Flash :: Dynamic XML Text And HTML Tags And Link/button Problems (probably .root Problems)

Dynamic XML Text And HTML Tags And Link/button Problems (probably .root Problems)
Ok two problems -

1) I have dynamic text fields that display text from an XML page - however I need to use the html tags that are within the text (so that the text is formatted correctly). However when I use the "render text as html" button the text is not displayed (but is loaded I think as I used a trace to test this). Is this something to do with teh "<" characters perhaps?

2) I have a menu that resides on the root of my movie (I load external .swfs into a container in this index movie) The buttons work fine when I try the site on my local machine - however when I load them up to my server they stop working. I tried changing the urls of what the buttons load to teh absolute paths on the server but this didn't help. Can someone check this for me cos I think its something stupidly simple.

Heres teh various files:
Main.fla - (the main index movie)

News.fla - (the page with teh dynamic textfields and the movie that automatically loads into teh main movie)

Bios.fla - (so that you can test the buttons out - obviously only the bios button will work when you publish it locally but all the buttons do essentially teh same thing)

If you publish these files locally you should see the first problem. Go to The Aviators to see difference with the buttons compared to locally loaded .swfs.

Cheers!
Gord_82

Dynamic Html Link Tags To Control Loading Of External Swf Into Main Movie.
Sorry about the long, long title but I thought I better put it all there just in case some can solve this problem and other can dfind it easier.

Ok... Here we go:

1.- First :: I have a main movie which dinamicaly loads external swf files.

2.- second :: some of those external files contain dynamic html with css formating.

3.- third :: my problem comes here where I want a <a> tag to load a new external swf into the main movie.

Any ideas... have been seaching for days and can´t seem to find any info!!!

Please help,

acegogo

Dynamic Html Link Tags To Control Loading Of External Swf Into Main Movie
Sorry about the long title but I thought I better put it all there just in case some can solve this problem and other can find it easier.

1.- First :: I have a main movie which dinamicaly loads external swf files.

2.- second :: some of those external files contain dynamic html (.txt-files)

3.- third :: my problem comes here where I want a <a> tag to load a new external swf into the main movie.

Any ideas?

Please help,

Kejsaren

[MX04] HTML Tags Needs To Be Disabled In Dynamic Html Enabled Text Fields
Hi Buddies,

Am loading some dynamic text from an xml which has html tags inside dat text. I jus loading dat specified texts into a dynamic text fields where html is enabled and assisgned as a htmlText instead of normal text.

It works fine, but the thing is, i want to disable certain html tags to be rendered but it shud display as it is as a normal texts.
Is there any way to do dat

HTML Tags In A Dynamic Text Box...
According to flash, i can put HTML tags (HREF, Bold, etc...) in a text file that is being loaded into a movie, and have the html text formats work inside of the flash text box. I have checked the HTML box in the dynamic text popup, but when i add the html tags, the text within the tags disappears when the file is loaded into flash. what am i doing wrong?

HTML Tags In Dynamic Text
I pasted HTML code in to a dynamic text box in KoolMoves.
It only recognizes <A>.
Is there a way to get it to recognize all the other tags?

Dynamic Text Box And HTML Tags
Hi there!

I'm trying to show text in a dynamic text box, with HTML tags like b, font and so on. Problem is that font tags are recognized, but bold and italic ones just dissapear! What's happening with my bold and italic?? Does somebothy have similar problems or is it a Flash-Crash?

Thanks for your help,

Fery

Html Tags In Dynamic Text
Hello Im using flash mx 2004:

Script im using

Code:
stop();
LoadVarsText = new LoadVars();
LoadVarsText.load("two.txt");
//assign a function which fires when the data is loaded:
LoadVarsText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
trace("done loading");
//Now that we know the data is loaded,
//set the text content of the Text Field
//with the instance name "scroller" equal to the
//contents of the variable
scroller.text = this.var1;
} else {
trace("not loaded");
}
};

The text loads fine and I have the "Render text as HTML" option selected however is not recognizing my tags. text that should look bold looks bold

Any guesses ? Thanks in advance

Bill

HTML Tags In Dynamic Text
I am planning on building a website in flash with 90 percent of the site in dynamic text. Will flash read the html tags in a text file as text or html and code it as a browser would.

Html Tags For Dynamic Text?
I use a lot of dynamic text but I have no idea about html tags to make text bold or different sizes or colours.

can any post a help website or give me some pointers?

HTML Tags Do Not Work In Dynamic Text
Got one small problem with Flash MX: I try loading rich formatted text into a dynamic text field from an external file. Text without any tags is diplayed properly, but tagged text (f.e. like this) just does not appear. HTML rendering is set in the object properties, so it should work, but ist doesn't. Anybody has an idea?

Using HTML Tags In A Dynamic Text Field
Sorry for having to ask this seemingly "frequently asked question" but I am never able to search for some reason. It doesn't work.

Anyways, I have a dynamic textfield that I've loaded an external .txt field into. My question is real simple: How do I make certain words bold with html? I'm a newbie...so please explain in idiot's terms.

Thank you all.

[F8] Can Dynamic Text Fields Use Html Img Tags
i am trying to display images inside a text field which flash is reading from and xml file generated from queries ran on a mysql db. the images are showing up after the queries have ran and the paths to the files are correct.

when the xml is parsed by flash where the images are supposed to be i get null written. is it possible for this to be done?

HTML Tags For Dynamic Text Field
I have a scrolling dynamic text field for a site I am developing, but I need more control on different words in the paragraph (to change color and or positioning). I think this is possible to do with HTML tags, but I cannot get them to work. Do they go in the actual dynamic text field paragraph? In scripts?

Can sombody help me figure this out? I simply want to change the color of some of the words in the dynamic text field.

Thanks

Loading Dynamic Text W/ Html Tags
Hi,

I'm sort of new to flash and have a HUGE question to which I'm hoping to find a clear answer.

I want to know what the best way is to dynamically load text from an external file into a flash movie. I am using Flash MX 2004. The text will contain basic HTML tags, such as font, bold, and italics. It will also contain img tags, as I want to include jpgs throught the text.

I've been thru the creation of dynamic text boxes, which load the text file... using the scrollpane component.. plus a multitude of other ways, but none have given me the outcome that I want.

Can someone please tell me the best way to do this? It seems like it's such a complicated feat for something that, functionality wise, alot of people would want to do.

Closing Html Tags On Dynamic Text
Came upon an interesting issue today. i'm loading dynamic text from a textfile with some HTML tags in it. When I load it up, everything comes up fine except for the fact that any <a> tags remain active until the next <a> tag comes up. So there will be a whole block of text with a hand cursor that links to the previous <a> tag. Anyone else had this problem... or am I just doing something wrong?

Loading Dynamic Text, Using HTML Tags
I would like to load an external .txt file into flash. I would also like the text to contain HTML formatting, ie. <a> <li> etc. Here's an example of what I'm currently trying:

In the .txt file, I have the following:
&header=Here is my header
&one=This is where the first set of text would go
&two=This is where the second set of text would go, with a <a href="http://www.kirupaforum.com">link</a> right here.
---------------

In the .fla file, I have three dynamic text fields with "Render text as HTML" selected. In a movie clip on the main timeline, I have the following actionscript:

var mainVars = new LoadVars();
mainVars.onLoad = function(loaded) {
if(loaded) {
_parent.contentText.heading.text = this.heading;
_parent.contentText.theText1.text = this.one;
_parent.contentText.theText2.text = this.two;
for(items in this) {
trace("item: "+items);
}
}
else {
trace("Nope, didn't work");
}
}
mainVars.load("text/productsText.txt");
stop();

When I preview the movie, the text fields come up as undefined. I could use some help!

Dynamic Text Field Html Tags
Hello!

Issue: dynamic textfield created at runtime with html text doesn't display bold and italics.

Having the Font symbol in my library with the linkage name "Avenir" :

tf = this.createTextField('t', 0, 0, 0, 100, 300);
tf.html = true;
tf.multiline = true;
tf.wordWrap = true;
tf.autoSize = true;
tf.selectable = false;
tf.embedFonts = true;
txtFormat = new TextFormat();
txtFormat.font = "Avenir";
txtFormat.leading = 2;
txtFormat.color = 0xFFFFFF;
txtFormat.size = 12;

tf.htmlText = "bla bla"
tf.setTextFormat(txtFormat);

The textfield totally ignores the bold html tag. The right font is displayed but the html tags are ignored. So if I want one text field to be able to dynamically display bold and italics (html text) using a Font Face in my library...how do I do it? What am I missing?

Thanks!

Apply HTML Tags To Dynamic Text From XML
Hi guys,
Hoping one of you can help me understand how to apply HTML formatting to dynamic text sourced from an XML doc.
I've looked online but am getting pretty confused. Something to do with wrapping the HTML tags in CDATA? and then doing the same in the AS? then 'joining' them..
As i said, i'm pretty confused.
I imagine this is the easiest thing in the world and I, as usual, am just being thick.

Any ideas? let me know,

Thanks ;)

Putting Text Into Movie Using Dynamic Text And Html Tags?
If i declare a variable name for a text box in flash, then using action script fill in the variable using html tags does it follow all the same rules as straight html as if i were creating a page in notepad or does it need to be formated differently?

Problem: HTML Tags In Dynamic Text Field
well, i got a code as follow for a text field named "Csearch":

========================================
onClipEvent(data){
Csearch = "CATEGORY
";
counter = parseInt(count);
for (counter > 0) {
temp_cat = eval("cat_name"+counter);
Csearch = Csearch + temp_cat + "
";
counter -= 1;
}
}

onClipEvent(load){
blah blah blah...
.
.
.
==========================================

After i add the HTML tags (which is here...), nothing is displayed. if i take away the HTML tag, everything work just fine. Basically, any HTML tags will just makes the text field disappeared.

Anyone know where's the problem lies or got similar exp before?

Terrorist winz,
Assaultor

Ext Loaded Dynamic Text: <HTML Tags Failing>
I'm loading text from an external .txt file. I want to put html tags to change the color and add links.

The links I can get to work, but when i change the color ...everything after the color change disappears when it's loaded.

Is there a fix for that in Flash MX?

Can anyone help?

thanks

Using HTML Tags In Dynamic Text With Typewriter Effect
Hi,

I am using the following to "write" my text into a dynamic text box with a typewriter effect, IE the text appears a letter at a time.

The problem is that although the text box is set to allow HTML tags it does not recognise them.

Could anyone show me what I need to add to allow this script to recognise the HTML correctly.

Script is:

myText = new LoadVars ()
myText.load ("thefacts.txt")
myText.onLoad = function () {
_root.holder = this.test
_root.index = 0
}
_root.onEnterFrame = function () {
if (_root.scroller.text.length != _root.holder.length) {
_root.typer = _root.holder.charAt (_root.index)
_root.scroller.text += _root.typer
_root.index ++
}
}

I have tried adding

myText.html = true

but that didn't work, it was a wild stab in the dark.

Thanks

Applying HTML Tags To Dynamic Text Sourced From XML
Hi guys,
Hoping someone can help me with what I imagine is an easy one but has got me stooped!
How the heck do you apply HTML formatting (bold, italics, line breaks etc) to dynamic text sourced from an XML doc?
I've tried everything, and have looked online but am now hideously confused.. something to do with wrapping the HTML tags in CDATA? but then you have to do the same with the AS? and then link it together?
As i said, iut's proabably v.easy and I, as usual, am just being thick, but I'm really beginning to get confused. :?

My code is pretty standard, just XML nodes loaded into a dynamic text box.
Any ideas?

Anyone Have A List Of HTML Tags Allowed In Dynamic Text Boxes?
I was looking for the answer on macromedia.com but all I could find was the list for Flash 5, which I'm hoping is a subset of what's allowed in MX.

Some HTML Tags Not Working In Dynamic Text Field? [MX04]
Hello,

I've searched the forum for an answer to this question but can't seem to find one. Maybe someone can help me. I am fairly new to Flash and am currently using MX2004. I have a field of text that needs to be scrollable and is, therefore, set to dynamic. I had some problems getting the text to appear when the movie was published but finally linked this my needing to export the font (Univers 45 Light), which I did. Everything seemed fine until I tried to add HTML tags to make certain words italic. Rather than making these words italic, the following code:

Code:
it's patented!
simply made the text within the tags dissapear. The bold tags gave me the same problem while tags like worked fine. My gut feeling is that this is a problem with the italic and bold version of Univers 45 Light not being exported. However, I do not know this for certain and am clueless as to how to remedy the problem. The text is not being loaded from an external file, but is being assigned in AS with:

Code:
myText_txt.htmlText = "this is the text with tags that don't work";
Does anyone have any suggestions or leads on fixes for this problem?

Thank you for your time,

-ZR

External Loaded Dynamic Text Disappearing With Certain Html Tags
Sup All //

Title says it all. Doing a site for a client, and I have a news section that has an external .txt file that loads dynamically into a text box in flash. Basic, stuff .. no sweat.

However, I am embedding the typeface for this text box, and because of that only certain html tags are making the text disappear. If I don't embed the type it shows up just fine. One in particular is the tag. I want to bold the date so it would look like this:

2.15.07 news text goes here.

basic stuff, however it shows up like this:

news text goes here.

The date is being cut out all together. I double checked and made sure my tags were correct. They are. I also have links tagged, and other tags, that are properly showing up. So why is so special ? any thoughts?

thanks all
-m

HTML Tags Not Working In Dynamic Text Fields Using LoadVariables....grrrr
Ok, so I've heard that in Flash 4, getting a LoadVariablesNum to properly read HTML tags was a huge...well let's say limited at best. Am I the only one having the same problems with MX??? Please, someone tell me what I'm missing!

Dynamic Text Field, multiline, (selectable), (scrollable)Render Text as HTML, var=Text.

The LoadVariables works fine, but I SEE THE SILLY HTML TAGS along with the text. Flash is NOT reading them as tags.

I also tried to add "instName.html = true" before the LoadVariables....no dice.

The worst part is, that I've gotten this to work on other projects I've done...It seems to work when it wants to. (kinda like me)

HELF...I mean HELP

Loading A *.txt File Using LoadVars() Into A Dynamic Text Field With Html Tags?
I'm loading a *.txt file using loadVars() into a Dynamic Text Field and having no trouble with that part.

But I am wondering how I can add html tags within the *.txt file and have flash render it as it does with strings internally? Is there a way of doing this with AS? Anyone got any ideas?

Stylesheet Applying To A Tags, But Not B Tags In Dynamic Text Box
Hello, I have a dynamic text box that pulls HTML-formatted content from a PHP script and everything is working, including getting it formatted with a stylesheet, except the stylesheet seems to be ignored for tags. This is the code I tried:

b,B { font-weight:bold; color:#6600FF; font-family:Baskerville; }
a:link { text-decoration:none; font-family:Baskerville; font-weight:bold; }
a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }
a:active { text-decoration:none; }

This is just for texting. I have a simple textbox with plain text, part of it in bold, part of it as a link, and the link gets the Baskerville font, but the bold tag doesn't. When I set a color for the link, the link gets a color but the bold tag doesn't. I'm stumped. Any ideas?

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.

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.

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

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 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.

Dont Want To Render < HTML > Tags In HTML Enabled Dyna Text
Hi All,

Is there any way to display < HTML > tags in the HTML enabled dynamic text field with out actually rendering it ? one constraint is, I want to enable the HTML feature for that text field all the time. because, i want to render some other tags.

The problem is in my text field unable to display msgs having <> characters i.e. even if I say < hello > it is not displaying anything, because, it is treating it as HTML tag and trying to render it. Is there any work around to display this text as it is ??

Thank all in adv,

External Text With <a> Tags - How To Decorate And Link
Hi

I was wondering if someone could answer a simple question for me. I have <a> tags in an external xml files that load up into mu flash movie and when I create links to other xml files, there is no decoration on the link, ie an underline or something and it opens the link in my browser, not in my flash movie.

How could I get it to open in my flash movie and to display some sort of decoration.

Thanks

Button On Level_1 Of Attached Swf Link To Mc On Root Of Target Swf
I have a webpage that i am redesigning and have come across a problem.

The page is made up of a "blank" page (main_page.swf) containing empty placeholders into which i am loading previously created SWFs using the loadMovie script.

The problem is that one of the loaded SWFs is a menu (menu.swf). on level_1 (slideBackground_mc) of the menu are a series of buttons (eg. main_btn). I am trying to use the buttons to load other external SWFs (main_text.swf, music.swf etc) into a content placeholder (content_mc) in main_page.swf.

the script i am using is:

main_btn.onRelease = function(){
loadMovie(main_text.swf,_root.content_mc)

I understand why this doesn't work, as it refers to the root of menu.swf. how do i get it to refer to content_mc on the root of main_page.swf.

I hope this is clear enough for someone to understand and explain to me whether it is possible to do.

Many thanks in advance.
jmckerchar

Embedding Html In Xml Tags, When Rednering Text As Html
Quick question,

I have a site that reads all content from an external xml. The text box that reads this info renders the content as html; does anyone know how to go about putting an html tag in an xml tag so that flash can read it?

So would it be possible to do:
<content>
" Welcome to the site we are happy to have you here <img src="logo.jpg"> "
</content>

Dynamic Menu / Html Tags
OK. I know I shouldn't do that but,... I did post this, in vain, in the action script forum.

Here's the prob. I'm hopeless at action scripting and want a dynamic menu which would extend as much as I add entries in my *.txt.
The links would be within the *.txt, between <a href..> </>.

THE problem is i dont want to open a new window, nor display in the same window. It is that I would like some other text to load in a textField.

Can someone help ?

Or can someone redirect me to an easy to use simple dynamic menu with scroller. I'd make it. As long as the data can be stocked in a *.txt.

Well, 1,000 thanks and more

eSBe

HTML Tags In XML Fed Dynamic TextBox
I wouldn't post this if I hadn't searched everywhere for the answer and came up dry:

I'm trying to use HTML tags in an XML fed dynamic text box. I've tried to use CDATA like this:

<root>
<details>
<![CDATA[<a href='http://www.myspace.com/thomasjack'target='_blank'>MySpace page</a>]]>
</details>
</root>

But when the data comes into Flash it displays the tags (minus the "![CDATA[" and ]] like this:

<a href='http://www.myspace.com/thomasjack'target='_blank'>MySpace page</a>

WTF is going on here. Please help. Any solutions?