Flash :: Scrambled Letters When Exporting...HELP

Scrambled AS?
Hey all,

Something strange happened to me today that I've never had happen before with Flash MX in all the years I've been using it. Last night I spent a few hours creating a first version of an XML importer for a game I'm working on and when I opened the fla back up tonight, the AS that I had written looked like it had been cut-n-pasted in bits and pieces all over the place. Everything wound up being there but chunks were moved all around.

After an hour of reconstructing the code from the jumbled mess, I got it all working again. Now I'm afraid it's gonna happen again

Has anyone else ever experienced anything like this?

Scrambled Font
I have my into page set up for our site. When I test it in the player it works fine. When I upload it as the index page and the page loads. The words are all scrambled. Also I want to know if there is any way to create a redirect from this page to another.

Scrambled Sound Output
Experts...

I recorded some looping background music and saved it as a .wav file, only to find that when I use it in Flash it ends up becoming scrambled?

It seems to play the first few bars ok but then it begins to sound like its almost repeating itself.

This is what I have already tried...

- save as a mp3 from the source and re-import/publish - same result
- played around withe the publishing settings - same result

Also - if I play it on the timeline it sounds fine - its only the published version that messes up. Anyone 'heard' of this before and can suggest a fix?

Many thanks...

Mike

Mac’s Display Of My HTML Scrambled. Help URGENTLY
I’m not even sure what information to provide. So read my message, maybe you can ask me the right questions, so I can give the right info.

I created a website, both Flash and HTML, on a windows system and uploaded it onto the internet. It sometimes works fine on the customer’s computer, but sometimes it just throws out this scrambled text. It does this with just one page now, but I never changed anything that could trigger such an action. On all windows systems it works well, except on that specific mac. Thanks a million in advance for the fellow that is able to help me out.

Convert The Letters To Lowercase ONLY If They Are Actually Letters, Not Numbers?
I have a glitch with this line of code:

one_array.toLowerCase();

in a dynamic input textbox. If the string includes a "!" it becomes a "1" .

Is there a way to only convert the letters to lowercase if they are actually letters - not numbers or punctuation? Do I have to write a line of code for each character, or is there an easier way to do it?

Replacing Letters With Other Letters
I am trying to make a simple encryption tool and i was wondering how i could use code to replace text, with somewthing totally different!

Transforming Letters To Letters..? Is It Possible?
do you guys know if its possible to transform letters into a different letter because i'm sorta stuck thx for your help

Scrollbox Text And Links "scrambled"
I've created a little "how to" piece in Flash MX, published to mac/pc projectors and burned to a CD with autorun. Within the piece, two of the swfs that are called with loadMovie actions have text in scrollboxes. Several words of that scroll text have links on them to video clips embedded in other swfs. I used the asFunction action--to link the text with the video clips swfs called with loadMovie actions. The whole thing looks and works fine on PC, but on a Mac iBook with OS9, the scrolltext is a mess--all "scrambled" with the asFunction link text bunched together at the top. As well, the scroll bar doesn't work.

Is this because the machine simply doesn't have enough memory/processor power or high enough OS to run the thing (though it plays everything except the scroll box, albeit slowly...), or is this a problem with Mac/OS 9 being able to support asFunction actions or something else?

Thanks so much in advance for any help.

Scrollbox Text "scrambled"
I've created a little "how to" piece in Flash MX, published to mac/pc projectors and burned to a CD with autorun. Within the piece, two of the swfs that are called with loadMovie actions have text in scrollboxes. Several words of that scroll text have links on them to video clips embedded in other swfs. I used the asFunction action--to link the text with the video clips swfs using loadMovie actions. The whole thing looks and works fine on PC, but on a Mac iBook with OS9, the scrolltext is a mess--all "scrambled" with the asFunction links bunched together at the top. As well, the scroll bar doesn't work.

Is this because the machine simply doesn't have enough memory/processor power or high enough OS to run the thing (though it plays everything except the scroll box, albeit slowly...), or is this a problem with Mac/OS 9 being able to support asFunction actions or something else?

Thanks so much in advance for any help.

Exporting Image Created With Flash.. Overlaying Image With Text Then Exporting As Jpg
Is this possible? Say I have a user insert certain text onto a image using flash which would not be hard, but then is it possible to export the image as a jpeg for the user to download? The seems impossible but I figured it might be possible.

I Need To Know How Much Letters
help!!!
I need to know how much letters are into a specific line of a dynamic text string...for exampe:
FirstString = .....lenght;
SecondString= .....lenght;
etc....

Letters And ASP
I have a strange problem.
I'm working on this website where we combinate Flash and ASP.
Everything is working fine, except that we can't use the special letter for the norwegian language.
On the other way we can "hardcode" it in flash and it's working there. We can set a variabel with these letters, and it's working. But we get problems when we read from the ASP script.

Here is some of the code.
function getnewsText()
{
var n = new LoadVars();
n.newsheading = nyhetvalg;
var m = new LoadVars();
m.onLoad = getResponse;
n.sendAndLoad("news/maintext.asp", m, POST);
}

Anyone who have had that problem?
I'm pretty confused and I'm not shure that the problem is in the Flash file or the asp script file.
It's seems that is working both places but not together.

I hope somebody can help me.

Remi

'dot Letters' Ö Å Ä MX
Hi
Odd question for those who write in english but when i import text from a .txt file
onClipEvent (load) {
this.loadVariables("pajala.txt");
the 'dot letters' ä ä ö shows as boxes http://ullvitorget.koping.se/~JTR/test/pajala.swf
When i write text in actionscript there is no problem? Why?
// Roland

Using Letters
I need the code to make it so when I press "w" something happens.

Submiting Letters
I want to make an internet site where my friends can get to write on a flash interface so whatever they write appears on the page, like writing open letters or something like that.. do you know what i mean?? It's kinda like this i'm doing right now, i write this thread and it gets published.... PLEASE!!!! someone :-)

Shaking Some Letters.....
Hi

I'm trying to have a bunch of random letters in a circle. You can grab this circle and move about the screen - which makes the letters look like there being shaken....but what i've done is very rigid....the letters follow the circle to but it hasn't got a random like feel......any help would be appreciated.

thanks

What Do The Letters SWF Stand For Exactly?
A simple query. I know that it is the flash file format.
Does it stand for scalable web format?
Thanks in advance Sebastian

Test For Cap Letters
is there any way to test if a particular substring is a capital letter? I would rather not do 26 if else statements....

thanks

? Spanish Letters ?
Hi, i need to use spanish letters (some of them have minor drawings above them).
Do i put them inside the "Embed Fonts" in the "text options" window and that will do?

Thanks in advance,
Maya.

Shuffle Letters
Hi all!

I have a variable = "REFERENCER".
I want to have each letter to shuffle around randomly at the
same time. After a certain amount of time, each letter ends with the right letter. (REFERENCER).

It should be something like this example, but only the letters should change at the same time.

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Effec...32/index.shtml

Scandinavian Letters
This time I have a big problem. I am loading text dynamicaly from a *.txt file. This i ok. The problem is when I type any "scandinavian letters" like Æ Ø or Å they appear as squares in the text-field. I really want to have this letters because not everybody who is reading my page can speak English.

Is this possible? I am sure our asian friends has the same problem..?

Is there a way to work around this?

Happy flashing, Metaman

My .TXT Does Not Show Some Letters
ok guys here it is.
i all ready know how to load a .txt file into a dinamic textfield in flashMX. The thing is that i´m trying to load a spanish peace of text that has some á,é,í,ó,ú and the Ñ letters. When i upload the .txt file, it does not show those letters in my movie.

Thank you guys, i going nuts with this little problem.

Jagged Letters
How can I make my text look more smooth? Even when I have it set as Static Text it looks jagged.

Random Letters?
Is there away to get random letters? I know there are for numbers, but unsure of letters.

I am trying to get text to reveal itself as it does in:

http://www.thisdotcomtaken.com/v5/main_load.html

A group of numbers and letters changing at the fps speed and then magically spells out the word. Each time is random in which letter stops first, so I'm figuring that each 'letter space' of the word would have a random value of how many times to go through the loop until it equals the appropriate letter. Is that the best way?

But it still comes down to me being stuck about how to get a random letter.

any help would be much apprecaited.

ty

Moving With Letters
Hey there everyone... I just have one quick little question. Ok, so you know how you can move things with the arrow keys right?

if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)){
_root.blah._x+=1;
}

well, how in gods name would you do this for a letter? Like the "w". Thanks in advance.

Writing Letters
Hi,

I've seen many times the cool effect as if someone is writing a text in flash.You can see how the letters are written. Can anyone tell me how I can do that? It has to be realistic though :-)

Thanks in advance
Greetings
Camme

Expanding Letters
I have a movie which duplicates to animate letters falling from the sky and spelling a word. However, the last bit of the animation scales the letter by 400% to make it more readable but when I do this the letters all end up overlapping each other. I could increase the _x gap between them during the duplication loop but then the animations widen out off the stage. So the question is, how do I adjust the _x value of the final resting place using the loop variable from the duplication script? Whatever I seem to do seems to do nothing!
Thanks!
Ig

Counting Letters
I need to know if it is possible to count letters in groups of five when a user is typing in a input box.

Inflating Letters
i am having great difficulty trying to get letters to appear as though they are being inflated with air. i would like inflating sounds to go with it if possible.....can any of you "swish masters" plese help me out with this one???

any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

thanks in advance
Scott

Strange Letters
i am from sweden.... and i want to insert text from a .txt to a dynamic textfield. in the txt it says:

hej jag är jonas bla bla bla bla

and ä is not shown (here we have strange letters).

please help... it is enoying that flash isn´t international....

thanks
/black_emperor

Mirrored Letters
Hey Guys!

I have some strange thing going on with my Flash Movie (I made it with Swish). When I put my file online (as intro on a site) the letters of the intro are mirrored, turned, ...

You can see it here: http://www.thescreen.be

When I play the file on my PC everything is fine.

How can I solve this?? Thx..

Japanese Letters
I have a client from Japan who needs some Japanese Lettering. Can anybody tell me where to find them?

Thanx
CobyCo

Space Between Letters
Hi all...

Anyone knows how to change the space between letters (kerning) of a dynamic text?

I've tried doing it with AS but no way. I know it can be done for static text, but for dynamic... sometimes flash is so illogical and confusing.

Regards

How To Get The Letters Show Up
Hi how do I get these letters to show up in my movie there parts of letters that needs to be in a word.
é,à,â,ç
These letters are part of the french language, and when I look at my movie there missing in the words, and withought them the word makes no sense, hope you guys understand what I mean

Hey Cool Letters How ?
hey take a look at this site, Julian Valencia
now in the showroom section i want to learn how to make does cool letter fall down in 3d any examples, tutorials or something ?? thanks

Fuzzy Letters
Most of the time when I use Arial anti-aliased font at 10px, it turns fuzzy when I play the movie. Anyone know what causes this, and/or how to stop it from happening, because it's getting really annoying with the site I'm working on.

How To Cutout Letters?
I want to cutout some text so light can shine through from the back. Create a rectangle the same color as the background, put text on it and then cutout the letters. Make a layer underneath with a motion tween of white light scrolling across.
I can do everything except get holes for the text..??
Thanks

How To Count Letters
Hi

how do i count letters in at textbox with actionscript ?

Flickering Letters
I was wondering how I would go about getting the letters of a word to all flicker and appear at different times and then eventually stop and just have the word.
*hope this makes sense.

Drawing Letters With AS
I hope someone can help me with this.

I am using Flash 8, and what I want to do is for a few letters (like "Heart") to be drawn automatically, somewhat slowly, as if someone was drawing them with a pen when you are watching.

I am an AS novice, but as far as I have figured out from reading through tutorials on several sites, lineTo can be used to draw a line, and setInterval can be used to control the speed at which the line will be drawn. But I have no idea how to use them to get what I want.

A big thanks to anyone who can help me!

[F8] Mixing Letters
I'm trying to build a function that can pull a word from an array and mix all the letter up in it randomly. (i.e. one, neo, eno, etc). So far I was just using a random number generator to choose a number 0 through the length of the string and then using an array to keep track of which numbers I've used and then just waiting for the random function to hit all the char indexes in the string before stopping. I'm sure there is an easier way to do this. Does anyone have any suggestions, my code currently resembles below:

Code:
// prebuilt stage object are a button called "btn" and a textbox called "myBox"

var myString:String = new String("john"); // the string to mix up
var usedChars:Array = new Array(); // the used Character array
var counter:Number = new Number(); // position counter - track letters used

btn.onPress = function() {
onEnterFrame = function () { // using onEnterFrame for cont. run
if (_root.counter<_root.myString.length) {
scrambleWords();
} else {
//delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
};
};

function randRange(min:Number, max:Number):Number {
var randomNum:Number = Math.floor(Math.random()*(max-min+1))+min;
return randomNum;
}

function scrambleWords() {
for (i=0; i<_root.myString.length; i++) {
var myNum = _root.randRange(0, _root.myString.length-1);
for (h=0; h<_root.myString.length; h++) {
if (_root.usedChars[h] != myNum) {
trace(usedChars + " : " + myNum + " : " + counter);
_root.counter++;
myBox.text += _root.myString.charAt(myNum);
_root.usedChars[h] = myNum;
} else {
trace("number already exists");
}
}
}
}

Thanks for any help or advice.

Scandinavian Letters
I have an external file, which includes variables. Values includes scandinavian letters ö and ä. But when the values should show in text fields the scandinavian letters don´t show properly instead they are replaced with squares.

How could I get them to work?

Random Letters
I do not know what exactly I am doing wrong.
I use the onload to create the text boxs
then onEnterFrame to make the text boxs random letters.
but yet mangrove2 doesn't detect anything trying to tell it to change its text.

I am forgetting something?

ActionScript Code:
var alphabet = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
var name1 = "Gal";
onLoad = function() {
texter();
}
onEnterFrame = function() {
randomize();
mangrove2.text = Sub2
}
function randomize() {
Sub2 = alphabet.substr(random(26),1)
}

function texter() {
for(i=0;i<name1.length;i++ ){
var mangrove2 = createTextField("message2"+i,getNextHighestDepth(),Stage.width/2,Stage.height/2,20,20)
mangrove2.autoSize = "right"
mangrove2.border = true;
mangrove2.bold = true;
mangrove2.borderColor = 0x00FF00;
mangrove2.type = "dynamic";
mangrove2.selectable = false;
mangrove2.multiline = false;
mangrove2.wordWrap = false;
mangrove2._x = 10 * i
}
}

might as well ask while I am asking this

mangrove2.onEnterFrame = function
why doesn't it work?

How To Get The First 3 Letters Of A String?
If my string ="Mappaint", how can I have flash just look for "Map" or "Ma" ?
Thanks

What Are The Key Numbers For Letters.
could some1 show me a list of key numbers for the letters

Letters Are Cutoff
Hi all,
I have a problem with letters that are cut off by flash when changing browser size.
I'm using Stage.showAll to stretch the SWF to fit the browser window. It happens not only when scaling the browser window, but also when using different screen resolutions, mostly with the letters g and y.
Please help!!