Flash :: Getting The & Symbol To Load In Dynamic Text

™ Symbol In Dynamic Text?
i am loading text files for my scroll bars..

that way people in my office who do not know flash can still write and edit the pages...

i am trying to get a ™ trademark into my page...

when i type it on my mac keyboard it comes up as a FUNKY A when run in flash...

when i try and load in the HTML code for a trademark
™

nothing comes up or displays, and the textfile is truncated at the trademark.

when i try and type ™ or \™

i still cannot get it to display...

is there a special way to make a trademark logo pop up from a textfile?

thanks

Cant Get The Plus Symbol To Appear In Dynamic Text...
that is loaded from an external TXT file. It just dispays as a blank space in the swf. I assume this is because it is used as a scripting element, but there has to be some way of getting it to display. I've tried all the special keyboard codes I know, but nothing has worked. Any ideas?

The designer I am building the piece for wants to use the + symbol as a graphical element like so:

+menu item

The text is using rich formatting (HTML), but it does the same thing with it turned off. I did a quick test of just this functionality, and it is occuring regrdless of other scripting in the file. I made a simple text document with a row of 10 plus symbols between double quotes, then a line break, then a line of 10 pound symbols between double quotes. As you can see in the attached SWF, the plus' simply disappear to be rendered as blank spaces. If anyone can tweak the fla or text file to get it to work, that would be awesome!

www.meniscusinteractive.com/plustest/

Dynamic Text As Symbol?
When publishing a movie, dynamic text comes out much more crisp than static text. However, if I convert dynamic text to a graphic, I can't use any alpha tweening via motion tweens. Do I have to use actionscript for the tween or is there a way I am missing? Or, can static text be made more crisp?

Thanks all.

The % Symbol In Dynamic Text.
I have a .fla that loads a .txt
All is easy.
But if i put the symbol % in the .txt, all other letters or symbols are displyed... but % not.
I insert it embed font.

& Symbol In Dynamic Text Box.
Hi All

I appreciate all the help I have gotten here in the past. I searched for the answer to this but I couldn't figure out a search that would reduce the results to a manageable size.

The title pretty much says it all. I need to use & in a dynamic text box with html on. I have a multi-lingual site so I need the & symbol to display special charicters in the tet boxes. The other option is if someone knows how to display accents and such for French, German, Spanish, and Italian?

Thans much of the help, I'm sure its an easy answer that I couldn't find.

How Do I Load My Text In From An External File If Its On A Diffrent Symbol
ok I am exporting text into my flash from an external txt file using

loadVariablesNum("mytext.txt", 0);

works great if its on the main time line but it doesnt work if it is in a symbol on a diffrent layer.... any ideas ?

EURO Symbol In Dynamic Text?
Hi,

I've been asked to update a multi lingual site I produced last year for a client to reflect the recent introduction of the EURO.

Problem is that I have used dynamic text throughout the site and I can't seem to use the symbol in a text file.

Is there anyway to get around this? I've looked on the Macromedia site and hav had no luck.

Thanks,
SpaceyUK.

TRADEMARK Symbol In Dynamic Text
I'm trying to insert html text dynamically into a dynamic text box in flash.

I have been told to use the &153; symbol to get the trademark symbol to show up in html. This (amongst other things) has not worked when I upload.

Does anyone know a fix??? I am on a mac.

THANK YOU!

Autosizing Dynamic Text Within Symbol?
I'm working with a horizontal variation on this menu:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/acti...pdown_menu.htm

Is there a way to make the individual menu buttons scale according to content?

% Symbol In Dynamic Text Field...
Guys I know this is old but its been so long I cant remeber how to add special characters like the "%" symbol in text fields. Of course I have render as html checked off but cant remeber is it ascii or what?

Using The & Symbol In Dynamic Text Fields
Hi

I'm just wanting to create some dynamic text fields that contain the ampersand symbol &

I've this variable:-

Code:

myAmp = String.fromCharCode(38);

and then I'm using this code

Code:

prodTitle.text = "windsor scatter back sofa" +myAmp+ "sofa bed"

I obviously want this to read windsor scatter back sofa & sofa bed

When I trace myAmp I do get the & symbol but it doesn't populate the dynamic text field with the symbole when I use the code above.

Can I get around this? or should I just use the word and?

I just don't have much room for the word.

Thanks

Ricky55

Dynamic Text / HTML Text And A Less Than Symbol (<)
I have a dynamic text box into which I am loading text from a database. The text is input into the database via an html based backend that lets a client write a simple email type note, with basic (flash htmltext supported) formating such as bold, italics etc.

All of this works fine.

My problem arises when someone enters a less than symbol ... < ... into their text. The dynamic textbox interprets that < as the start of an html tag and the text stops displaying at that point. I can get around it by converting the < to %3c and having the text go into the dynamic text field's .text variable but that breaks the htmlformatting, so it needs to go into mytextfield.htmltext... problem being when I do that is that the pure < breaks the text string as mentioned above, or if it's converted to %3c.. it shows as %3c, not as a < symbol. Yes, it's a bit confusing.

How can I have a less than symbol appear when entered, yet still retain the html formatting for the dynamic text field?

Thanks for any input.

datter

Vertical Text In Dynamic Text Of A Symbol
I have created a basic symbol with dynamic text, so that I may have many of the same symbol and script the text that shows up on the symbol. When I have the text box in a horizontal orientation the text shows up in my animation but when I turn it into a vertical orientation my text does not show up. Unfortunately I need the symbols to have vertical text. Does anyone have any advice???

Can A Font Symbol Diplay Dynamic Text?
Hello FK!
I want to use a pixel font, turned into a font symbol, in my shared library, to display dynamic text from a txt file. Can it be done? It looks fine on my computer, but I want to be sure before I start changing files on my server.
thanks
matt

Dynamic Text Inside A Movie Symbol
I'm having a problem with dynamic input text...

For some reason i cannot get the text [[being inputted from an external text file]] to display within a movie symbol...

If the text box is left in the root stage it loads/displays just fine, however, the second i put it within the movie clip it refuses to display...

Convert Dynamic Text In To Symbol At Runtime
How to convert dynamic text in to symbol at runtime? I am using MX 2004. Thank you.

Displaying < Symbol From Dynamic Text File - Am I Going Mad?
Dear all I have been struggling with this for the last 2 hours and its driving me mad.

I have some plain text documents containing the content to be displayed in a dynamic text field within my SWF. So far all is well, the content is displayed on screen and is correctly reading from the plain text file.

I have a line of text which need to be displayed thus:

(P<.001)

this line in my text file appears like (<i>P</i> %3c.001)

However when I try to view this text file in my SWF there is an error and the text fails to be displyed after the P indicating a problem reading %3c for the < symbol.

I have tried other symbols in its place to see whether they are displayed correctly and they work. Ive tried %25 which shows the % symbol and %26 to show an & even %3e works to display a greater than > symbol

Am I going mad or is there something I am missing here to display the < symbol?

many thanks to anyone who can assist.

regards
D

PS - I am using Flash CS3 and exporting as Version 9

Using Special Symbol In Dynamic Text File.
In a dynamic text file, you place a &instancenamehere= before your text. What if you want to use the & symbol in your dynamic text? In java, you use a '' when using a special symbol in a string, for example.

String example = "This is how you use "quotes" in a java string";

What is the equivalent in AS? How can I use the & in my text without it throwing my code off?

Cheers,
Sean

Dynamic Text, Symbol Characters Disappearing
Hi.

I'm trying to animate text in 3d, and to do this i've made a MovieClip with a single character, created one of these for each character in my string, and animated the x, y, xscale, and yscale values to produce the effect of 3d. This works well.

My only problem is with my algorithm for setting the initial position of the text. I've attached my actionscript...

This works perfectly except for "symbol characters" like ?, !, &, @, etc.

textWidth appears to be 0 for these characters and just creates an empty MovieClip.

Any help is appreciated.

---

Attach Code

var nextPos = 0;
var kerning = 2;
for(var i = 0; i < numChars; i++)
{
// attach movie
var clip:MovieClip = this.attachMovie("clip_txt", "instance_mc_" + i, i, {_xscale: 0});

clip._txt.text = string.substr(i, 1);
clip._txt.autoSize = true;

clip._x = nextPos;// initial x position

nextPos += clip._txt.textWidth + kerning;
if(clip._txt.text == " ")
nextPos += 6;
}

Edited: 10/01/2007 at 04:32:30 AM by mdbtgm

Embedding Fonts, Or Font Symbol, For Dynamic Text?
Hello.

I use the same fonts throughout my website. The site itself is modular in nature, meaning several movies are loaded into and on top of one another. I have a shared library that all movies use for certain assetts.

My question is this. Can I embed or create a font symbol to apply to a dynamic text field that loads a .txt file? Instead of using a font the user has, I would like them to view the text in a pixel font that I use throughout the site.

Can it be done and what is the best method.

Dynamic Text Box In Embedded Movie Clip Symbol.
I'm sure the solution to this is obvious but I'm afraid I'm quite new to ActionScript,

I have created a dynamic text box which updates from the computer clock and always displays the correct time, this works fine with the code;

var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(500);
myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER,tick);
myTimer.start();
updateTime();

function tick(event:TimerEvent):void {
updateTime();
}

function updateTime():void{
var date = new Date();
var mins:uint = date.getMinutes();
var hours:uint = date.getHours();
timetext.text = pad(hours) + " : " + pad(mins);
}

function pad(number:Number){
var new_num:String = String(number);
if(new_num.length < 2){
new_num = "0" + new_num;
}
return new_num;
}

I've then embedded this in a flash movie and imported it to a website I'm working on, now that its embedded the time is no longer displayed, I've checked through the code and nothing has been changed, it's still on the same computer i originally made the movie clip on so the font itself shouldn't be missing i don't think...

any ideas? I'm a bit stuck here.

thank you for any help or opinions!

Dynamic Text Inside Symbol Display Problems
I am working on a file that pulls data from an external XML file and displays it inside dynamic text fields (which I learned from a fantastic tutorial right here on kirupa.com) The problem is that when I put those text fields inside a symbol so that they can all be animated at once the text ceases to display. I know that all my action script is working because when they are in the main stage they work fine.

I have already searched the forums for this and found this post (http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=206252) which, regrettably, did not work for me. I am working in Flash 8 but would like to export this to work with the Flash 6 player. Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance -- kons0uL

Is Converting Text To A Button Symbol The Same As Using An Image As A Symbol?
I'm trying to use text as navigation buttons in a flash website instead of image buttons. (I am using Actionscript 2) Any help is appreciated.

-Steven

Load Asp Into Flash& Load Content From Hyperlink Into Same DYNAMIC TEXT BLOCK
i'm trying to load content from database into my flash SWF. asp scripts call the info from server to render pages as HTML FRAMES at the moment. there are also hyper links on the HTML rendered pages that i want to work still, and call the content into the same page...or in my case same SWF file. is there a way to do this, as i have gotten it to load the content into the SWF, and pressing the hyperlink it opens the content, but in another browser window......however i want it to load into the same DYNAMIC TEXT FIELD.
anyone with suggestions??????
please help

Scrollpane - Load Swf - Load Movie Symbol Controled By Buttons And Variables?
Ok i have searched the board, and racked my brain and read hundreads of bit and pieces. So far 'not happy jan'. Anyhow I thought well I shall start a thread where first I ask a question of 'can it be done' then go away try and do it and if fail 'ask how to do it' or if suceed then say 'how i did it'. Of course all questions are going to relate back to this original post so no new threads need to be started. Anyhow onto my question!!

I have a website I want to make. so I started... called it 'site.swf'. now site.swf has a scrollpane in it called 'content'.

Now I have also created 'home.swf' which has 2 movie symbols in it. one called 'homein' the other 'homeout'.

'Homein' is located in frame1 of home.swf and 'homeout' is located in frame2.

When site.swf loads I want to load home.swf into 'content' and home.swf plays 'homein'.

When the user clicks on the first button (in site.swf) 'content' plays 'homeout' before loading 'button1.swf' into 'content' and playing 'button1in'

see the pattern forming. Now I am sure this has been asked thousands of times, but I haven't found it once. At least in a form that is easy to understand.

Now can this method be done, or do i need to go away and rethink it. (my main reason for loading external.swf's is because i wish to preload where needed).

If all this can be done tell me now... I am sure I need to use 2 variables.... 'loadedmovie' and 'tobeloaded' to communiticate with 'content' and to follow the users clicks of buttons.

Thanks for any help.

Trent

Load Text From A Text File Into A Dynamic Text Field
I'm trying to load text from a text file into a dynamic text field. The text field is on the "blog" page of the website. When I test my movie, the first time I go to the blog page, the text from the external text file (AND the CSS styles) show up fine. But when I click from the blog page to go to the "profit calculator" or "contact" pages and THEN click to go BACK to the blog page, the blog page animates back in, and right as the animation ends, the text on the blog page suddenly disappears and won't come back. PLEASE help me figure this out!

Asfunction - How To Load Dynamic Text With Dynamic Text? [F8]
Hello dear helpers !!!

I'm trying to get external, dynamically loaded text to load different text files into a text box. I've figured out that I need asfunction to do it through calling a function in the movie and passing it variables, although i haven't been able to write this function at all... would anyone mind giving me a hand???

thanks sooo much!!

p.s. I've managed to get this working by creating a toggle function, so at the moment I have 25 text boxes and a show/ hide function, but that's very buggy.

Button Function - Load Text File To Dynamic Text Field
Hey again,

okay straight into it. I have a few button named b1 b2 b3 and so on. Now these buttons i want to load a text file into a dynamic text field called myText. Now the text files which will be loaded contain html tags, so i want to have that property set.

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.

Now my menu is seperate to the body. I have 3 swf files, one called base.swf, nav.swf and body.swf. Base.swf loads nav and body onto it.

here is what i have as the script.

Frame1 - body.swf

_root.onData = function(){
myText.html = true;
myText.htmltext = _root.myInfo;
}

loadVariables("home.txt", _root);
loadMovie("scratchy.swf", logo);

Frame1 - nav.swf - gigsbut (button)
on (release) {
loadVariables("gigs.txt", _root.body);
}

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.

How To Load Dynamic Text According To Dynamic Image?
Hello all,

I want to make this artist portfolio (ie: a slide show) and I have found a tutorial that showed me how to dynamically load images in an empty movie clip.

Now, I'd like to attach a description for each images and I'd like to keep it dynamic. So, I imagine a folder with one text per image, having a name can can be incremented or decremented (description1.txt, description2.txt, and so on)

and I guess it's a matter of having a recognition of which image we're on in order to load the corresponding text...

Also, I was wondering, can I add html tag in the txt file in order to have some sort of formatting to the output text?

Where do I start?

Thanks

p.

How To Load Text From A Text File Using Dynamic Textfield?
is there a way that i can load text from a textfile using dynamic textfields? i can use an alternative where if the textfield's name is 'poetry', i'll just make a button that changes the text like

on( release )
{
poetry = "blafhlanflh lnalfhafl af";
updateAfterEvent();
}

but what if i have many poems to load? it will make the file bigger so im thinking that maybe ill just load text from a text file so even if i have many poems or other data, i can just load them from text files making load time faster...is there any way? hope you understood my dilemma...thanks in advance!

How Do I Load Text From A Text File Into A Dynamic Textfield?
is there a way that i can load text from a textfile using dynamic textfields? i can use an alternative where if the textfield's name is 'poetry', i'll just make a button that changes the text like

on( release )
{
poetry = "blafhlanflh lnalfhafl af";
updateAfterEvent();
}

but what if i have many poems to load? it will make the file bigger so im thinking that maybe ill just load text from a text file so even if i have many poems or other data, i can just load them from text files making load time faster...is there any way? hope you understood my dilemma...thanks in advance!

Load Text From A Text File Into A Dynamic Textbox
How do you load text from a text file [like notbook] into a dynamic textbox?

Need help fast!

How To Load Arabic Text Into Dynamic Text In Flash
hi all i hope any one help me how to load arabic text into dynamic text in flash

i use now xml file load variables from the BD then the swf file read these variable and show them to me in flash just that any arabic text is not shown or shown as squares

plz help

How To Load A Clip Or Image With Text In Dynamic Text Box
Hi guys,

Please help me!

I need text to be displayed with some movie clips or smileys with it in dynamic text box. Like the below

hi how are you?

but when i tried to do this i am getting some thing like this

hi how are you?

it is registering with left or right only. how to rectify it? I am using html output for attaching the clip with text for output.

using flash8 and actionscript 2.0

thanks in advance.

How To Load An External Text.txt Into A Movieclip Containing A Dynamic Text Box?
Hi Guys,

I can load text into a dynamic text box when it is on the main timeline.

But when I place the dynamic text box inside a movieclip, I can't get the text too load into the dynamic text box which is inside a movieclip.

Can anyone explain how to get "loadVariablesNum ("text.txt", 0);"
to load the text into a dynamic text box which is inside a movieclip.

Load Html Text Into Dynamic Text Field
Does anyone know the action script I need in order to load an external html text file (e.g. mytext.htm) into a dynamic text box. The dynamic text box has an instance name of ArticleTxt. Also where do I apply the action script, is it frame based? or do I apply it to the text box?

Can't Load External Text Into Dynamic Text Box When Online
Hi Guys,

I have looked around google and found a script to load in an external text file. The file loads in the text fine if tested on my local computer but when I test it on a server it wont load.

I tried changing the text file to a shorter piece of text, say 2 words, and then it worked online. As soon as the text is fairly long I get an "undefined" in the dynamic text box.

Anyway, this is the code:

------------------------------------------------------------------

myData = new LoadVars();
myData.onLoad = function(success){
if (success) {
textboxx.htmlText = this.cont;

} else {
textboxx.htmlText = "error loading variables";
}
}

myData.load("up.txt");

------------------------------------------------------------------

If anyone has any ideas that would be great. I know the variables and targets are all correct.

Cheers in advance

Load Text Into Masked Dynamic Text Field
hey ppl,

Ok I'm having some trouble here. i followed this tutorial (http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/cssfile.htm) in order to load text from an external file and apply css styles to it. BUT my problem is that the text is under a mask. Embedding the font results in an empty text box, not embedding a font results in the same thing.

Any ideas??!?

Thanks,

-atomicrabbit

Load Text File In Dynamic Text Field
Hello everybody,

I am working on a flash site, but I have a problem with it. I want to load a text file to a dynamic text Field. but my dynamic text Field in is the movie clip.

So How i can do this.

Please suggest me.

Load Text File In Dynamic Text Field
Hello everybody,

I am working on a flash site, but I have a problem with it. I want to load a text file to a dynamic text Field. but my dynamic text Field is in the movie clip.

So How i can do this.

Please suggest me.

How To Load A Clip Or Image With Text In Dynamic Text Box With
Hi guys,

Please help me!

I need text to be displayed with some movie clips or smileys with it in dynamic text box. Like the below

hi how are you?

but when i tried to do this i am getting some thing like this

hi how are you?

it is registering with left or right only. how to rectify it? I am using html output for attaching the clip with text for output

thanks in advance.

Need To Load Text File In Dynamic Text Field
Hi I have to hand in a project tomorrow for class and have one last
obstacle I need to overcome tonight.

I am a flash novice and can not figure out how to load a text file into
a dynamic text field.

I have followed step by step instructions multiple times from the
Macromedia website and another tutorial website and each time I test
the movie the text file does not appear - the window is blank.

Help please?!? Â Any recommendations or other websites I should try?

"&" Symbol In Dynamic Text
Hi to all

I have an text with html tags that loads from a MYSQL db by PHP to a dynamic field in flash. Everything is fine (i've used actionscript for special characters), excecpt for one thing: the "&" does not appear ant it cuts everything from that point on. can anyone help me?

thank you in advance

Dynamic Text And The "&" Symbol
I am trying to load in external text documents using the loadVariables command, which all work just fine. The problem I am havind is the implementation of the "&" symbol into my text. For instance: I would like for it to read R&D, but for some reason the text only displays up until the & symbol. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

Cant Load External Text Into Dynamic Text Box
I would like to be able to load in text from an external file.
I followed the example in the book that I have, (Flash MX Action Script for Dummies)
and it doesn't work.

I created a text file that I saved into the same directory as the flash file.
I inserted some action script to load the tesxt file, but i don't think its right
here it is anyway.

loadVariablesNum("E:\Work\TRICIA\College\Proje ct\Temp Flash\Temp Text\feas_format1.txt",1);

but i don't know how to assign the contents of the text box to this file and how to display it.

Please could someone suggest a way (that I understand) to do this.

Thanks,
Tricia

Load Mostly Static Text With Some Dynamic Text
Hopefully this is a simple question. I don't even know what type into google to find the answer.

I need a text box to display this text. We'll say for example the words in all caps are variables dynamically loaded but the rest is static text.

Text Box:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
<object classid="clsid:d27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="WIDTHVAR" height="HEIGHTVAR">
<param name="movie" value="NAMEVAR.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<embed src="NAMEVAR.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="WIDTHVAR" height="HEIGHTVAR"></embed></object>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Format And Load Text Into Dynamic Text Box?
The nicest and smartest people are on Kirupa.
Kirupa rocks.

What is the simplest most fool-proof way of pre-formatting text (even outside of Flash) then having it load into a Flash dynamic text box so that it LOOKS THE SAME? Whoever is kind enough to answer this, please be sickeningly descriptive. I can't get anything to work from tutorials. In fact, I can't even get a basic text file to load into a Flash text box! The text needs to maintain the hyperlinks assigned to various words.

* Scottie

I can design a city but can't fix a pipe.

Getting The & Symbol To Load In Dynamic Text

Im having my dynamic text read from a external .txt fileThough whenever I use the & symbol, anything after it doesnt show up. Is there a solution I can use to show the & symbol?

Im having my dynamic text read from a external .txt file

Though whenever I use the & symbol, anything after it doesnt show up. Is there a solution I can use to show the & symbol?