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Help When Scrolling The Text Is Highlighted.
http://www.amarillodj.com/

First page called "Home" I have scrolling text. When I move the scroll bar it highlites the text.

I used the Developement Panels --> Components --> TextArea Component to create this text area.

Seems that this is only happening when I have this text area in an externaly loaded swf.

I have a main movie that loads external swf files.

In my external swf files I use the text area component to display the text. The text is loaded dynamically from an external xml file. So it all looks like this:

main.swf --> external.swf --> text.xml

When I view the text in the external.swf it is fine. But when I see it from my main movie it gets highlighted.

http://www.amarillodj.com/

I use flash MX 2004 Pro

Problem: Highlighted Textarea
Anybody! Using 2004 pro, with a textarea.
Loading an external ..swf with .xml.
Looks good on pre load

Problem On site:
When you use the scrollbar, It highlights all the text, then goes to the end of text.
If you use the mouse wheel it works fine.

Anyone know of a fix?

How To Show Text Highlighted
I create a Static Text in FlashMX2004 and make it selectable. When i try to select and copy, actually it copies and selectable but not shows as selected. Please tell me how to show the text highlighted when selected.

Menu - Need Location Highlighted
Hi, I'd like to keep the last clicked menu link highlighted. I'm not sure how complicated it will be.
I'd really appreciate any help I can get since I don't know how to write a script to make this happen (if it does need a script).

the url where I downloaded it, is here.

Arrow That Goes To Highlighted Button?
Hey everyone!

I am currently making a new site.. and admittedly it has been a long time since I've used flash again. But either way..

I am working ont eh navigation, and am wanting to have an arrow underneatht eh home button, then when I go over another button on the navigation teh arrow smoothly glides over underneath that one, and stays under it until I highlight another button, then it moves to the new one.

I hope this is at all understnadable, and ANY help would be amazing.

Thanks in advance for any information -

Keeping Selection Highlighted?
Hi,

i have a problem, hope some of you have some ideas. I am building a HTML site with a flash menu.

What I'd like it to do, is keep the button highlighted, whichever page is selected.

So if the menu reads: Home AboutUS ContactUS FAQ

and if you navigate though the site, the corresponding button remains highlighted. SO if you are on the FAQs page, the faqs menu button remains highlighted, or if you are on the AboutUS page, the AboutUS button remains highlighted. etc

Can this be done perhaps with a variable in the object tag?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks guyS!

Dynamic Text Gets Highlighted
i've got a game in which the launcher is controlled by the mouse and various dynamic text boxes (reported score, level, etc.) are in the background of the field of play.

the problem is that, as the player mouses over these boxes at the same time that the mouse is clicked to fire a projectile, the dynamic text at that location gets highlighted as if i were going to copy and paste it.

any ideas?

When Scrolling The Text Is Highlighted...Doh
http://www.amarillodj.com/

First page called "Home" I have scrolling text. When I move the scroll bar it highlites the text.

I used the Developement Panels --> Components --> TextArea Component to create this text area.

XML Nav Item Stays Highlighted?
Hello --

Have been incorporating XML data into applications for a while now... have now begun using it for medium to large navigation lists.

While I can do any method of horizontal, clamshell, expandable, motion-based navigation etc I have a strange problem overall... I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to code a smart function that will check which nav item was clicked and keep it highlighted until another one is clicked... then that one would highlight and all of the others would be un-highlighted.

I can do rollOvers using references to XML array generated items. BUT-- the smart checker is something I cannot figure out... any ideas out there. Must be simple.

Thanks in advance for any help... I really would appreciate it.

// vagabond007

Button Stays Highlighted
How do I create a button that when it's clicked it stays highlighted? I understand how to make the rollover effect and how to make a MC-Button.

Can someone show me or lead me in the right direction?

Thanks

Menu Being Highlighted On Particular Site
Hey Folks,

I have built some basic menu for the website using flash, and now I am in need of attaching some menu-behaviour here, but I have no clue where to start and what to do.

There are four choices in this menu, with rollovers (button's 'up' state), and I would like to keep this second state from the start, only when movie loads, on particular site, if this is About Us, I would like the tab 'about us' being in second state, if this is Contact, I would like tab 'contact' to be highlighted and so on.

This menu is located here: http://www.nectarmarketing.com/nm

I did such a thing with HTML and PHP, with simple IF condition, but I don't know how to apply same functionality to Flash movie.

What I did for another project was simple:
If the menu had 'children' choices, say 'about us' had 3 or more submenus, I attached a variable called $site='about' to each of those pages, then checked with IF, which var $site was on, and depends on it, 'About Us' was displayed with second state button.

I don't know much about Flash action scripting, but I guess something similar could be applied here.

I was wondering if someone could give me some hint.
Thank you!

Gee

Scrolling The Text Is Highlighted
http://www.amarillodj.com/

First page called "Home" I have scrolling text. When I move the scroll bar it highlites the text.

I used the Developement Panels --> Components --> TextArea Component to create this text area.

Seems that this is only happening when I have this text area in an externaly loaded swf.

I have a main movie that loads external swf files.

In my external swf files I use the text area component to display the text. The text is loaded dynamically from an external xml file. So it all looks like this:

main.swf --> external.swf --> text.xml

When I view the text in the external.swf it is fine. But when I see it from my main movie it gets highlighted.

Leave Button Highlighted After Press?
I'd like to know how it's possible to leave a button highlighted (freeze in down frame), after pressed it.

Many thanks
manner

Leave Button Highlighted After Pressed
I'd like to know how it's possible to leave a button highlighted (freeze in down frame), after pressed it.

Many thanks
manner

Keyboard Tab Control For Next Highlighted Element
Hi,

I want to control the tab function from keyboard to jump in a sequence that I want. i.e. When I press the TAB key from the keyboard I want it to be read by screenreader in the order of my preference.

Please Help ASAP

Evaluate What Text A User Has Highlighted
Here's my task. I have Flash MX to use..

I need to have a text box that contains a block of text. The instructions to the user are to select (highlight) a section of that text and copy it.

So the instructions would be:

From the text box containing:
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

Highlight and copy the text "brown fox"

How do I evaluate the text that the user has selected to make sure it's the correct text?

[F8] Button Doesn't Stay Highlighted.
Hi there,

i'm trying to adapt this file to use as a nav bar. It all works ok, the bttons go to the correct page but the button doesn't remain highlighted (in its over state). It changes when rolled over but it should stay highlighted when on the specific page.

I know its a long shot but i'd love for somebody to take a look and tell me where i'm going wrong.

Many thanks.

D

Text Selection Not Staying Highlighted
Hi

I've set my input text box to be selectable using

Code:
mytextfieldname.selectable = true;
It works just fine until I go to change the mask colours in the input box.

Once the colour changes, the text is still selectable and it's fully functional.

However, the selected text is no longer highlighted so even when the user clicks inside the input box, or selects some existing text, it's impossible to tell what has been selected or where the text cursor is inserted until they start typing.

I've attached a stripped down FLA.
Any clues would be appreciated.

thanks!

(my version: Flash MX)

Highlight On Select, Then Stay Highlighted
Hello,

I have some action script that creates a blocks of text and when you hover over it highlights and when you select a block the block highlights. The problem I am having is when you de-select one block and select another block the previously selected block goes back to it's original state. So basically, what I am wanting to do is keep blocks highlighted once selected, even after you de-select and select another block. Hope this makes sense! My current code is attached

Attach Code

package rubric {

import flash.text.*;
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;

//This class is one selectable box in a table. It is extended by the RubricBox and FollowUpBox classes for
//the rubric and 'Recommended Follow Up' tables, respectively. The only difference in these classes is the
//datatype of the value each is worth, and sends up to be saved when it is selected (number vs. string).
internal class TableBox extends Sprite {
//VARIABLES
private var boxTxt:TextField;
private var boxFill:Sprite;
private var boxHite:Number;
private var boxWidth:Number;

//CONSTRUCTOR
public function TableBox (txt:String, wideness:Number) {
boxWidth = wideness;

boxTxt = new TextField();
boxTxt.width = boxWidth-10;
boxTxt.x = 5;
boxTxt.y = 5;
boxTxt.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
boxTxt.wordWrap = true;
boxTxt.mouseEnabled = false;

var txtFmat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
txtFmat.font = "Arial";
txtFmat.size = 11;

boxTxt.htmlText = txt;
boxTxt.setTextFormat(txtFmat);

addChild(boxTxt);
}

//RubricRow checks its RubricBox children to see which is the tallest, then sends down the height
//all boxes should be. This function uses that value to create the box's fill.
internal function createFill (hite:Number) {
boxHite = hite;
boxFill = new Sprite();
drawFill();

addChildAt(boxFill,0);

addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, rolloverListnr);
addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, rolloutListnr);
}

private function drawFill (fill:String="reg") {
var farb:uint;
if (fill == "reg") {
farb = 0xFFFFFF;
}else if (fill == "over") {
farb = 0xB0F1FF;
}else {
farb = 0xFFFFB0;
}
boxFill.graphics.beginFill(farb);
boxFill.graphics.lineStyle(1);
boxFill.graphics.drawRect(0,0,boxWidth,boxHite);
}

private function rolloverListnr (e:MouseEvent) {
drawFill("over");
}

private function rolloutListnr (e:MouseEvent) {
drawFill();
}

internal function select ():void {
removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, rolloverListnr);
removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, rolloutListnr);
drawFill("select");
}

internal function deselect ():void {
addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, rolloverListnr);
addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, rolloutListnr);
drawFill();
}

}
}

Squared Spotlighteffect / How To Make An Area Highlighted ?
I have a Movie with scrolling symbols (16 of them in a horiz row) and stage size is 500 pixl. The middle is therefore at 250. Now my pics/symbols are 120 pixl wide. Now, my symbols scrolls right or left and I want just the one in the middle to be 100% visible whilst the other around it to be darker/toned down.

This will mean that , according from stagesize, that area 190 - 310 should be normal visible while 0-190 and 310-500 should be darker if you follow my thoughts. How to solve that.. I tried some mask layers - 2 of them 1 area with 100% alpha and 2 other areas with alpha 60%. Disdnt work so PLEASE PLEASE tell me how to do m8:s !!

How Can A Button Remain Highlighted On New HTML Page?
Hello!
I am using Flash MX and am new to action script. My problem is that I'd like to have a menu so that when a user clicks on a button, the button remains highlighted on the uploaded HTML page. I was told that you can do this with variables, but I'm not sure how. Could someone provide me a sample script, perhaps even a .fla file to show me exactly how this would work? I really appreciate your help!

Top-nav: Keeping Buttons Highlighted When Changing Pages
Hi,

I've created a TopNav file that will serve as the primary navigation for a site. The thing is, if I send the on-release of a button to a "contact.html" page, when that page reloads it'd be great if the contact button was still highlighted or in it's "over" state after the cached flash navigation file reloads.

What do you think? Is there a step-by-step way to do this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best,

= F

How To Show Button In Highlighted State After It Is Clicked?
I want to be able to show that a button is sort of highlighted to show that user is in that particular section. That highlighted state of the button should remain that way untill the user clicks on a different button. I don't think the 'up' over' 'down' and 'hit' states offer this functionality, so how can I achieve this?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Button Remains Highlighted After External Mc Is Loaded?
Hi, I've got a couple of questions...

I've created a menu system that loads external .swf files and was wondering if it was possible to have a menu item remain highlighted after you've clicked on it? I attached the .fla files so you can see what I mean.

The items load nicely, but I'd like the sub menu eg "Company" to remain grey after you've clicked on it, until you click on a different subsection.

Oh yeah my second problem is that the first external swf loads automatically. Is it possible to make it so the page starts blank with just the three menu items?

Again if anyone has any ideas, they'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Button Remain Highlighted -- Like Radio Buttons
I'd like to create a button group or navigation where one button stays highlighted until another is hit. For example all the buttons are gray, when you roll over them they're green. When you hit one it's red and remains red until another button in the group is hit. etc. -- like a radio button.

I could do this with a timeline, but it's pretty cumbersome especially when you've got 8 or so buttons in the group. Thanks

Mx04:moving A Rollover To The Top Level When Its Highlighted?
Hi just wondering if there was a way to make this rollover i have created jump to the top when you roll over it!? At the moment the information described with each button hides under other buttons on the page. What i'd like is when each is selected/rolled over they become the dominant/top button, so no information is hidden by the others...probably a little clearer when you see the .fla

Thanks for any help!!?

[CS3] Buton On Phone To Control HIGHLIGHTED SELECTION?
Hello all,

I havent used flash for ages but ill give it a shot to make some sense to you guys.

Basically i have an interface of a mobile phone and a flash game inside it... what i need is to create UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT buttons on the circular mobile phone arrow button. it doesnt matter what the buttons look like or if they are even invisible, all i want the buttons to do is that when you press DOWN- the selection (a red transparent box) on the game jumps down. when you press right it jumps right.. and so on....

is this VERY complicated?

I've seen tutorials on how to control a movieclip (like a spaceship) with arrow buttons and make it move left right and spin as well, but what Im looking for is more of a JUMP... the way selection jumps from one box/option to another on a mobile phone when you click the arrows...

sorry for being a bit clueless about this..

cheers in advance guys!!

dave.

Question, How Do I Make The Button Stay Highlighted?
I am trying to make a button stay at the "on rollover" effects until the next button is clicked. To be more specific, it's a list of Q and A. I need have the Q highlighted when the A is displayed until the next Q is clicked. How do I do that? Thanks in advance.

Box Around Dynamic Textarea Gets Highlighted When Link Is Clicked On
ok, i have a dynamic textarea where i'm loading in some html with "new XML()" and then "load(thehtml.html)"...

now, that html has some links in it... and when i click on any of them, they open a new window with the link, just like they should, but the textarea itself becomes highlighted... is there any way to get rid of that?

i'm already using "textloadarea.label.selectable = false;" but the text itself is fine, it's just a box that appears around the whole textarea when any link is clicked on...

any ideas?

Highlighted Default Item In List Component?
I can't seem to find how to have an item in a list component highlighted by default. I'm sure its right there in the docs staring me down, but I dont see it.

I've found scrollToIndex method, but that doesnt seem to actually highlight the index item. How do I highlight an index item in a list in as3?

Thanks,
Matt

Onclick Stay Highlighted Flash Button
I have developed a flash navigation for a particular web site. I created the button effect using a movie clip and some flash action script. The script I used for the buttons was something like below and adjusted to suit eaach button, five in total.

ActionScript Code:
buttonOne.onRollOver = function() { OK1 = true;};buttonOne.onRollOut = function() { OK1 = false;};effectOne.onEnterFrame = function() { if (OK1) { effectOne.nextFrame(); } else { effectOne.prevFrame(); }};

The script works great. However I need to button highlighted when say the user is on home. And then when the user click the next button find out more, I wish for that button then to remain highlighted. My action script knowledge is very limited, so I would appreciate any directions people can shed light on.

If anyone can help please add your recomendations to this thread. Thanks

Trevor Saint

How To Make A Highlighted Button When Loaded A Particular Page?
Hello guys,

I have a question after reading and successfully follow this tutorial

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/transitions.htm

But i would like to make additional animation for the navigation base on the tutorial.

How do i make an highlight button ,after load a particular page?
For example when loaded page section 2, the button will will highlight the "section 2" button on the navigation.

Any help and guide will be really appreciate.
Thanks

How Do I Make A Link Stay Highlighted When Its Clicked
Hi,

This is a relatively simple question but i am quite annoyed not to have been able to figure this out.

I have 4 buttons - About Us, Products... etc.

I want a mouse over so that when i mouse over the About Us text, the text changes color and when i MouseOut, it goes back to the original color.

Also when the link is clicked and the page loads, I would like the link to stay highlighted so that the visitor knows which page he/she is on.

I have tried using movieclip with mouseover, mouseout states in individual keyframes. My actionscript states that on(press) gotoAndStop(mouseover) so that the link stays highlighted when the page loads but I also have an on(rollOut) which states that when I rolloff the link, the color should change back to the normal state. So how do i get this to work?

Thanks,
vazash.

Styling A Combobox Dropdown Text When Highlighted
Hi!
I need to change the rollover color of the combobox's dropdown using AS3.

Code:

var textf:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
textf.font = "Arial";
textf.size = 11;
textf.color = 0xFFFFFF;
textf.bold = false;

drpCars.setStyle('themeColor', HighlightRenderer);
I've tried loads of different solutions, however the closest i got was to change the whole dropdown when rolled over by using a custom cell renderer. Is it possible to identify and modify the rendering of the currently highlighted dropdown option?

Any help would be greatly appriciated,
Cheers

Button Remains Highlighted -- Like Radio Buttons
I'd like to create a button group or navigation where one button stays highlighted until another is hit. For example, all the buttons are gray, when you roll over them they're green. When you hit one it's red and remains red until another button in the group is hit. etc. -- like a radio button.

I'm new to actionscript. I could do this with a timeline, but it's pretty cumbersome especially when you've got 8 or so buttons in the group.

Making A Button Highlighted After Loading Page
So I have been asked to edit a TM template and I'm having lots of fun.

I know flash a bit but apparently not enough.

Right now I got the buttons going to the correct page (hybrid site) but no matter what button is click on, only the first button becomes highlighted (button becomes unclickable too).

Here is the AS on a button:

Code:
on (release) {
if (_root.link<>2 and _root.flag == 1) {
_root["item"+_root.link].gotoAndPlay("s2");
_root.link = 2;
_root.flag = 0;
_root.pgap.play();
getURL("http://www.zzzz.com/zz.html");
}

Code:
item1.gotoAndPlay("s1");
That triggers what happens to the button but I'm not sure how to change that so it will highlight what button is clicked not just the first one all the time.

Did that make sense?

Good Way To Setup Nav Menu... Active Section Highlighted.
Hey all!
I'm trying to figure out a way to have a series of buttons that when one is clicked, a movieclip plays (say an alpha value changes), but for all the other movieclips, the alpha is set to the opposite... so which ever section is active, has a visible movieclip below the button. (I hope that makes sense). Basically, I'm stuck on setting up code where when a button is clicked, a movieclip has it's alpha fade up to 100%, and a few other movieclips have their alphas fade to 0% (assuming they aren't there already). Can anyone help me out? thanks!

Help Identifying The Highlighted Word When Creating A URL Within An Input Text Box
i am building a text editor with various function like (bullet, bold, italics, etc.. ) i also built the URL functionality as well. When the user selects text and clicks a URL-Button, the code under (btn_URL) excutes and calls my ascript function as defined. The problem is that i want to trap and send the selected word as a parameter (the word that gets the anchor "&lta href'...'&gtthis word&lt/a&gt" tag??? any help is appreciated...

i have a mc with a input text box set for HTML with a button that will wrap the given text in an anchor

mc with 1st frame ascript(sets up the listener object to get the selected text)

//---the code---

//////////////////////////////////////
//asfunction capturs the sent params
function launchURL(param1) {
trace ("param1 " + param1);
}

/////////////////////////////////////
//sets up the listener object
var selectListener = new Object();
selectListener.onSetFocus = function(oldFocus, newFocus) {
if (oldFocus == _level0.mcExamPageHolder.mcPageProperties.txtPageB ody) {
Selection.setSelection(iBegSel,iEndSel);
lastBegin = iBegSel;
lastEnd = iEndSel;
}
Selection.addListener(selectListener);

_root.onEnterFrame = function(){
getSelection();
}

function getSelection(){
iBegSel = Selection.getBeginIndex();
iEndSel = Selection.getEndIndex();
if (iBegSel == -1 && iEndSel == -1) {
iBegSel = lastBegin;
iEndSel = lastEnd;
}
}

//the ascript behind the button (btn_URL)

/////////////////////////////////////////////
//button to create a URL link on selected text
on (release) {
var tf = new TextFormat();
tf.target = "_blank";
tf.underline = true;
tf.color = 0x0000FF;
tf.url = "asfunction:launchURL, 'param1, param2'"
txtPageBody.setTextFormat(iBegSel, iEndSel, tf);
}

How Can I Make A Flash Button Remain Highlighted When Selected?
I am using Flash MX and would like to know how to make a Flash button remain highlighted on the HTML page that pops up after it is clicked. An example of this is on the Tiger Woods website, www.tigerwoods.com. When you click one of the menu buttons, the button remains highlighted on the page that uploads. Any advice appreciated!

Thanks

Changing Combo Box Highlighted Label On Movie Clip Release...
Hi,
I have a combobox and 4 movie clips.The names of the 4 movie clips are Mango,Orange,Grapes,Melon.I have 4 labels in the Combo box called Mango,Orange,Grapes,Melon.The data for the combo box is mango, orange,grapes,melon respectively.Now when i click and Release these movie clips,i want the combo box to highlight the clicked movie clip label.I have provided the Labels and the data for the combo box by using the Properties Inspector and NOT BY using the actionscript.

For example,if i clicked the Mango movie clip,i want the Mango label to be highlighted.If i click on the Orange movie clip, I want the Orange label to be highlighted.If i click on the Grapes movie clip, I want the Grapes label to be highlighted and If i click on the Melon movie clip, I want the Melon label to be highlighted.

I would greatly appreciate it if anyone can help me with this problem.Thanks in advance.

Datagrid And Row Highlighted

How do I highlight a row in a datagrid programatcally (Flash MX) without clicking on a field of that row?Raymond

How do I highlight a row in a datagrid programatcally (Flash MX) without clicking on a field of that row?
Raymond