Flash :: Breaking Apart Input Text With AS

Cgi Scripts Breaking Due To Text Input
Hey folks,

I've got a flash file that submits text to a PHP script for storage in a database. There are various characters and combinations of characters that will break the script. For example, two quotation marks in a block of text like this:

This is "properly" quoted.

WILL NOT break the script, but a single quotation mark by itself like this:

It"s a typo!

WILL break it.

I've tried to replace this character with actionscript, but haven't gotten my [if substr(textblock, i, 1) eq QUOTE] statement to work properly...

Also ( [ [] / : characters are problematic.

Is there a standard method for handling this problem? I've got a scheme for encoding the characters into special character pairs (`1, `2, `3, `4 etc...) and decoding the pairs with actionscript, and a separate chunk of decoding code in the PHP file, because it sends out an email with the text block enclosed. This seems messy to me, and I'm still getting limited errors here and there that I'm still trying to track down.

Any advice would be appreciated.

-steve

Bizarre Flash Breaking ... I'm Also Reaching Breaking Point...
Hi all,

I did a little Flash project a while ago:

http://www.theproblemofnothing.com

I just visited it recently here at work, on Firefox v. 2.0.0.2, and after loading the icons, it broke. Stopped dead. Yet it works on this comp on IE7. I tried another computer at work, and it worked in Firefox, but not in IE7 ... ? Bizarre. I'm posting this in the Actionscript section as I'm using lmctween.as, and I think that might be the issue.

Another issue that might be complicating things is my use of SWFObject for the main movie, and then loading SWF files externally into that movie. Or it might be the preloader I'm using and how I'm using it (eg. _root, etc.) Or something else.

I dunno guys. Everyone here's baffled. I'm sad. Please help! The site is above, and the FLAs can be found here:

http://www.theproblemofnothing.com/_fla

tpon.fla is the main movie, while art.fla is what I used to generate each file. Thanks a ton, and ... thanks!

Sincerely,
Mark (decisionman).

Breaking Apart Text
I want to break apart and animate some text. I have a letter in keyframe 1. Then, in keyframe 15, I choose "modify-break apart" and make my changes to the letter by using the select tool. Next I created a motion tween. However, when I test the movie, the letter doesn't break into pieces (to reflect keyfram 15). Any help would be appreciated!

Breaking Apart Text
Is there a way to break apart text fields created with actionscript, or a way to use alpha values with them?

dave

Breaking Text Apart
I imported a gif with chrome text

says

MINISTERS
OF
JUSTICE
ORGANIZATION

What i want to do with it is break apart the text so i can do an alpha fade with all the letters except the first letter in each word, MOJO.

When i try to go to modify break apart , it does not let me do it,or it selects the background as well, what am i doing wrong?

Breaking Text
is there to knew (some kind of parm in action-script) if there was line brake inside dynamic text field?

thanks
kuller

Text Breaking
Is it possible to break text over different lines in Actionscript?
i.e
Code:
text = "Bla bla bla bla bla
bla bla bla"
like that? I have tried doing that but it comes up with a syntax error. Is there a specific bit of code you need.

Breaking Text
I have a text field called text. in the first frame of the timeline, i put this code.

_root.text="Dog, cat, gun, man, tennis";

what i would like to do is to be able to put those into seperate rows. How would i do this? Like in HTML one can put "br" inbetween text and make it split. How can you do this with actionscript?

Breaking Apart Text
when i break apart text for some reason it keeps filling in letters, i.e. O's become filled circles.. This is happening with a few different fonts that i tried, including a pixel font i downloaded.. Does anyone know how i can stop/avoid this?

Currently using standard text boxes, font size is multiples of 8, positioning is on whole numbers..

The fill appears after the second break apart.

Cheers

Text Breaking Apart
Hello,

Me again! I know where the tool for breaking text apart, however when I right click on the desired text only one letter breaks off and the other letters disappear??? my frame rate is 24 and the frames between breaking are 20. Please help!

Thanks.

Ron

INPUT TEXT - How To Restrict Number Of Lines Of Text A User Can Input Into Textbox
In a flash form I've created I have a input textbox. I don't want the user to be able to input more than 7 lines of text. Is this possible to do? I know that I can set a value for 'max char', but this is not useful for me -- it's essential that the user cannot input more than 7 lines of text.

How can I limit the number of lines a user can input into a textbox?

Thanks!
Glenn

Breaking Text Onto It's Own Line
Is there a way to make the text that you are inputing into a dynamic text box through it's variable start on a new line using actionscript? I am working with a prompt from an input text box, then transfering it into a dynamic text box, and I want everything that goes into the dynamic text box to go into it on a new line.

Breaking Text And Animating Each
hi all,

My first time here, and I am excited to be here.

I have a huge request. I am doing a basic website for my church and one of the nice features I want to add to the site is a flash intro.

The church has a logo.

The logo has, I believe a dove or eagle perched on top of the name.

Please see attachment

The name reads:

Eagle
KINGDOM
Concepts Ministries

What I would like to do is break the logo into 3.

The first one will be the Concepts Ministries.

I want it to slide into place from the left.

Then sliding into place from right is the word KINGDOM

Finally, I would like to have the eagle fly in and perch on top of KINGDOM.

How difficult is this?

Can a beautiful heart assist me on this please?

Thanks in advance.

Breaking Dynamic Text To A New Line
I have just downloaded one of the FLA's used for animating text in flashtyper and I want to animate a block of text, but I can see no way of breaking the text that I put in the text Variable on to a new line, it just animates in one continuous line...

Any suggestions

Non Breaking Space In Dynamic Text?
Im reading a whole load of xml into flash which all works ok, however instead of putting a singe line space in after a carrage return in the xml it puts a double line space eg:
<studio id="7">
<studio_name>Desk & Stuff</studio_name>
<studio_text>Summit Audio Inc: Tube pre-amp/compressor limiter
Tubtec: Dual Compressor CL2A
TLA: C5021: Valve compressor
</studio_text>
</studio>

becomes

Summit Audio Inc: Tube pre-amp/compressor limiter

Tubtec: Dual Compressor CL2A

TLA: C5021: Valve compressor

if i use html formatting and put <br> in the xml it doesnt seem to work, perhaps it needs escaping?

any ideas would be great
thanks

Non-Breaking Space In Dynamic Text?
I've got a scrollable dynamic text box and I want to manually create a list in it. The problem is that for the every list item, the multiple spaces in front are being reduced to a single space, screwing up the layout of my list. I know that HTML can be utilized and I've even given it a test run, but I don't like the fact that the HTML text doesn't get anti-aliased. Is there a way to force non-breaking spaces into a Flash 8 dynamic text box without using HTML? Thanks in advance!

Breaking Up Text Doesn´t Work?
Hello people!

Strange thing just happen!
When i break apart text , he doesn´t change to graphical object.
Instead you can only select it with the arrow tool and you can still
edit as text!!

I´ve already download projects that use the break command
and when i play it on the flash mx it works, and when i select
any letter from these project , they are as graphical object...

It seems that this kind of bug only happens when i write and
break apart next...

Any ideia?
thanks
www.filete.net

Breaking Text In Letters Problem
I've a text with 200 characters. I want to show that text letter before letter. But when I break apart this text and then distribute to layer, i have 200 layers. This is too much!!!

How can I solve this problem easily, and without any download time issues?

Nico

Thanks

Non-breaking Space In External Text
I'm experimenting with loading from external .txt files, and i am coming across a problem...

If an ampersand (&) terminates the external text, how do I insert an html non-breaking space?
HTML Code:
 
This is really frustrating...any help would be appreciated.

Regards

Breaking Line In Dynamic Text Field
Hello guys,

Please help. I have an XML with a node, let's say like this:

Code:
<ROW text="This is a line which needs to be broken right here /n to go on from the other line"></ROW>
How can I break the line exactly where the /n is after I loaded this XML? Or how to change the XML to get this in the easiest way?
Thanks a lot for any comments, opinions, help, etc!

Poco

Breaking Lines On A Dinamicly Loaded Text
I´m loading text from a txt file but I´d have to break lines where desired.

I tried using
but it appear as text. how can I do it?

Thanks

Breaking Appart Text With AS And Putting In Array. Possible?
Hi,

I need to create a function with takes a text field and does two things with it

The first is to split text up into individual letters with each being a separate symbol. Basically the equivalent to breaking apart the text field, then converting each letter to symbols, then giving each letter its own unique name This is the way I'm doing it now and its very time consuming and not at all easy to update to text.

The second part is to create an array containing all the instant names.

For example if the text was "hello world", the function would create symbols with called n1 (containing h) , n2 (containing e) , n3 (containing l), n4 (containing l), n5 (containing o), and then the array would be [n1,n2,n3,n4,n5]

I'm working on something and if I get past this last problem then its gonna look so good. Thanks in advance,

Julian K

Carriage Return Breaking Dynamic Text
Hello!

I have a user inputted textfield (html) I am calling in dynamically from a Coldfusion variable. Everything works fine IF the user has not simply hit carriage return in their text. <br> and html tags work fine but if the text contains any hard returns my flash file does not display at all...

I am using swfobject...

<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject("flash/intro.swf", "mymovie", "815", "420", "8");
so.addParam ("wmode","opaque");
so.addVariable ("textBoxer","<cfoutput>#contact.paragraph#</cfoutput>");
so.write("flashcontent");
</script>

....as you can see, my contact.paragraph (the input text) is being placed into my dynamic text box in the flash "textBoxer"...everything works fine as long as the user does not use enter to create a new line - unfortunately it is habit and they all do so...any way around this??
I have tried other variables to be sure its not format/syntax and it pulls them in just fine. Even re-entered user text with <br> rather than enter and it worked...

ANY help is most appreciated. Really hit the wall with this one. Thanks!

Blessings,
Hinsel

Breaking Text Into Movieclips/sprites For Tweening
I work at a firm and one of the things we'd like to do is do some basic text f/x -- fading, moving individual letters in on a swirl, etc. TweenMax seems ideal to do this (particularly the .allTo capability). In fact we've got a project where it's all being done the timeline!

Is there any way in AS3 to take input text (which can be in the form of an existing static textfield, or added dynamically to a dynamic textfield), break it up into individual movieclips or sprites and then tween those separately -- while keeping the text arrangement on screen (spacing, line breaks, etc)? At present we have to go in by hand, and use the IDE "break" command to break the text strings into individual letters, and then, by hand, turn each of those into movie clips. Then we can tween them. Since the text changes often, you can imagine how time-consuming this is (it's for banners -- many, many banners).

One could of course rather easily take text in AS3 and turn each letter into a movie clip -- but how would one be sure of spacing, kerning, line breaks, etc, between letters?

Thanks for any help!

Robert

Breaking Lines In Flash /Dinamic Text From Xml
I´l loading some text from a xml filme into Flash (dinamic text field)

But I can´t break the lines. When trying to break the lines with ENTER on the xml, the flash breaks two lines.

I learned that using #&10; the lines would break just once. But how can I make this if I´m going to build a xml editor using php? Is there another method of breaking lines when desired on xml?

thanks a lot

Breaking Apart Large Piece Of Text = HUGE Slowdown ?
This is so weird....I made textblock of 25 lines of text in Adobe Caslon type.
I broke it all apart, turning each line into a movieclip and then turning each word into a nested clip.

Can't do it any other way, cause I need to scroll the whole text through a mask and have some words fade out earlier than others.

But the problem is that the CPU usage in both MX 2004 and the standalone flash player is over 90% !!!! The scrolling, without ANY code other than a simple mcText.tween("_y", -500, 60, "linear", 0) to move it up, makes it all look choppy!!

UpdateAfterEvent doesn't make a different either (it's as useless as usual).

Any advice/hints would be VERY much appreciated. My assignment is getting to run late like that

Help With Email Form - Input Text Boxes Not Allowing Input
i placed an email form into a movie clip in this site...and the input text boxes are no longer allowing me to type into them.

the email form (which i got from flashkit), as it's own file, works fine, so i know it's possible...but for some reason when i take the movie clip from one file and drag it into the one i'm working on...it loses that input text funcionality. All the actionscript is the same...everything is identical...i don't get it.

i even tried to place it on top of a movie clip within the main content clip thinking maybe because it was an mc within an mc within an mc that had something to do with it...but not the case.

any help you can provide is appreciated.
(attached file was saved as MX..orig is in MX 2004 Pro)

thanks.

oh, also....how would i load movie clips to different layers?...if i understand some things i've read here, that will help me speed up the site overall...as it is VERY slow in browser. but...maybe i'm wrong.

Remove Input Text On Input Text Box Select?
Right now I've got an input text box with an instance name of EMail and Var of EMail. Then in my AS I've got:

code: var EMail:String = "Enter Your Email Address";

which puts "Enter Your Email Address" in the text box when it displays. What I'd like to do is when a user clicks inside the box to enter their email address is for that string to disappear.

Input Text To Show Up In Input Text Box In Later Frame
Hi, I am making a game where the player enters his or her name into and input text box at the beginning and then prints out a certificate at the end with his or her name on it. This is the actionscript I am using, however, this only allows me to have the box where the player enters his or her name to be on the same frame as where the text appears.

input_txt.onKillFocus = function () {
user_name = input_txt.text;
input_txt2.text = user_name;
}
_global.style.setStyle("fontSize",30);

I was wondering if there was anyway to modify this script to make it so that the name appears in the input_txt2 box in a later frame.

Thanks,

Lindsay

What Are The Best Ways To Capture Input From An Input Text Field?
Hi,
I don't know ASP, CGI, PHP etc. I do, however, have a flash form with two input text fields named “E-mail” and “Name”, and a submit button.

How can I set this up so a user can input the info in these two fields and click the submit button to some how send me the data - Via Email? txt on the server? Anything...

Also, if this is not possible, what is the simplest way to learn PHP or whatever is most appropriate to get these goals accomplished.

Thanks,
Stephen

Converting Input Text To Non-input With Actionscript
Is it possible to set a text field whose property is Input to Static Text with Actionscript?

Input Text Field Won't Allow Input
We are having a really strange and stupid sounding problem with a text input box. It appears but won't allow any input. Before you shout 'stupid newbie' yes the properties are correctly defined as input text etc.

The input field is in a movie clip i.e. _root.myClip but we have never had this problem before. It is probably something obvious to to prevent us pulling out all of our hair has anyone got any idea why this is happening. We have tried forcing the text box focus etc but to no avail.

Help us!!!!!!!

How To Input Text Without Input Textfield
hi,

does anyone know, how i can display user input text without a textinput field ?

what i'm trying to achive is a message that is displayed on screen like in multiplayer games:

you press "t" for talk, and you see what you write in a kind of console but without changing to a text field

thanks

Trasfering Text From One Dynamic Text Box To A Input Text Box On A Differnt Page?
Ok so I have a text box set up which receives the date on a callendar which you click on. On another page (a seperate html file) I have an input text box for receiveing this text.

I've been trying to do this using various methods using getURL, but, I can't get it to work. This is becoming tedious especially as I'm not able to test it without having to reupload the files.

If someone could please inform me on how I should do this I'd be vary greatful.

If you need any further information I'll reply as soon as possible.

Input Boxes - Then Printing A Frame With Dynamic Boxes With The Input Text In Them...
I have created a flash document with input text... I put the input text with a a variable for each.. I need to print the variables on a seperate page. I used a bounding box inside a movie clip and the printing is working correctly... However it is not reading my input boxes into the dynamic text boxes..

What I did is I have the input boxes on the root timeline........ You input it and go through a few frames and you get the option to print from a button (which is printing 2nd frame of a movie symbol) NOTE: the printing is working correctly using #b.... This is what I have on the 2nd frame of the movie clip for the dynamic text boxes to read the input boxes and place those variables inside of those dynamic text boxes so it will print them as they inputted them...

Here is what I have for my button:

on (press) {
print(_root.Printing, "bmovie")
}

Here is what my variables are on the input boxes which are sitting on the root timeline, each word is a variable:

curious
passionate
accountable
resourceful
commited
teamwork
open
engerizing

External_focus
Clear_thinker
Imagination_courage
Inclusive_leader
Expertise

INSIDE THE PRINTING MOVIE I HAVE A FRAME WITH THIS ACTION ON IT FOR THE DYNAMIC TEXT BOXES TO READ THE INPUT TEXT BOXES:

External_focus1 = _parent.External_focus;
Clear_thinker1 = _parent.Clear_thinker;
Imagination_courage1 = _parent.Imagination_courage;
Inclusive_leader1 = _parent.Inclusive_leader;
Expertise1 = _parent.Expertise;
curious1 = _parent.curious;
passionate1 = _parent.passionate;
accountable1 = _parent.accountable;
resourceful1 = _parent.resourceful;
commited1 = _parent.commited;
teamwork1 = _parent.teamwork;
open1 = _parent.open;
engerizing1 = _parent.engerizing;

FOR SOME REASON IT IS NOT PRINTING MY INPUT BOX INFORMATION IN THE DYNAMIC TEXT BOXES.... DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY?

Long Text Doesn't Fit Inside Single-line Input Text Field
Hi, I've been browsing these forums for a long time but this is my first post.

I'm creating an interface by which a user can design and order their own customized decal. Please see my example (I've added my script at the bottom of this post):
http://www3.sympatico.ca/sin.young/decaldesigner.html

My issues are:

1. I've set the character limit to 21, but if you were to type in 21 "W"s into the input field for whatever reason, or choose a wider font, the text shifts to the left and some of the characters become hidden as they don't all fit. I'd like to make the width of the text to always fit inside of the width of the white area. I can't figure out how to make this work.

Here's an example that does pretty much what I'm trying to describe: www.stickerjunkie.com.

2. I have the Standard Colors combo box working perfectly but can't seem to get the Fonts combo box working.

Any hints or links to actionscript tutorials/help that might be useful to my predicament is extremely appreciated.

// display colors and formatting
decalColor = new Color(decal);
color1 = new Color(decalColor);
//
function changeColor(comp) {
decalColor.setRGB(comp.getSelectedItem().data);
}
//Standard Colors array
standardcolors = [{label:'STANDARD COLORS'},
{label:'White', data:0xffffff},
{label:'Black', data:0x000000},
{label:'Silver', data:0x9c9c9c},
{label:'Gray', data:0x636b73}];

collistStandard.setDataProvider(standardcolors);
collistStandard.setSelectedIndex(0);
collistStandard.setChangeHandler('changeColor');
//
//Fonts array
myfonts = [{label:'FONTS'},
{label:'Arial', data:'Arial'},
{label:'Serpentine', data:'Serpentine'},
{label:'Enviro', data:'Enviro'},
{label:'Forte', data:'Forte'}];

fontlist.setDataProvider(myfonts);
fontlist.setSelectedIndex(0);
fontlist.setChangeHandler('');

Passing User Input Values(text Form) Into A Text File
Hey,

I've created a form-like input to receive user input in the form of text in a frame. Now, I would like to pass that input into an external text file. I hope to get help to implement this. Let's assume that this app will be only used locally and not over the web.

Thanks

Page 2 - Long Text Doesn't Fit Inside Single-line Input Text Field
Truth hurts doesn't it.

BOOM!

Loading Text Files Into Multiline Input Text Boxes
Can someone tell me if it is possible to load text files (.asp, .txt, .css, .js) into a multiline input text box in FlashMX?

I have a text box called "textArea" that I want to use as the text editor for any text file on the server.

myTextStream = "somefile.xxx";
textArea.text = myTextStream;

Problems With Formating Text Cursor In Input Text Field II
You have a cursor which you move with your mouse, and when you type text in form field you have another cursor which is in this FlashKit form colored black.

I want it to be white.

There isn't a tut. to do that.

__________________
Buby

Input Text Fields Colours To Fade In And Out On Entering Text?
I am uploading a file with input text field that changes colour when you click in it - this is great, but what if i wanted the following:

in the initial state, the text box is grey as you can see, but when i click inside it, it fades to pink instead of suddenly just changing to pink. And likewise, when i click outside the box it fades back to grey.

You will see what i mean if you view the file.

it's mx not mx2004

Thanks.

Making A Input Text Field Remove Text When Clicked
Hi,

I would like to know how would you remove text within a Input textfield when clicked. For example Barney's New York website has this field with text displaying Enter Email to subscribe, so when u click on the field it will remove the text when clicked.

"Click on the fallowing below, so you would know what exactly what I'm talking about."

http://www.barneys.com

Thanks!

Abel Gudino(Creativemindz.biz)

[MX04] How Do I Make A Dynamic Text Always Have The Exact Same Text As An Input?
Well, I want the player of my game to be able to type in the name they want, but the script in the frame I have does not work.

I have two movie clips on the same frame. One is a character selection menu that allows you to put in your name using an input box called ", choose your face, etc., then you click the blue button to close that movie clip (Skips to empty frame 2 in the movie clip), showing the actual level, where your HUD that is supposed to show your name that you typed in the input text box is.

I put this non-working code in the frame:
_root.charactermenu.playername.text = _root.player_HUD.player_name.text;

Yes, I am aware that I put an underscore in one, and not in the other. It is to prevent confusion.

The first part is the input text and the second is the HUD part.

Can anyone help me get this working?

Actionscript: Email Text From An Input Text Field Problem.
I am having difficulty with my email example.
I am using Flash mx2004 pro 7.2

(This example needs to be viewed in a explorer browser)

My first problem is that when you type in the & Character into the input text field.
The text following the & Character cuts out when sending info to the outlook program..

The code on my send button looks like this:

on (release) {
getURL("mailto:Youraddress@domain.com?subject=Stan dard title"+"&body="+body);
}

I would also like to find out if it’s possible to retain text format from a copy/paste job into a input text field that translates all the way to outlook.

Thanks for any suggestions you may provide.
~Josh

MouseChildren = False + Text Input = No Text Selection Cursor
I need to be able to set mouseChildren to false and still see the text selection cursor when rolling over the field. Everything is currently working correctly except the text selection cursor has changed to the regular pointer. Any ideas?

Can't Access Dynamic Text>properties>var (text Input Field) In AS3
Hello,

I got VB to put text in a dynamic text field I created in actionscript 2 but can't get it to work with as3. The difference being that in as2 I can draw a dynamic text field on the stage name the instance 'testField' in properties and then there is a var: text box also in properties where I can add a variable name 'testVar.' As3 won't let me access that var:text box in properties. Why is this? For some reason VB needs both the instance name 'testField' and also the variable name 'testVar.' How do I set the variable name in as3 for a dynamic text field? Is the var:text box in properties to give the dynamic text field a variable name in as2?

Thank you if you can help me clear this up! If something in my questions does not make sense please ask me!