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Dynamic Text - Text Possition
Hi There

I've used the tutorial on here 'Loading Text from External Sources', which works great. The problem I'm having is, that if you scroll the text in one external file, if you click on a button to go to another file the text starts off to where u last scrolled to, when I want it to start at the beginning. The code behind the buttons is as follows:

on (release) {
loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load("TEXT2.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
// trace(success);
newsBox.html = true;
newsBox.htmlText = this.myNews;
}
};
}

Does anyone know how I can do this???
Thanks x

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When I load an external text file into flash and display the string in a dynamic text box, not all of the text will show in the text box; and using scroll button to scroll the text doesnt help.

The text that is in the text file is as follows, and as far as I can see there is no reason why all this text shouldnt show in the dynamic text field; by the way all my targets are correct, I know that for fact.

message=Code: Cheat:
BEEPSAGONER Deactivate the censor beeps
DRACULASTEABAGS 50 lives
DUTCHOVENS Frying pan mode
XFYHIJERPWAL IELWZS Debug mode
BOVRILBULLETHOLE Shoot all objects
EASY Easy mode
VERYEASY Very easy mode
SPUNKJOCKEY New death animation
SEXYMANN Birdy & Squirrel scene

Code: Unlock chapter:
PRINCEALBERT Barn Boys
CLAMPIRATE Bats Tower
ANCHOVYBAY Slopranos
MONKEYSCHIN Uga Buga
SPANIELSEARS Spooky
BEELZEBUBSBUM It's War
CHOCOLATESTARFISH The Heist
WELDERSBENCH All chapters and scenes

Code: Unlock Multiplayer character:
WELLYTOP Conker
EASTEREGGSRUS Neo Conker
BILLYMILLROUNDABOUT Gregg the Grim Reaper
CHINDITVICTORY Weasel Henchmen
EATBOX Cavemen
RUSTYSHERIFFSBADGE Sergeant and Tediz Leader
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The reason is because the dynamic text appears to be taking up about 90 % of the CPU usuage and I dont know any other way to reduce the CPU usage.

The text areas pull in lots of data from text files which slows down the program.

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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.

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I am calling test in from a .txt and was wonding if there was a way to have a page with a bunch of information and have it obly call an indevidual paragraph or sentance depending on what i want it to ask.

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Hi,

If you take a look at my flash movie you will see that I have draggable movie clips, which contain dynamic text fields. These text fields contain text drawn in from a simple xml document.

The problem I have is that the text in the text fields is hedged right next to the border of the autosized text box. This makes them look untidy and in the worst case difficult to read. I wonder how I can add some margin to the left and right of the text to fill in some space.

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/home/ccz...AndDrop3.1.swf

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/home/ccz...AndDrop3.1.fla
(you also need the xml doc at : http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/home/ccz...scriptions.xml )

The code which formats the text boxes is:

with (main["dragAct"+i].dragActText) {
text = actText[i+1];
background = true;
backgroundColor = "0xe2e2e2";
setTextFormat(myFormat);
autoSize = "center";
border = true;
borderColor = "0x666699";
}

my text formatting looks like this, and you can see that I have tried to use leftMargin / rightMargin but these properties don't seem to work:

var myFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat("Tahoma", 12);
myFormat.leftMargin = 20;
myFormat.rightMargin = 20;
myFormat.bold = true;

Any suggestions most welcome.

Thanks

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I have tried this:

_root.video_title.text = _root.MC_Control.tab_title.text;

and this:

_root.video_title.text == _root.MC_Control.tab_title.text;

neither one seems work....am I missing something?

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Hey! You recognize me yet? I've got (hopefully) one last question for a while. Could somebody please tell me how do to get the text value of a text box with text that's formatted as HTML? ( it was formatted similar to "textBox.htmlText = "...";")

I tried "myVariable = textBox.htmlText", but it just gave me the formatting garbage it's using (<TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"></TEXTFORMAT>) without the actual text that my users see. I also tried "myVariable = textBox.text;", but it returned a blank variable.

Many thanks, me Flash bruthas
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How do you, if possible, can add text to a dynamic text field on where the text cursor.

Example:
| = text cursor
by pressing a button I want to add "How are you?" where the cursor is
____________________________________________
Hello
|
Bye
____________________________________________

Results:
____________________________________________
Hello
How are you?|
Bye
____________________________________________

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hello,

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ok - here's the url

http://www.rongilcreast.com/Test_Site/main.html

when I 'test movie' in Flash, the text comes in. But not now that it's online . . .

2nd problem. I want to add a scrollbar to the textbox, but when I drag the scrollbar onto the textbox, it doesn't snap-to the text box and resize itself.

all the files are here:

http://www.rongilcreast.com/Test_Site/main.fla
http://www.rongilcreast.com/Test_Site/main.swf
http://www.rongilcreast.com/Test_Site/Index.txt

whatamIdoin'wrong?

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PHP Code:

 for(i=0; i<=4; i++) {
 if(_root["order_"+ q][i] == 0) {
 ["order_"+ i]text = "First";
 trace("first");
 } else if (_root["order_"+ q][i] == 1) {
 ["order_"+ i]text = "Second";
 trace("Second");
 } else if (_root["order_"+ q][i] == 2) {
 ["order_"+ i]text = "Third";
 trace("Third");
 } else if (_root["order_"+ q][i] == 3) {
 ["order_"+ i]text = "Fourth";
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 ["order_"+ i]text = "Fifth";
 trace("Fifth");
 }
 }

basically I want to do this -

PHP Code:

order_0.text = "First";

So how can I change this line to work as expected?

PHP Code:

["order_"+ i]text = "First";

EDIT- The instance names for the dynamic text fields are set
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Currently I'm using javascript which works fine to pass text from textfield A to textfield B:

Code:
window.onload=function()
{
document.forms.form1.shirtText.value=document.forms.form1.KitGroupID_16_TextOption_38.value
}
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Your help/advice would be greatly appreciated,

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Is this possible? How do I build the text file? Do I need separate text files for each message? What ActionScript code do I use to identify the current date, and then display the appropriate message with the current date.

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Hi.

I'm in the process of writing a guestbook using Flash, PHP and a MySQL database. A large part of the Flash-code, is fully functional, but there is one strange problem.

The text i'm echo'ing from the PHP document into Flash, doesnt wrap correctly in my textfield. I've set the textfield to multiline and I've pressed the "Render as HTML"-tab. But the text is displayed with HTML-tags and stays on one line.

This is how it looks: http://www.riminalitet.org/guestbook.swf The buttons below the field are "Next"- and "Back"-buttons for the submissions...(It's danish )

I've experienced that it works if I use
instead of in my HTML-formatted code. But I'd like to use BOLD as well. And if I urlencode my output-code from PHP, nothing changes. Still one line with HTML-tags...

The textfield is embedded in a scrollPane. I'm targeting this field in my LoadVars function. Can this has something to do with the problem?

Should I use the ScrollBar component in stead of the scrollPane to retrieve dynamic text? (This would be a little bugging, since my goal is to display the text nicely with some graphics around it).

Hope some of you guys can help me with this. Bye now...

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Or

I use dynamic text (arial) non-embedded and it looks good too. The text doesn't change but leaving it as dynamic makes it render better.

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I have dynamic text field that loads in a txt file containing
html formatted text including an embedded image.
When I test the movie the text that should appear bellow
the image, instead, runs down the right side of the image.

I have tried adding various html attributes including -

Code:
 <img src="image.gif" /> 
I have also tried attaching a style sheet and appying the
following class -

Code:
img.allClear {
clear: all;
}
and also redefining the image tag -

Code:
img {
clear: all;
}
None of witch have worked.

Can someone help with this please.

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I have the following code:
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this.createTextField ("imageText",2,95,0,390,96);

imageText.multiline = true;
imageText.wordWrap = true;
imageText.autoSize = true;
//imageText.embedFonts = true;
imageText.html = true;
imageText.htmlText = text; // variable loaded earlier in script....
imageText.selectable = true;

imageTextFormat = new TextFormat();
imageTextFormat.color = 0xCA9E1D;
imageTextFormat.size = 16;
imageTextFormat.font = "Sabon RomanSC";
imageText.setTextFormat(imageTextFormat);
//imageText.embedFonts = true;
trace(imageText.text);
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The problem:
If I uncomment either of the imageText.embedFonts lines, my text will disappear... but the trace(imageText.text); will still return the correct contents. It's as though embedFonts causes the textField to disappear.

Possibly related, (but maybe not), is the fact that the vertical positioning of the font is off. Even though I create the textField at Y = 0, the text writes somewhere around Y = 10. I suspect this is something else, but I thought I'd add it just in case.

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'Ello g'vnr

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Now current I have home.text loading into myText automically on swf loading. But when I click any of the buttons the text file won't change over.

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here is what i have as the script.

Frame1 - body.swf

_root.onData = function(){
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Frame1 - nav.swf - gigsbut (button)
on (release) {
loadVariables("gigs.txt", _root.body);
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can anyone help point out where I am going wrong. I have a feeling I am not targeting the text field right from the button. If you could help point me in the right direction rather then give me the answer that would be good as I would learn better from that. Thanks

Wolfie

PS - Let me know if you want or need more info. Am happy to post it up.

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ran = math.round(math.random()*1000+1);
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here is a link to the fla file if you want to look at the whole thing:
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http://mcc.larrychendesign.com/untitledmcc.fla
http://mcc.larrychendesign.com/home.txt

I am using flash mx 2004 pro and am exporting/publishing in flash player 7 and actionscript 2.0...

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the main part that i'm talking about starts from "function scaleUp()" and down, but i posted what i have so far for context. with the posted code, the static text will fade in with the tween, but the dynamic text just plops there.

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PHP Code:

// place background at 0% alpha
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bg_mc._alpha = 0;
// import flash tweens
import mx.transitions.Tween;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;
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fadeIn.onEnterFrame = function() {
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};
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    line_mc._x = 450;
    line_mc._y = 300;
    line_mc._visible = false;
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}
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If I load some HTML text from within a script, the text box displays entities fine (like &174 to display a ® trademark symbol).

However, when using LoadVars to load the text from an external text file, I can't use ampersands in the text file, because the LoadVars interprets them as indicating the start of another variable.

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My stylesheet does not specify any font family.

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Here's my actionscript:

PHP Code:

stop();

import TextField.StyleSheet;
var myStyleSheet:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet();
myStyleSheet.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
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    } else {
//        trace("Error loading CSS");
    }
};
myStyleSheet.load("styles.css");
txtFilmNews.html = true;
txtFilmNews.styleSheet = myStyleSheet;
txtFilmNews.width = 295;
txtFilmNews.autoSize = true;
txtFilmNews.selectable = false;

var lvFilmNews:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
lvFilmNews.onLoad = function(success) {
    if (success) {
        txtFilmNews.htmlText = lvFilmNews.html;
    } else {
        trace('load failure!');
    }
}
lvFilmNews.load('getHTML.php?q=filmNews');

Here is my stylesheet:

Code:

p {
color: #53301A;
font-size: 12px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
border:none;
}

.title {
font-size: 15px;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: #D06F1A;
font-weight:bold;
}

a {
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font-weight:bold;
}
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www.rubenbenjamin.com

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Attach Code

//Here's my actionscript:
stop();

import TextField.StyleSheet;
var myStyleSheet:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet();
myStyleSheet.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
if (success) {
// trace("Styles loaded:");
} else {
// trace("Error loading CSS");
}
};
myStyleSheet.load("styles.css");
txtFilmNews.html = true;
txtFilmNews.styleSheet = myStyleSheet;
txtFilmNews.width = 295;
txtFilmNews.autoSize = true;
txtFilmNews.selectable = false;

var lvFilmNews:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
lvFilmNews.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
txtFilmNews.htmlText = lvFilmNews.html;
} else {
trace('load failure!');
}
}
lvFilmNews.load('getHTML.php?q=filmNews');

//Here is my stylesheet:
p {
color: #53301A;
font-size: 12px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
border:none;
}

.title {
font-size: 15px;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: #D06F1A;
font-weight:bold;
}

a {
color: #D06F1A;
font-weight:bold;
}
a:hover {
color: #53301A;
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List.text = ImportsText;
}

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I have a list of 30 things that need to go in the place of the word imports, one each per line.

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and so button2 loads the text from the text file text2.txt and it is put in last.text

and so on.

Would like the text files to be able to have some formating that is translated to the Last.text

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I'm using the recommended

Code:
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if(success){}

etc..
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ie.

Code:
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PHP Code:

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///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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the question is:

how can i "resize" (add lines) my dynamic text field depending on the amout of text - i tried getting maxscroll and resizing but that only makes it bigger and doesnt add any additional lines like i d like it to...

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Code:
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Oh by the way - this is for the projector...

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http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...t_outlines.htm

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