to words?

thankye

Typing(parents)
sometimes if you have something such as

parent.customMethod();

you get nasty outputs.

From what I understand you need to typecast the parent.
eg. parentClass(parent).customMethod();

is this the best practice?

Typing Effect?
Is there a way to make a typing effect with Arial Bold font?
I need a big paragraph typed out, but I need the fonts to have the arial look to them.
Thanks

Strict-typing
Hi guys.

I was just wondering if you strict-type your AS or avoid it in order to use the (sometimes very handy) prototyping.

Most of the time I strict-type because of the obvious reasons for doing so but recently I've found that a few prototypes have come in really handy, but they don't work when strict-typing.

Any thoughts or views on Strict-typing Vs Prototyping?

Typing A Property
is there a way, in AS2, to give a newly-created property a datatype?

for example, let's say i create an empty movieclip. i want my movieclip to have, say, a counter. so i write:

ActionScript Code:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("newMC", 1);
newMC.counter = 0;

how can i type that counter as a Number?

Typing Animation
I would like to insert an animation that simulates text being typed on screen. Please help.

Q: What About Strong Typing In AS3?
Hi all, I was wondering about this a while back. Does AS3 make any changes pertaining to the typing of variables? I know next to nothing about how AS3 will work, but I'm wondering if it's gonna be easier to type a lot of vars with it.

For example, now I have to do:
Code:

var eggs:Number = 2,
flour:Number = 300,
milk:Number = 50;

Is this going to be easier in AS3? (And prettier?) :?

Text Typing Out...
How can I make it so text looks like it is being typed out?

FOr example:
frames..
1: t
2:th
3:the
4:the c
5:the ca
6:the cat

but for a bunch of text without typing each letter in frame by frame? any code? any ideas?

thanks
J

Typing Effect Question
how can i produce text so that instead of showing all of it at once, it types each letter? i've seen this on other site but dunno how to do it
thanks!!!

Typing Text Effect....
this is the function i wrote in _root

function typeText(text){
_root.text = text;
if (this._currentframe<=_root.text.length+2) {
_root.textField = _root.text.substr(0, this._currentframe);
trace(this._currentframe);
}
if (this._currentframe>_root.text.length and this._currentframe<=_root.text.length+3) {
_root.textField = "";
} else if (this._currentframe>_root.text.length+3) {
this.gotoAndPlay(1);
}
}

and i call my function in a onject... by using this...

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_root.TypeText("VIVA WEB DESIGN");
}

but if i didnt call the funtion and add the statments directly into the object... like this...

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_root.text = "WEB_DESIGN";
if(this._currentframe <= _root.text.length + 2){
_root.textField = _root.text.substr(0, this._currentframe);
trace(this._currentframe);
}
if(this._currentframe > _root.text.length and
this._currentframe <= _root.text.length + 3){
_root.textField = "";
} else if (this._currentframe > _root.text.length + 3) {
this.gotoAndPlay(1);
}
}

this works fine..~!!

just want to know... did i call the funtion wrong of the variable location is changed... why doesn't it work if i apply it into function

Typing Effect With .txt File
Hi,

I am trying to create an effect as if someone is typing very fast, and I was hoping someone could point me to a tutorial that shows how to do this using movie clips, arrays, and a .txt file. I have seen it quite often and I would use an Extension, except that I am working on Mac, and I can't seem to find an extension that is compatible.

Please help,
Kathrica

Text Typing Effect.
Ok, i made a text typing effect for my website. The only limitation it has is that the blinking cursor will only work if the text is on one line. What I need to know is how I would go about finding the X and Y positions of the last character in a multi-line text box? Could it be done using a non set-width font?

Typing Code Error
I've been reading tutorials and I see that I need to type in some code. My problem is that when I try to start the code, the program isn't giving me any place to type in the code.

I'm simply trying to make a sprite move around the screen. Basic up, down, left, and right movements. I see what the code is to do so...just don't know why I can't type in anything. Am I doing something wrong or is flash acting funny on me? Thanks!!!

Text Typing Effect
Hi. I want the type on the introduction of my movie to look like it's being typed on the screen. How I did it was I typed out the line (white on black background), the on another layer I created a black rectangle over the text and motion tweened it across the text. It gave to effect I wanted, but is there a simpler way so that I don't have to do that with each line?

Was Typing When Request To Download Came Up
Okay I was typing something, maybe logging into something or chatting while surfing the web and the request to download one of the Flash things came up, and since I was hitting the buttons it did Never Ask Again and allow (or something like that) can I undo that? And since it doesn't ask it will say "You must restart for the new settings to take place", but when I do so nothing is changed and it just pops up again...Any help is greatly appreciated.

Typing In Letters In Flash?
I could use some tips or methods for typing letters in flash.

Let me describe what I'm trying to do.

I am making a movie where you see dialogue but everything in the dialogue is seen letter by letter, a.k.a being typed out.

The way I've been doing it lately is extremely long and tedious. You see Ive made an instance of each letter of the alphabet and spelling out the words using each letter and using a timeline for each letter. Doing this is way too long.

This noob needs help please

Making A Typing Game
I want to make a simple typing game. There will be a space ship or something in the middle, and alien ships will creep up on it from four sides, each holding a letter. The player has to type in the letters to fire at the enemy ships.

As the game progresses, the enemies approach with greater speed.

I can do basic animation on Flash. The only experience I've had with interactivity on Flash is making buttons.

I assume I need to figure out how to

1) Make random text pop up in the enemy ships
2) Set it so when you type in the text, your ship fires.

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I should mention that this game is going to be for learning Japanese. The alien ships are going to be sporting Japanese words, for which the player will have to type in the pronunciation. But the format is the same as a basic typing game.

Anyone remember that game, "Typing Wizard" from the 80's? That's the format I want to use!!

[MX04] Typing

is there any simple code to typing in a dynamic text box? like in the .swf?something like: on(keyPress "<?any key?>"){//get value of key and insert it into the text box in the nearest open spot}

is there any simple code to typing in a dynamic text box? like in the .swf?
something like:

on(keyPress "<?any key?>"){
//get value of key and insert it into the text box in the nearest open spot
}