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Links In Dynamic Textbox
Hello,

I have a dynamic textbox of which render as html is selected.I am passing the link from php to flash.

Problems:

1. I have to pass a link which includes the char "&" and this causes problems.(Ex: index.php?go=1&show=3)

2. I wand the text to be alined at center but i couldn't figure it how,choosing aling center at flash does not work. Also i tried to pass the variable including the <center></center> tags but no use.

I will be glad if you can help me.

Thanks for taking your time

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I'm guessing this may not be too difficult (?) - but I haven't done it before... anybody have any suggestions or perhaps template file for this?

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- Brian

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Hello,

I have created a dynamic text box that is HTML enabled and I import text to it from a .TXT file. Everything displays correctly: <b> tags are bold, <i> tags are italic and <a> tags link to another webpage.

My problem is that when I use an <a href> the link looks like the rest of the text instead of being underlined or blue or some sort of link delimiter.

I would love to use CSS but alas, I only have FlashMX, not MX2004.

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For example, if I have Click Here to view the Calendar of Events as a text link within a body paragraph in my movie, where would I put the Calendar of Events (separate frame, separate scene, nowhere) and how would I call it by just clicking on the link.

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I'm probably doing something really stupid and obvious, but have looked at my code again and again and can't figure out what it is.

Code:
imageinfo = new LoadVars();
imageinfo.load("http://localhost/scripts/header.php");
imageinfo.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
trace("Variables loaded!");
createEmptyMovieClip('_root.test', 1);
createEmptyMovieClip('_root.test2', 2);
_root.test._x = 0;
_root.test2._x = 234;
_root.test.loadMovie(_root.imageinfo.col1image1);
_root.test2.loadMovie(_root.imageinfo.col2image1);
} else {
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}
};
stop();
When I visit http://localhost/scripts/header.php in my web browser, I get a page full of variables from a PHP script I wrote:

"total=18&per_column=4&col1image1=img/header/18.jpg&col2image1=img/header/17.jpg&col3image1=img/header/16.jpg..."

So I know the PHP script is working, I'm fairly sure I've formatted the variables properly and I think my code's correct. But no matter what, I get this in my output:

Error opening URL "http://localhost/scripts/header.php"
Error loading variables.

I tried taking out the loop from within the function, but I still got the "error opening url" message. I tried reducing my variables to be simply "var=test", but still got the same message. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Hi.

here's what's happening:

myVars.send("myfile.asp") does not work.

however,

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Here is another quirk. If you submit this data 5 times, it opens 5 myfile.asp browser windows. but only the first 4 register in the database.

if you send this 7 times you get 7 open windows and only the first 6 register in the database.

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I'm just testing locally on windows XP. I have php and apache set up and it loads and parses scripts in the browser no problem. My actionscript is

Code:
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myVars.onLoad = function(success:Boolean):Void
{
if(success)
{
for(var prop in this)
trace("var: " + prop + " = " + this[prop]);
}
else
trace("Failed to load");
}

It always says Failed to load URL "http://localhost/test.php" however opening the php file in the browser works fine. All the php file does is echo "nick=Hysteresis".

I have toggled the local security settings in Ctrl+Shift+F12 from Local Access Only to Network Access Only but that didn't change anything. I can drop the http://localhost part and it will load fine, but then of course it is just reading the php file instead of parsing it.

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Code:
var myVars = new LoadVars();
myVars.load("http://localhost/test.php");
myVars.onLoad = function(success:Boolean):Void
{
if(success)
{
for(var prop in this)
trace("var: " + prop + " = " + this[prop]);
}
else
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}
It always says Failed to load URL "http://localhost/test.php" however opening the php file in the browser works fine. All the php file does is echo "nick=Hysteresis".

As I said, I can drop the http://localhost part and it will load fine, but then it is just reading the php file instead of parsing it.

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I own FLASH MX for about a month.
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Code:
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on (release) {
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</html>

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Has anyone seen this happen before? It's never happened to me before. Could it be a bug or something?

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I am using a dynamic text field rendered as HTML to make a list of links whitin a flash movie. I am using this code to generate the text with links:
ActionScript Code:
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var buysmall1_win:String="newwindow";
var buysmall1_features:String="width=1000, height=800, left=250, top=00, toolbar=0, location=0, directories=0, scrollbars=1, resizable=1, toolbar=1"
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}
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function buymedium1(myevent:MouseEvent):void {
var buymedium1_url:String="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=1749570"
var buymedium1_win:String="newwindow";
var buymedium1_features:String="width=1000, height=800, left=250, top=00, toolbar=0, location=0, directories=0, scrollbars=1, resizable=1, toolbar=1"
ExternalInterface.call("openwindow", buymedium1_url, buymedium1_win, buymedium1_features)
}
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var buylarge1_url:String="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=1749579"
var buylarge1_win:String="newwindow";
var buylarge1_features:String="width=1000, height=800, left=250, top=00, toolbar=0, location=0, directories=0, scrollbars=1, resizable=1, toolbar=1"
ExternalInterface.call("openwindow", buylarge1_url, buylarge1_win, buylarge1_features)
}
large1_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buysmall1)

function viewcart1(myevent:MouseEvent):void {
var viewcart1_url:String="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_xpressCheckout.gif"
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ActionScript Code:
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