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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,

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

guys i need help on this

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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How can I have the text in an input field highlighted when the input field is given focus (much like when you click the address bar of your browser, and the address is highlighted so you can type right over it)?

I was thinking something like:
myText_txt.onSetFocus = function(){
Selection....what??
}

Thanks.

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Highlight Text In A Textfield?
Hi,

doe's anybody know's if there's a why 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'll apreaciate any help,

Thanks,

Oz.

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Text Highlight Color
Hi yall,

Does anyone know if there is a way to change the text highlight color for a text box?

I have white text on a black background that is selectable...the only problem is it highlights the selection in black so it isnt visible. Any workarounds for this?

thanks in advance.

JTK

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Allow User To Highlight Text
Hi,

I want the user to see a pencil/highlighter tool on screen which they can click on if they wish and use to highlight text on the screen.

I've been looking for ages but can't find a simple answer to this.All help appreciated.

Fran

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Regarding this tutorial:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/acti...pdown_menu.htm

Does anyone know how to highlight the menu text rather than the button background (on rollover)? I tried using a color object, TextFormater, and finally, I tried making two frames for the menu text item (one for default and one for highlighted text) but nothing is working. I think the real problem is in finding the correct name for the menu items. I'd appreciate it if someone could figure out the correct clip name to use (for the above tutorial file).

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is there any easy way to change the highlight color of a dynamic text field?

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Very New at Flash, so please help...

Heres the deal, I have a WAV file I am trying to synchronize Highlighted text to.

For example Base layer is one text block, Black text
Each word Layer is A single word, as Maroon Text, directly overl base
Goal .. as word is heard, text highlights til next Word..

This File is maybe 200 layers and already huge 500k... How can I do this with 3 instead of 203 layers

As Example....

Sound__Voice Layer - Speech Wav saying "This is the Text Sample"
Maroon_Word5 Layer_________________Sample
Maroon_Word4 Layer____________Text
Maroon_Word3 Layer________the
Maroon_Word2 Layer______is
Maroon_Word1 Layer__This
Black___Base__Layer__This_is_the_Text_Sample

PS trying eval flash mx 2004

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Hi. Can anyome let me how when I click on the text box in the SWF file the text box should highlight to let the user known that the text box clicked is active. Thanks in advance..

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is it possible to change the highlight colour of selectable text in a dynamic text field. I have a black background and white text and the default highlight colour of the selected text is black so it looks like nothing is selected
Thanked in advance
searched forum and i can't get an answer to this

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is it possible to, after highlighting some text in a field, click a button that puts brackets either side? so: 'I like Adobe's Flash Product' could be made into: 'I like Adobe's (Flash) Product' with a simple click.

tnx

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Hi all,

I'm having a problem with some of my text input fields. After I fill out one of these fields and then click in it, the cursor jumps to the beginning of the field no matter where in the field I really clicked. That's OK, but...

If I then try to highlight the text that's in the field by using my mouse, it doesn't highlight. I can only highlight using the keyboard, by using SHIFT + one of the arrow keys.

Has anyone else experienced this? Thanks for any help!

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How To Highlight Certain Text In Dynamic Textbox
Hi, is it possible for me to highlight certain paragraph or lines in a dynamic textbox?

I only know how to highlight all the text in the dynamic textfield.

Here is my codes:

function colorText(myTextField)
{
var myTextFormat = new TextFormat();
myTextFormat.color=0x00FF00;
myTextField.setTextFormat(myTextFormat);
myTextField.setNewTextFormat(myTextFormat);

}

colorText(myTextfield);

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I just completed a Flash site but am stumped on how to force hightlight a single text box (area). Let me explain the site (or game interface).

This site is a game interface for a campaign my work place is running. What will happen is a user will come into the branch with a pre-print "ID CARD" and scan that card into this system to see if they won a prize.

I used simple "password" actionscript to get the users "ID Card" barcode read out tp bring them to one of four pages. Those pages let the user know what they have won, if any thing.

Where I'm stumped is that I want the single text entry area on the "SCAN YOUR CARD" page to be automatically highlighted when the user hits this page. I'm sure there is a way but I'm not finding it.

The site I built is a 5.5 FLA file but I could upload a smaller example of the site and/or upload the SWF to my servers if this would help.

Thanks,
Jenny

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Text-selection Highlight Problem
I am using MX2004 / AS2 and I have an application with an assortment of textfield objects that are color coded. I use code of the form

Code:
var oColor:Color = new Color (textFieldReference);
oColor.setRGB(0x009900);
It colors the textfields fine, but I allow the user to select the text with their mouse; the color effect when the text is selected is to highlight the background with the same color as the text-color, but not to change the text color (to white for example) so that it can still be read -- highlighted text becomes a solid block of color that makes the letters essentially invisible.

Is there an extra step I'm missing to make selected text work as expected -- reverse the color of the foreground when the background is selected/highlighted?

thanks,
BR

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I'm trying to highlight certain text based on a regular expression. I am getting the lecture and the "keywords" (those to be highlighted) from XML and I have it coverted to a string. I'm using the regular expression to look for the given words in the lecture. How would I return a string with styling modifications?

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Highlight Specific Text In A Textfield
Hi all
My client wants a search facility on his flash site. You type in the search phrase or word and a list of pages appears, you click on the link and it takes you to that page. so far so good.

What I want to be able to do is highlight the phrase everytime it appears on the page. There are several textfields on each page containing text. I would like to be able to make the searched for phrase stand out in some way, preferably using a coloured box around the words.

Any suggestions? Im nearing the deadline and need help on this.

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Selectable Text Highlight Colour
Does anyone know if you can change the colour used to highlight text in a selectable text field? It's cause the background colour of the site is black and the highlight colour is also black, it's white text so ideally I'd like to set the highlight colour on selected text to 50% grey. Any help would be much appreciated.

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in javascript one can use a button that will highlight and copy text from a textbox.

can it be done with MX?

I'm sure someone has posted about this but I couldn't find an answer.

any help would be great-
Thanks
Natasha

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I have several textInput components on the stage and would like to somehow show the characters
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of text is active. Any help on this would, as always, be greatly appreciated.

jH

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Highlight Colour Of Dynamic Selectable Text
Hi
is it possible to change the Highlight colour of dynamic selectable text. I have white text on a black background and the default colour of the hightlight colour is also black so it doesn't look like anything is selected when it actually is
Thanked in advance

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[Actionscript] Pre-filled Text That Dissapears When You Highlight
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I understand how you get the text there with variables but not how you make it dissappear when you highlight them.

I've tried to find a tutorial on it but I can't find any. Please don't tell me to google it because I've tried that for several hours. So if someone please would be nice enough to tell me how to do it I would be soooo happy. Thanks.

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This is currently sending my crazy!
I would love if anyone could help me find a way in which I can highlight text in flash.
The css property background-color isn't accepted by flash.
The text is also going to be dynamic so I can't just draw it in.
It has to support multi line as well, so simply getting the width of the text box is also a no.

If anyone could help me here it would be greatly appreciated, I am going loco over something so simple!

Cheers.

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"Highlight" Text In A Text Field
I am trying to think of a good way to do this. I have a field that you can start to type someone's name into and it retrieves a list of names starting with your string. An example would be you type "A" and it returns a list of "Alex, Allen, Able", then if you type "l", it would then send the string "Al" and return only "Allen, Alex". That works fine. But what I'm wondering about, is there any way I could return the the rest of the string back to the text field, but still let people continue typing from where they left off. It would have to highlight the rest of the text so you could type over it. Getting back to my example, if you've typed "Al", it would return "Alex" to the text field, but is there a way you could keep typing and write over the "ex" so if you typed a second "l", the string would be "All" and it would then return the next result, which would be "Allen". I know features like that exist in programs like Lotus Notes, but is there any way to do it in Flash?

Thanks for any input!

-k

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Guys,

Got an easy (?) one here. How do I change (or disable), the color of the "highlight color" on a Input Text box when a viewer hits the "Tab" key?

Example Here:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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

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I tried writing it as:
_parent.colSetUp(this, "0xFFFF00", _alpha=50);
But that didn't go over too well.
Thanks for the help.
Jo

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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.

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Kaan.

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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?

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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

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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.

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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?
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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

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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.

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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!

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