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Show Text In Dynamic Text Box (nested Movie Clip)
can someone please help me look in my file.. i stuck here 1 day already..
i wan the dynamic text box fill in the number when i click on the button. And the value is keep increasing by 1 once i click the button.

the nested movie clip is as folo,

mc_A-->mc_B-->txtnumber

the button is in the mc_B..

please help me... thanks..

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Accessing Dynamic Text Within Dynamic Added Movieclip.
Hi there.

I'm trying to access and change a dynamic text field within a dynamically added movieclip.

This is how I'm trying to accomplish that;

ActionScript Code:
uButton = attachMovie("_button",arr_videos[i][1], ++uDepth);
uButton._x = uButtonStartX;
uButton._y = uButtonStartY + uButtonDistance * uDepth uButton.btn_name.text = "button name";

btn_name is the name of the dyn. textfield.

But this does nothing.. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for your help

Samuel

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Script Added Dynamic Text Scroller
i've been trying to make a scroller for the dynamic text i've added with
the CreateTextField function, and no succesc.
All the scroller tutorials are not for dynamic text added by script, i've tryed to addapt some but none seem to work!
can anyone help! please.

Thanx

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Dynamic Text In Button Isn't Defined After Buttons Is Added Dynamicaly With AddChild
I am having the following problem.

I have a button in my library called "partsTrayBtn", this button is setup with a linkage class called "PartsTrayBtn." Inside this button there is a dynamic text field with an instance name "btnTxt." I am trying to add multiple instances of this button to the stage and change the text in each button instance. Here is my code.

Code:
for each(var cat in parts.categories)
{
var tmpPartsTrayBtn:PartsTrayBtn = new PartsTrayBtn()
cat.btn = partsTray.partsTrayBtnCont.addChild(tmpPartsTrayBtn);
cat.btn.x = i * partsTrayBtnWidth; //sets the position
trace(cat.btn.btnText); // gives me undefined
cat.btn.bntText.text = cat.name; //causes error
i++;

}
Everything works except the btnText instance inside each of the buttons is undefined. What do I need to do to access this text field in the dynamicaly created buttons?

Thanks alot
Nick Carlevaris

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Using Dynamic Text In A Movie Clip
I have a movie clip that i have dynamic text setup in reading from a text file with scrolling arrows on the side... Well the text will show up but it wont scroll... Is there any programming stuff I need to do besides what you do when its on the base page...

Any help would be great

The arrows have

on (press) {
tellTarget ("uptrigger") {
gotoAndPlay (2);
}
}
on (release, releaseOutside) {
tellTarget ("uptrigger") {
gotoAndStop (1);
}
}

and the down arrow is the same but with downtrigger...

please help!!!

Jonathan

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Dynamic Text In A Movie Clip
I can successfully pull in an external text file's contents as long as the dynamic text field and the loadVariablesNum action are in the root timeline. How can I get it to work within a movie clip within the main timeline? The scenario is - a text bubble appears with dynamic text in it. I need to be able to contain the dynamic text design within the text bubble movie clip, but currently nothing shows up.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Dynamic Text Into Movie Clip
Using Flash 5, I've created dynamic text (named "text1") into a movie clip (instance named "movie1") on the main timeline. What is the correct syntax when passing the variable in the html?

I know when the dynamic text is on the main time line (not in a movie clip) it is:

EMBED src="Movie.swf?text1=XYZ"

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Dynamic Text Within Movie Clip
Hi,
I'm trying to figure out how to reference a text variable that's within a movieclip (I want to reuse the movie clip numerous times, while changing some of the text within it).

I can't seem to address text variables inside movie clips (I've tried _root _parent _global, most everything I can think of). Seems like it should be straightforward but once I try to reference it in a movie clip, no go.

I've seen other people with the same problem, but haven't found a thread with an answer yet.

Thanks,
Maria

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Movie Clip And Dynamic Text
hi everyone..

let's say i have a movie clip that fades a dynamic textfield in, and then out...

tween:

fades in..... then fades out...

and then i would like to change the text in the dynamic field after it fades out.. because i'd like it to tween again, using new text.

help!

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Dynamic Text In Movie Clip
Hello:
I have playing with flash mx for some time now and have created a somewhat amateur site with it. My ? is, can I put an external a dynamic text field using the scrollbar feature in a movie clip? I did the tutorials that came with flash and took a beginners course in flash in a local college, but didn't cover this.
One of my pages has too much text to fit in one of the pages, so the scroll feature would be great, if I could only figure it out.
Thanks
PS. is this considered a "newbie" ?

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Dynamic Text In A Movie Clip?
I had a flash movie which used dynamic text boxes. As the project has expanded i moved these boxes into a movie clip. Now the text doesn't load.

I used

loadVariablesNum("Dave.txt",0);

text box instance name 'Dave" Var content.

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Dynamic Text In Movie Clip
I have a dynamic text box inside a movie clip. Where do I need to call the variable to get it to load properly?

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Dynamic Text Box In Movie Clip
Hello,

I have this movie in flash that graphs tide data. At every point, I attach a copy of a dot-button movie clip. When the user mouses over the dot, it should show the time and height of the tide in a tooltip-like window. This tooltip is just a box in the over state of the button with two dynamic text boxes in it - using variables timeTxt and heightTxt. When I run the script, it does everything right, except that there is no text in the tooltips. I've verified that the variable is there using the debugger, but its not on the text.

[code]for(var j = 0;j < points.length;j++){
this.attachMovie("point_dot","point"+j,1000+j);
this["point" + j].timeTxt = times[j];
this["point" + j].heightTxt = heights[j];
this["point" + j]._x = points[j][0];
this["point" + j]._y = points[j][1];
}CODE]

Also, its online here: http://my.boatus.com/tides/tideChart.html

Thanks

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Dynamic Text In Movie Clip
I am trying to place a dynamic text field inside of a movie clip. My text field displays correctly if it is on the main stage. I used the code loadVariables("text.txt","_root");

But when I put this in the movie clip on frame one it changes my text field and displays: _level0instance67_"name"

Is there a way to call a text document from a movie clip?

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Dynamic Text In Different Movie Clip
Inside scene one i have a movie clip that contains a movie clip that contains a dynamic text field. Also inside Scene one I have a different movie clip that contains a movie clip that contains a movie clip that contains a input text field. And I need for the user to type in to the input text field and see what they are typing show up in the dynamic text field. What would that script look like and where would I put it? Can anyone help please?

Edited: 05/24/2007 at 08:43:49 AM by relief8

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Dynamic Text In A Movie Clip.
so i have a this movie clip, inside the movie clip i am dynamically loading images into little movie clips and i wanna dynamically load text into text fields in the clip as well. currently i am using this code to load the text into the fields, but it's not working.

loadText = new LoadVars();
loadText.load("../images/news.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function() {
myNews.html = true;
myNews.htmlText = _root.one.city1;
};

it is cause i can't trace a path to a text field like i can a movie clip?

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==> Dynamic Text In Movie Clip
when i make a movie clip and place a dynamic text box in side and asign it a var of "name" i can place a

onClipEvent(load) {
name = "Button";
}

and it will show the word "Button" in the dynamic text box in the movie clip but when i put this clip in to motion it no longer shows the test is there a way to get around this problem.

any help would be greatly apricated

PS: i owe to this site and the ppl of these fourm all i know

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Dynamic Text In Movie Clip
Hi,
how do i get the let the dynamic text box inside the movie clip to display the string?
currently i have a movieclip called newblock_mc with linkage inside the library, the variable name for the dynamic box is cy_block.
and my script (on a frame) is:

cy_block = cy_break_array1[1];
attachMovie("newblock_mc",cy_block,2);

so why doesn't the dynamic box in the movie clip display the string, cy_block?
if u need to know... cy_block contain chinese characters.
I placed a dynamic text box on the stage, and it is able to display the chinese words in cy_block, only the one embedded in the movie clip couldn't.

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Dynamic Text In A Movie Clip? Help
I'm trying to put a site together in which the owners can update their text. I've done this before on other sites without any problems but I cant get it to work this time. I'm assuming this is because this time the text field is within a movie clip rather than in the _root directly (i'm also having problems with input text. presumably for the same reason). This is the code I'm using to call up the .txt file:

loadVariables("beginners.txt","_root");

I've tried putting the name of the movie clip and instance name of the movie clip in which the text field is embedded in there except "_root" but I'm still having no joy.

Can anyone help?

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Movie Clip + Dynamic Text
I have a dynamic text box inside a movie clip that I want to load text in it from a text file. How do I go about this?

Also I would like to make it scrollable please help if you can

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Dynamic Text In A Movie Clip
I am loading an external text document into a dynamic text field using:
loadVariablesNum("text.txt", 0);

However, I am trying to have this dynamic text field inside of a movie clip, and it no longer pulls from the text file. Only pulls from the text file if the text field is sitting in the main scene.

Any direction would be great!

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Dynamic Text Into A Movie Clip...
Stumped: this may be easy for most here, but I am a painter.

I am loading a .swf into a site:

_root.createEmptyMovieClip("container",1);
container.loadMovie("../assets/subpage/subpage.swf");
container._x = container._y = 0 ;

On subpage.swf is a Movie Clip that contains a dynamic text field that I want to load from a .txt file. I can load text dynamically using

loadVariablesNum("text1", 0); into the site, but I need the dynamic text to be inside a movie clip, and then the .swf(subpage) to be loaded into the site... I have tried changing the level, and "exporting for action script" the text file and using:

loadVariables("../assets/subpages/subpage.swf","text_1"); to load directly into the movie clips name...Driving me nuts!

Thanks a million to whoever can help!

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Dynamic Text In A Movie Clip
I'm using Flash MX 2004 Professional, and I was making a heading for an online journal. On the heading, I have a dynamic text box which changes (to be redundant) dynamically onmousover on various buttons. This all worked fine.

Then I decided I wanted to be able to move the entire flash document (i.e., on the click of a button, the whole thing would scroll up). So I converted it all to a movie clip. When you are viewing the movie clip symbol and do Test Scene, it still works perfectly. But when you view the entire movie, none of the dynamic text boxes work. Even if I do something as simple as "textbox1.text = 'HELLO WORLD' " it works in the scene, but not in the overall movie.

Why is this?

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Dynamic Text Within Movie Clip
i have created a dynamic text box which fetches text from a external file. however when i put the text box into a movieclip (rather than directly on the scene's timeline) it stops working. i have a feeling it has to do with the command which loads the files...

loadVariablesNum("news.txt",0);

can anyone help?

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Dynamic Text Within Dynamic Movie Clip Loops
Ok my predicament. I am trying to create thumbnails, but instead of using pictures as the thumbnails I would like to have text, formatted blah blah for people to select. Now the code I am trying to adapt is fine and dandy to get working with pictures, so I know the part of this code that creates the movie clip is fine. However I cannot seem to dynamically create the text boxes within the movie clips. I need to have them within the movie clips so the opacity will change when they are hovered over.

Code:

currentName = "t"+k
thumbnail_mc.createEmptyMovieClip(currentName, thumbnail_mc.getNextHighestDepth());
thumbnail_mc.currentName.createTextField("text"+cu rrentName, thumbnail_mc.currentName.getNextHighestDepth(), 0, 0, 244, 28)
thumbnail_mc.currentName.text="test"

k will be changing anyway for each time through taht a movie clip is made hence why they will need different names.

Any help...hope this can be understood.

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Rotating A Movie Clip That Contains Dynamic Text.
I have a movie clip that is a circle which, in turn has movie clips around the edge.

Each of these movies clips contains a dynamic text field.

When I try and set the _rotation value of the circle clip in the main movie, the dynamic text boxes will only display their text when they are at 0 degrees (at the top of the circle in this instance).

Is this a "feature" in flash or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Andrew.

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Dynamic Text Inside Movie Clip?
i know that you can load a txt file onto your main stage, but can you load a txt file into a movie clip and then drag that into your stage?

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Updating A Dynamic Text Box In A Movie Clip
Hi all,

Pleae can someone tell me how to update a movie clip which has been planted on the main timeline to update when I enter some text into a imput text box on the main timeline i.e. entering your name into an imput txt box clicking a forward arrow to move to the movie clip displaying a welcome screen and the name entered.

I can get this to work when the Dynamic text box is on the same stage by using the set variable command but this doesn't work when switching to the movie clip that needs updating.

Any help much appreciated.

Shen

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I am having difficulty getting my external text to load into a movie clip. The text is supposed to load into a circle (movie clip) that is moving around on the screen. I have the text box on the circle, but can't get the text file to actually load into the box, on the clip. Could anyone help me with the script that should load the text into the moving clip?

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Fade In Movie Clip Containing Dynamic Text...
Is it possible to use a simple motion tween fade on a movie clip that contains dynamically loaded text from an external text file? All my efforts to do this continue to result in the text simply showing up, not fading in...

Thanks for the help.

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Dynamic Text Load In Movie Clip
I a movie clip (_root.movie) with a dynamic text field inside of it. when I use "loadVariablesNum" is there a certain level that I need to use for it to work? If not why can't I get my text to load. Script looks like this:

(on _root.members)
onClipEvent (load) {
loadVariablesNum("./texts/members.txt", 0);
this.scaleDest = 5;
this._x = 0;
this._y = 0;
}

All the other stuff is for an inertia gig I'm working on so you can ignore it.

Thanks,

Tchus,

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Controlling A Movie Clip With A Dynamic Text Box
I have a dynamic text box for the score called SCORE. What I need to happen is that when the score reaches a certain value, say 5, some script tells a movie clip called AWARD to play a certain frame.

Ignoring all syntax I have the following

if SCORE==5
telltarget AWARD
gotoandstop 2

It does absolutely nothing, although the score works.

Plz help

Timo

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Hey, I searched all across the forums for something like this... I found a few things similar, but nothing ended up working. I have a Dynamic Text box named "About" inside of a movie clip (not in the main scene). Most will probably say something about "_root.whatever.About" but I'm not entirely sure that I understand that whole concept. Anyway, I have the action of loading the Var inside of this movie clip, in the same clip as the dynamic text. When I test the .swf file, instead of displaying the .txt file I tell it to load, it displays something like "_level0.instance98.instance99.About" and the numbers change every time. If anybody could please help me out, I'd really appreciate it... I've spent hours trying to figure this out already, heheh. Thanks!

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Changing Dynamic Text In Movie Clip
I have a clip that has been attached with attachMovie and it is registered with a class (messageClass). I have several dynamic text boxes and I want to be able to change their values. Here is how I'm trying to do it so far, but it doesn't seem to be working:

Code:
messageClass.prototype.prop = function(a, b, c, d){
this.id = a;
this.dateBox.date = b;
this.authorBox.author = c;
this.messageTextBox.messageText = d;
}
//then later:
message0.prop("hello","hello","hello","hello");
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong or how you would do this? Thanks...

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Duplicate Movie Clip + Dynamic Text
Hi there,

Can u please check the code for me? It returns wrong at the moment...

PHP Code:

var i;
var total = 5;
for (i=0; i<total; i++) {
    duplicateMovieClip(_root.txtMC, "txtMC"+i, i);
    with (eval("_root.txtMC"+i)) {
        _y += 20*i;
        txtField="This is line " + i;
    }
}

I would like to get this format....

this is line 0
this is line 1
this is line 2
this is line 3
this is line 4

Cheers

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Dynamic Text Inside A Movie-clip
Hi, let's see what I'm doing wrong...
Main time line...frame 1:
- A dynamic textbox which loads from a txt file.
- AS: loadVariablesNum (variable, 0);
Ok, so far this is working fine...

Now I turn this dynamic text box into a MC symbol.
...and it isn't working any longer...Why??

Just do the test, you'll see it ain't working no-more.
I don't thinks its paths this time...

can anybody help please?
Thanks.

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Yes ANOTHER Dynamic Text Question, In A Movie Clip?
I have found so many threads and tutorials for scrolling dynamic text boxes. I could not find any that state the slight change in code if you are putting a dynamic text box in a movie clip.

I am gussing that you alter the path to the text.txt document to recive the info (text)...?
Do I need to enter the instance name of the movie clip in here:
loadVarsText.load("test.txt");

Am I on the right path?
Thanks for the input.
AD

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Accessing Dynamic Text In A Movie Clip
hello all

after sometime iam posting in this forum. my doubt is

i have a movie clip with instance "tree". in that movie clip i have dynamic text called "test".
then in the main timeline iam dropping the mc and from a button iam trying to load content from a text file and then display it in the text box called "test". how do i it.

another thing is if i put the textbox into the main timeline and put the code "loadVariablesNum("D:\Source Files\Flash\one.txt", 0);" in the first frame. it is properly loading the text. any ideas people.

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I've read several requests for this and tried everything suggested but I still cannot get my text to appear after it's converted to a movie clip. If I edit the movie clip and test it, it works but as soon as I'm on the main timeline, it will not work, and yes, I've embedded my fonts. I need this soon so please can somebody help. I'm attaching a link to my file.
http://www.creativecommunications.ca...namic_text.zip

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Dynamic Text In A Dublicated Movie Clip?
Hi,
I'm working on a small application that will work as putting up notes on a board.
The note is a dragable movieclip that also contains a dynamic textfield and the idea is that I should put in text in a inputfield and then press "ok" and get a new note with that text on.

My problem is how I could access that text field in the note movieclip.

So far my "ok"-button only has this code:
on (release) {
postIts = "lapp"+x;
lapp.duplicateMovieClip(postIts, x);
postIts.text1.text="hej"; //this didn't work at all ofcourse
x++;
}
Hope you understod me and that someone could help me with it.
Cheers
Magnus

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Masking A Movie Clip Containing Dynamic Text?
I have a simple hand made dynamic scroller. It runs from a text file.

fyi : when i refer to 'record display' below, I mean the movie clip which contains a dyamic text field. the text field is were the loaded data shows up.

If I mask the scroller (in order to clip the viewing area correctly), it incorrectly displays the records in the scroller (it shows the text, and one record display). If I remove the mask, everything displays correctly, but nothing is clipped.

if you look in the text file (CellData.txt), you can set the first variable MASK, to true if you want flash to mask the scroller, or to anything else (false) if you want to see how it looks without the masking.

what is the workaround for this. I have included an example

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Dynamic Text In A Duplicated Movie Clip
I'm trying to display a value in an array of duplicated movie clips. I removed the variable for each of the movie clips and replaced it with a constant to isolate my problem. I'm not sure what the proper syntax is for a reference in dot notation when part of the reference is a concatination. I thought brackets were the correct way to implement this (as shown below) and that works in some parts of my movie, but not in this case.

["block"+r+c].iValue = 5;
Does not work

block52.iValue = 5;
This works

Any suggestions?

Thanks

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Loading Dynamic Text Into A Movie Clip
----Flash MX 2004 Pro----

I'm trying to load a text file from a server and put it in a dynamic text field. This works just fine, however, I put the dynamic text field in a movie clip with an instance named "_newsMC" and change the code to:

_newsMC.loadVariablesNum("http://www.mywebsite.com/news.txt",0);

but it doesn't work. Nothing happens at all. This code is placed in the first frame of the movie (but the actual dynamic text box itself shows up in the 2nd frame).

Anyone have any ideas?

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Hi Guys,

I am having troubles changing dynamic text within a movie clip.

OK. I have a movie clip on the main stage with an instance name 'spec', and within this instance is a movie clip 'modelID'. modelID is an instance of a dynamic text object also called modelID.

What I am trying to do is duplicate the instance 'spec' x amount of times and change the modelID text that is within the spec instance.
Below is the script that I am currently using.

function showPartContent() {
j = this["modelID"];
set("/spec" add j add "/modelID:modelID", this["modelID"]);
}
for (var i = 1; i<=_root.num_parts; i++) {

duplicateMovieClip("/spec", "spec" add i, i);
_root["spec"+i]._x = 320;
_root["spec"+i]._y = 275+(19*(i+1));

var d = new LoadVars();
d.onLoad = showPartContent;
d.ref_num = _root.ref_num;
// trace(c.ref_num);
d.sendAndLoad("part_get.php", d, "POST");
}

For some reason the dynamic text feild remains blank. Has anyone got an idea why this is the case.

Many thanks

Daniel

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Dynamic Text In A Movie Clip Scroll?
Hi Everyone:

I need help for creating a Movie Clip Scroll, with hidden buttons, a background and Access Database Texts.

I have the scroll from flashkit.com, but, I don't see the texts. Not is a problem from Action Scripts to show, is a problem from the scroll.

The codes are in the file, available in http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/In...-683/index.php

Will exist another form to put the dynamic texts in this scroll?, or maybe, will exist anther form to create a movie clip scroll, with the possibility to put the dynamic texts?.

I'm waiting any help, please.
Thanks.
Mayhem, Chile

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Help me pliz. I need to know how to control a dynamic text inside a movie clip. Illustrate it like. I have a scene, in my scene i have movie clip named "number" and movie clip named "controller". in "number" mc i had 1 dynamic text named "angka" and an invisible button.
i need to control "angka" from "controller" mc that scripted to " onclipevent(load) to random numbers and onclipevent(enter frame) supposed to change or refresh "angka" according to the randomly number.
hpe i explain it clearly and all of you can help me ASAP.
thx..

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Dynamic Text Box In Movie Clip Problem
Hi!
This has got me stumped - I bet it's easy to sort but I'm pretty new and clueless to this flash lark!

I want to press the button in my clip and the card to move up the screen and the number three to appear on it and travel with the card (bit like a rising playing card!)

The idea being to have 9 different buttons and when you press one of the buttons a different number appears on the card.......thought I'd try and do it with one number to start with BUT I CAN'T WORK IT OUT!

Help please!!

I'm using flash mx professional 2004

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hi there,

I have been trying to solve this issue for ages but with no luck... hopefully someone knows the answer?

I have a movie with a main stage movieclip... within this stage movieclip I have another contact movieclip...In this I have a flash php mailer which i want to animate down on button press. The problem is that the dynamic text fields for the movieclip dont show up when i publish the movie????

Does the contact form have to be on the main timeline and not in movieclips? Is there a way around this? Does anyone have a solution to this?

Hopefully someone can help

Hurley

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I cud use some help here...I kinda get what needs to be done here but can't quite figure it out.

I need to create a lot of buttons....each one is to animate when rolled over. basically, u roll over the button (which is text in a movie clip) and it slides to the right a bit and little arrow tweens to the right as well. the problem is that i dont want to have to recreate this button 30 times when i'm sure there is a way to do this dynamically.

i am skilled enuff that i can create a dynamic text field and populate it with text using script...the problem is that i have the dynamic text field inside a movie clip and when i animate it, it becomes a tween....so i am really confused as to how to script things in the main timeline.

help!

...thanks

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