Dynamic Text Box Not Saving In FLA?
I have dynamic text boxes with scrollable text in them. I have two buttons that I created to scroll the text. The text box has the "selectable text" button pressed and the "render as html" button pressed. when I paste in my info into the dynamic text box, everything works great and the text just shows in the area that I initially created the dynamic text box (so in order to view all the text you have to put your cursor in the text box and scroll up or down. This works great... until I save my file, then open it back up to work on it... then all the dynamic text boxes extend as far as the end of the text that was in them. I then have to recreate it in order to work. What is going on? Why would it be doing this? I don't want to have to do this every time... please help me!
Thank you,
-- K
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Posted on: 08-27-2003, 11:45 PM
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package
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.display.StageAlign;
import flash.display.StageScaleMode;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
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private var txt_comment_input:TextField;
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{
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trace(this.numChildren);
}
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Error: Error #2101: The String passed to URLVariables.decode() must be a URL-encoded query string containing name/value pairs.
at Error$/throwError()
at flash.net::URLVariables/decode()
at flash.net::URLVariables$iinit()
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