Flash :: ComboBox Over HTML Text Shows Link

Flash Shows Broken Link In Browser But Not DW
I need some desperate help. I have been putting up videos on my websites for the past year and have never had this problem before. In the last two weeks everytime I have loaded a video into Dreamweaver using flash swfs that connect to the other flash files I upload into the same file in dreamweaver. I then drag the swf into the page and it connects everything. I am still able to watch the video in the preview for Dreamweaver but now everytime I load that video to the server the link is broken. This has been happening on two different websites I have been updating in the last two weeks. When I open the pages in the Safari there is only a green bar showing the link can't be made and the Activity window tells me that the browser is trying to connect to the flv still on my hard drive and not on the server that I uploaded it too. Why is this happening and how do I fix it? Thanks.

HTML Textfield Shows My Html Tags?
My html properties of my textfield are set on true and STILL he shows all my html tags? (property is set with actionscript AND in properties panel)

The XML with the html content looks like this:
====================================
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<texts>
<text><![CDATA[ <p>Vai kaut reizi esi</p>]]></text>
</texts>
====================================
Code:
var xmlTexts:XML = new XML();
xmlTexts.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlTexts.onLoad = function(ok) {
if (ok) {
var varText = this.firstChild.firstChild;
mvcText1.txt.html = true;
mvcText1.txt.htmlText = new String(varText);
//mvcText1.txt.htmlText = "<p> this is text </p><p> this is text </p><p> this is text </p>";;
trace("HTML set on "+mvcText1.txt.html);
}
};
xmlTexts.load("texts.xml");

Html Text Link Extends Beyound Text
I am using html enabled dynamic text fileds, and when I add an <a href>, it makes the area of the text field after the link active as well.<BR/>see it here, in the blog list on the lower right.
www.fifty2one.com
on a nother site, I an dynamically attaching a movie clip and filling the data for a project. If a link is added to the text box of one of the projects, it seems to make all of the text boxes of the projects before it active as well.
www.daielgoldmusic.com
If you go to music project #8 Hawaii, there is a link there for a qt movie. click back to any of the projects before it, and scroll over the area where the link for #8 is, and you will get an active link area.

I can't figure this out.
Thanks
Russ

Html Text Link
Question, I have a text field in flash with HTML tags ... one of them is a html link... example <a href="www.yahoo.com">Yahoo.com</a>...
is there a way to make that link do a command in flash???

Please let me know

Rafael

Text Link To A New Html Pop Up Page
Hi

i was wondering if someone can tell me how i can make text as a link and also make that go to a new pop up window?
thanks

Html Link In Actionscript Text
I have a dynamically loaded text field that gets the text from an external .txt file. I would like to put a html link in the text with the underline and all. Any ideas of how to do this?

Cheers,
Jason

Dynamic Text As HTML Link
Hi,

I have a simple Dynamic Text and i would like to make it ack like a button (so over, out, hit, and so on).
however, the text (as it is dynamic text) will change during the process.

i've setup a dynamic text that i converted to button.
however, i'm not anymore able to setup the text displayed by this button sinc it is as Button.

how is it possible ?

thanks a lot,

A.

Turning Text Into A HTML Link
Hi I've been able to make sites for some time that use an updateable text file to allow the web admin to chnage the site contents. However I now need the admin to be able to insert a link as well as text, is this going to be possible. How would the text have to be formatted to have this effect?

Flash Text Html Link
okay i'm going out of my mind. i have a movieclip that has scrolling dynamic text within it and i need some of those words within that text to be able to call another movieclip when clicked...i knwo i need to use html to do this but i have no idea how to go about it can someone please help me??

Html Links: Link From One Text Box To Another
Can anyone tell me how i can get a bunch of links from an external text file, rendered in a text box, link to another text file, that renders in another text box? Im trying to make it that when you click on the link in the first textbox, it opens up the corresponding linked content in the other textbox, instead of opening up a browser window. If anyone knows how to do this, it would be most appreciated. Thanks

Html Text Link Not Working
I had to do some maintenance on an older flash site I built (Flash MX, AS2.0). I have some href links in a html text. For some reason they are no longer working correctly. If you click on it, it will do nothing. If you right-click on it, a menu will open with options to Open, Open in new window, & Copy link.

Any idea what I did wrong?

Thanks!

My Quicktime Page Works Locally, But Shows A Broken Link When I Post It Online.?
I don't understand why, but when I launch the html page from my desktop, the quicktime, PANO file seems to work.

When I post them up on the web, it shows a broken link.

The embed code is...

//<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="255"
CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" BORDER="4"><PARAM NAME="SRC" VALUE="Studio.pano">
<PARAM NAME="AUTOPLAY" VALUE="TRUE"> <PARAM NAME="CONTROLLER" VALUE="TRUE">
<EMBED SRC="Studio.pano" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="255" CONTROLLER="TRUE"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/"> </OBJECT>

What is going on?

Thanks.

How To Link Text To A .html To Show It In A New Window?
Does anybody knows how to link text (not a bottom) to a .html file which has to be shown in a new window (_blank). Attention, link text, no a bottom.
In other words, I’m trying to do what in html would look like this:

<a href="the_page.htm" target="_blank">Click here</a>

, but I’m trying to insert this in the Character => URL field of Flash 5. Every time I link a .html file from there, it is shown in the same window as the flash movie is been played. I’ve tried with java script, but It seems that I can’t place java script in that field.

All the comments and/or suggestions are welcomed.
Pablo

Html Text Link In External Txt File.
Hi there, I got a dynamic text area in a flash movie and the text is actually linked from an external txt file.

I'm wondering whether i can put a html text link syntax inside the txt file? I tried to put <a href="http://www.cnn.com">cnn</a> but it doesn't work.

please help!

Setting Status Bar From Link Within HTML Text Box
Hi... this has been tried using Flash 5...

I know that if you want to set the status bar when rolling over a button you use getURL()... but I want the status bar to display the web address of the link created in a text box in which HTML is used

i.e. my HTML text box says for example:

"to link to my webpage <a href=" + linkVar + ">Click here</a>" ;

where

linkVar = "http://www.mywebpage.com";

has been set earlier to avoid confusion over the double quote marks) .

I want the status bar to read "Link to: http://www.mywebpage.com" and have tried:

"to link to my webpage <a href=" + linkVar + " onMouseOver = " + statusLink + ">Click here</a>" ;

where

statusLink = "window.status='Link to: http://www.mywebpage.com'; return true;";

has been set earlier to again avoid double quote problems...

in other words calling javascript, but this does not seem to work though it logically seems like it should

anyone any ideas?

thanks in advance

Chris

HTML Link In Dynamically Imported Text?
I can't seem to get a URL link in my dynamicallyt, imported text to work...
Is it not possible?
I checked the Flash Help documents and they offered very little specific information eluding to what the problem might be. Just a bunch of vauge information about enabling the text box with ActionScript but no info on where the script should go.
Every time I run the page I've created, the <a> tag shows up in the text box instead of making a link.
The "Render Text as HTML" button is on... The fonts are not embeded (if that matters)... Any ideas?

A Link To A Html Page From Dynamic Text ?
i load a dynamic text (a description to a dynamic image)

i want to put a link there to a new html site with more pics on it.

whats the code i should use because <a href="test1.html">more pics</a> doesnt work

any help apprechiated

HTML Link To Load Dynamic Text
Can't seem to figure this out.

I want to know how to load an html page with the correct text file loading in the Dynamic text box.

The reason is that I'll have about 20 different articles to open but I'd like to use the same swf file. I just want an html link on the page to be able to load the various text needed.

Thanks for any help.

/hope that I was clear.

Creating An Internal Link With HTML Text
I am loading and displaying HTML text inside flash. The html text is styled using an external css document. All is well except one of the html links needs to navigate the flash timeline. Is there a way to insert ActionScript in the link tag:

<a href="gotoAndStop("labelname")> Label Text</a>

Do I need to call an external javascript function to message back to flash what label to go to?

<a href="gotoAndStop("labelname")> Label Text</a>

Is there an easier way and I don't see it?

Jim

HTML Link In XML Throwing Off Text Formatting
I have this text below in my xml file:

Code:
<page name="contact">Postimpressions Incorporated
1400 Maryland Avenue
Wilmington, Delaware 19805

[ p ] 302.656.2271
[ f ] 302.656.0628
[ e ] <a href="mailto:postimpressions@verizon.net">postimpressions@verizon.net</a></page>
And then when I publish, the text in my swf shows up like this (first line gets bumped down 1 and indented, email link gets bumped down and indented):

Code:

Postimpressions Incorporated
1400 Maryland Avenue
Wilmington, Delaware 19805

[ p ] 302.656.2271
[ f ] 302.656.0628
[ e ]
postimpressions@verizon.net
When I pull the HTML link out, that formatting issue goes away. Anyone know why it would be causing that problem?

This is my code for parsing the xml in flash:

ActionScript Code:
function loadXML(event:Event):void {
xml=new XML(event.target.data);
parseXML(xml);
}

function parseXML(xmlHandle:XML):void {
var pageList:XMLList=xmlHandle.page;
for (var i:Number=0; i < pageList.length(); i++) {
var pageElement:XML=pageList[i];
pages[i]=pageElement;
}
}

Small Html Window Link From Text Box
Wonder if there is any one who knows about scripts to open and html small window from flash text box?

Html Formated Text Link In Flash
Hi Everybody,

I have, inside a textArea, a word that is formatted HTML in Flash with a <A HREF> tag.

Is there any way to change that text's color (only the one inside the A tag) when you click on it, or when you do rollOver?

Thanks a lot

Embed An Actionscript Link In An HTML Text?
Does anyone know whether it's possible to embed something like a link in an HTML text field that can call an Actionscript function?

In other words, I know that its possible to use an <A HREF=...> tag if you want the link to launch an HTML page, or call a javascript function, but I'd like to embed a link that, when the user clicks it, calls a bit of actionscript. Can this be done?

Thanks for your advice and insight!

Cheers!

Edit The Html-doc That Shows My Swf
First off, I know this is not a html forum but our swf's are played in them so..

This morning i've read someones reply on how to get rid of the margin in the html document.
This i love !!! Now here it is...

I have made my website in 800 x 440 pix to get a nice view in the general explorers setting.. (matter of taste perhaps).
This in 100 percent / show all mode makes the site appear and almost completely use the window in a kind of widescreen look (especially with the margins set).

Now the only thing left is the place where the scrollbar usually is in the explorerwindow.
It is now usable but the space is still occupied by the damned shape of the thing.

Can someone make this go away too ?

IN SHORT... If i use show all it makes it so that there is no scrollbar... but the space where that bar normally is is still not available... how can i make that space REAL space ???

Thnx in advance !

Flash Action Link In Dynamic HTML Text Box
I am currently developing a Flash Website for a client and I would like to do the following:

I load text from a mySQL DB into a dynamic textbox in Flash with the HTML option ticked.

With this HTML option the dynamic text can contain a link to a specific webpage, what I would like to do is have the link in the textbox perform an action in the flash file.

The way I figured it out was that I use an FScommand in the webpage where the flash file is embedded and try to call it within that link.

I'm not really familiar with that concept, can someone tell me if it is possible doing this using an FScommand and get me started on how to code it ?

All help is greatly appreciated !

Funky Joe

Embed An Actionscript Link In An HTML Text Field?
Does anyone know whether it's possible to embed something like a "link" in an HTML text field that can call an Actionscript function?

In other words, I know that its possible to use an <A HREF=...> tag if you want the link to launch an HTML page, or call a javascript function, but I'd like to embed a link that, when the user clicks it, calls a bit of actionscript. Can this be done?

Thanks for your advice and insight!

Cheers!

Detecting A Click On An Html Link In A Text Field
If you have an href link within an html text field in Flash, is there any way of detecting when the user clicks on it?

Not being a standard button, you obviously can't do:

ActionScript Code:
on (press)
{
doStuff();
}

But is there another way?

Cheers.

[mx] Html Text Link To Call As Inside Flash
hey,

I am working on a press section of a site and was wondering if this was possible? I have a texfield that loads in html formatted text for a notepad file. I have done this lots of times and put <a href=blah> on certain words within notepad to make them links to other pages.

For this one i would like to have the textfield with links, but when the user clicks a link, i want it to trigger something in flash (i.e. click here for more info sending a variable to my main as script that will bring up some other text etc).

is this possible? if so how would i go about writing the link inside notepad? I'm thinking that i just need to know the code for combining the text links with something in flash as.

any help is greatly appreciated.

cheers,

kd

Loading Text + Html Link Into Flash Btns From XML
Hi Flash people!

I am doing a Flash header where button text and links has to be easily configured by the owner, so i'm thinking the smartest way is to load button text + link from an xml file.

There will be 7 horizontal buttons. The name of the button will be loaded into a dynamic textfield i guess, but what about the link?

Im fairly sure it's possible to make an animated button and load an html link into it's Actionscript... but how?

My XML would look like this:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><buttonsDanish>
<forside name= "Forside" url= "http://www.whatever.biz" />
<kurv name= "Kurv" url= "http://www.whatever.biz" />
<afslutkøb name= "Afslut Køb" url= "http://www.whatever.biz" />
<nyheder name= "Nyheder" url= "http://www.whatever.biz" />
<tilbud name= "Tilbud" url= "http://www.whatever.biz" />
<vilkår name= "Vilkår" url= "http://www.whatever.biz" />
<kontakt name= "Kontakt" url= "http://www.whatever.biz" />
</buttonsDanish>
How to load this into separate buttons?

I really hope you can help me out

Thank you in advance

Actionscript Initiated From A Html Link In A Text Field
The title says it all really. I'm looking to find out if there is any way of setting up a hyperlink in my text field that will initiate an actionscript command.

Any thoughts appreciated, even if it's a work around.

HELP: My .swf File Shows Up Blank On My .html
I'm trying to place a flash .swf on my .html web page but it shows up blank and doesn't load, whereas when I switch the movie for any other movie I made beside the two in question, they show up just fine, perfect, even. Can someone please explain this reaction.. MAYBE MY MOVIES AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR DREAMWEAVER!@#
maybe not.

Alpha Set To 0 Yet Still Shows In HTML File
Hi! I'm stumped and was hoping somone could help. I'm creating a Flash movie and have set the alpha of a few images to 0 yet they still show when I export them to a swf file and try to view them in HTML file. I have done this several times before and have never had this problem!

Please help me from pulling out my hair!!!

How To Goto A Frame Using A Text Field HTML Anchor Tag Link?
Does anyone know how to goto a frame using a dynamic text field HTML anchor tag link?

for example, the dynamic HTML text field variable might look something like this:

boxText = "jump to <A HREF=" someMClabel "> clip link </A>";

Below is all the documentation i could find, but it only covers links to external pages:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...s/htmltext.htm

any help is very appreciated!

peace,
dan

Combining ASP, HTML Link, And Flash Dynamic Text Variables
Ok, I have been messing with Flash since 3. But have just been making simple movies. My clients never had a great need for a flash site. But times have changed....

Anyways, learning Flash 5 now and have a need to figure something out for a client. ANy help would be appreciated.

I am going to be designing a page that shares a flash file right down the center. The text will be in a flash (text) box and will zoom in and out as links are clicked and pages change. The issue I am trying to resolve is allowing the same movie (text box zooming) to replay over and over again, each time a link in the HTML/javascript area is clicked. The key is that the text within the flash changes based on the variable I pass through the link. The fun part is that the flash text area will be called via ASP.

Confused?

I mean it should be pretty straight forward. I just need to figure out how to pass the variable from the link to the flash movie dynamic text action. So it knows what ASP page to call. But since I am not that familiar with how Flash 5 and actionscript works, I figured I would go to the ones who do.

I really don't want to have to load a movie over and over again based on the page I am calling. That defeats the whole point of being a dynamic site... right?

I appreciate any help.

Brian

Html Text Field Links- Link To A Frame In A Movieclip?
is it possible to link to a frame label using a link in an html rendered text box?

HTML Link In Dynamic Text Field Not Working In Browser
Hey guys,

I'm having a weird problem when I create a link using the <a> tag in a dynamic text field. The link works perfectly fine when testing in Flash but does not work when flash in the browser (the rollover CSS does not work either). Hopefully someone has some experience with this.

This is AS2 by the way.

IE5/Mac Shows HTML Tags For 'device Fonts'
Are some fonts always aliased? (I thought that was why some fonts were designed to begin with.)

I just discovered that text assigned the 'Use Device Fonts' property displays as 'marked-up' text in IE5/Mac.
For example:
< ALIGN = "CENTER" > Title < / ALIGN >
instead of just Title

I have used Verdana primarily with the 'device font' property - which makes for a sharp character at 10-12px. Anti-aliased, however, it appears blurred (nothing new here, have heard it before, but...)

Have read a couple of FK threads, and looked at the Macromedia article Using fonts in Flash 5 and later, but still wonder: Are some fonts always aliased by default, regardless of the properties assigned as Text Options (static vs. dynamic vs. input)?

Html Formattig With CDATA When NodeValue Shows XML?
Hi all!

I've been looking around the forums and this question seems to have been asked 100 times before. I think I have a slight twist on it though...

I am loading an xml document into Flash (exporting for player v6, AS1) and want HTML formatting in my dynamic HTML text fields. I've got CDATA there and using eg childNodes[i].chldNodes the text renders the tags and everything. If i use childNodes[i].nodeValue, the text field remains empty.

When I trace the nodeValue is comes out as 'null' and the nodeType is shown to be type 1 - element_node.

So the (for me) 1 000 000 000 kronor question is: am i missing something that defines a text node?

Here's an extract from the XML:

Code:
<page>
<name>Arbetsskada</name>
<avtalText>Som arbetsgivare är du skyldig att göra en anmälan till försäkringskassan.</avtalText>
<header>På blanketterna till försäkringskassan och till AFA ska du som arbetsgivare endast intyga anställningsförhållandena, inte bedöma om det föreligger

arbetsskada, eller ej. Utredningen och ställningstagandet görs av försäkringskassan och AFA men underlättas av din redogörelse. </header>
<pic>arbetsskada.jpg</pic>
<contents>
<subHead>
<name>Den skadade anmäler</name>
<cont><![CDATA[Den skadade ska anmäla arbetsskadan till:
<li>Arbetsgivaren</li>
<li>AFA - på blankett aLink2</li>]]></cont>
<pic>skadAnmal.jpg</pic>
</subHead>
<subHead>
<name>Arbetsgivaren anmäler</name>
<cont>Som arbetsgivare ska du:
- Anmäla arbetsskadan till försäkringskassan. Försäkringskassan tillhandahåller blankett, du hittar den också här: aLink1.
- Du ska också komplettera blanketten aLink2, som den anställde fyllt i, med hans/hennes anställningsuppgifter och sedan underteckna den. Den ska sedan skickas till

AFA. </cont>
<pic>arbGiv2Sub.jpg</pic>
</subHead>
</contents>
</page>
All wise words greatly appreciated!

samiam

Flv Skin Only Shows When Previewing Html Locally
When I import FLV into a flash file then publish to HTML, I have no problem seeing the video (WITH skin controls) in a browser but only when opening the html file directly (ie: double clicking html file in windows explorer). But when I view the html through our file system http:/etc etc (running an apache server) the video plays but there are no controls. I'm guessing something is filtering the controls out for some reason? If so how do I get around this? I've tried using the preset skins and also uploading skin to our server and using an http path, doesn't help.

The bigger picture is that I want video to play in our web pages, without the "click to activate" thing and also so our javascript navigation flyouts display over top of the flash (not beneath). I can get all these things to work for *normal* swf/html files but not flash video. It seems to be a completely different beast... Thought I'd mention this too, as solving the skin problem is just one obstacle on the way to solving this wider objective.

HtmlText Issue-shows Html Tags On Render
Im experiencing problems with the following similar problem.

the textfield (adviceText) renders my html string with the html tags, so it isnt picking them up!
this is the code that doesnt work...
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adviceText.html=true;
adviceText.autoSize = rue;
adviceText.htmlText =_parent["player"+pressed].theAdvice;
--------------------------------------

now the variable is correct and is a string i cant see a problem with. it comes from a hard coded (for now) xml file within a CDATA tag to allow the html tags to be ignored during the xml parse.

if i set the string in the flash document the text field will render correctly i.e.
---------------------------------------
adviceText.htmlText ="test<br>test";
---------------------------------------

im desperate for ideas, the above line of code if substitued works correctly so im assuming that means the text field is set up correct.

thanks

How Can I Solve This Problem? - Html, Embed, Call Function From Flash Text Link
I am not sure if there is a way to do this or not, but here is the scenario.

I have a flash object embedded in an html page like so:

Code:
</head>
<body leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0" topmargin="0" bottommargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
<div id="inbody">
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="850" height="650" id="main" align="middle" hspace="0" vspace="0">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="flash.swf?thePage=?uniq=" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />

<param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFFF" />
<embed src="flash.swf?thePage=" quality="high" bgcolor="#FFFFFFF" width="850" height="650" name="main" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" hspace="0" vspace="0"scale="noborder" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
Pretty straight forward so far.

I have several text areas that contain HTML in the flash.swf.

Some of these text areas contain <a href> links which I want to link to a function in my flash.swf rather than the behavior associated with a conventional getURL("http://www.A_Link.com").

Is there a way, perhaps with Javascript or PHP to invoke a function via an <a href> link in the already loaded flash.swf rather than re-loading the html and flash.swf file?

Bottom line, I am trying to invoke a function in the flash file via a <a href> link in the html text area without re-loading the flash file.

Is it possible?

Kracko