Scrollbar With Dynamic Text Field?
I have a dynamic text field, multi-line. I have attached a scrollbar component to it via drag and drop.It is empty but gets text dumped into it via AS's appendText() method when the user clicks a button.It works, but if there are more lines than what fits into the text field, the scroll bar does not "activate", and allow the user to scroll to see all of it.I'm sure I am missing something simple here, can anyone please help. Thanks.
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Posted on: 11/25/2008 01:11:11 PM
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Need some help with the following.
I'm using Flash MX on Windows Platform.
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I created a txt document and then a dynamic text field and then I placed the loadvar in the frame and everything worked great.
I wanted to make it scrollable so I added the Scroll Bar component and gave my Dynamic text field an instance name and told the scroll bar what it was, but when I test the movie the scroll bar does not work, and there's plenty of text to scroll.
What else do I need to do to make it work?
Assigning A Scrollbar To A Dynamic Text Field
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Dynamic Text Field And Scrollbar Prob
got my dynamic text field going and reading a text file ok. Then I attach a scrollbar component to it and it all looks fine...
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anyone know why?
P.S. When I change it to input text and type stuff in it starts to scroll, but that's no good.
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hello,
i would like to create a scrollbar for a dynamic textfield but do not want to use the common component.
i found this script:
http://www.flashdesignerzone.com/tutorials/t1033.php
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regards,
.d
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Hi, i was wondering how to make a movieclip - loader
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I have been trying for ages, but cant get it working.
Help Me :)
Martin
PS. if you could make me a .fla for me to download it would be helpful
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Hello there,
Has anyone beat this problem?
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window.onload=function()
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Here's what I'm working on:
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mc with a dynamic text field, scrollbar.
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consequently, i need it to fade out when the mouse rolls out.
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after much trial and error and still having troubles i thought i would ask people that maybe know what there doing.
Im using Flash 8 pro, and have placed textarea component on stage and gave it an instantce name, need to pull a single record from a record database using asp.
This is my approach but if there is an even easier way let me know.
I have created the following pages.
webpage.asp (end result web page that shows the text field to user)
script.asp( asp script that sends data back/forth to flash
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%>
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I have one problem with my new scrollbar in AS3. I made one of like this scrollbar from this URL http://flashmymind.com/Tutorials/Actionscript/Advanced/scrollbar.php
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Please answer quickly, the project´s deadline is pretty near..
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PHP Code:
for(i=0; i<=4; i++) {
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["order_"+ i]text = "First";
trace("first");
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trace("Fourth");
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}
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";
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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
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EASY Easy mode
VERYEASY Very easy mode
SPUNKJOCKEY New death animation
SEXYMANN Birdy & Squirrel scene
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PRINCEALBERT Barn Boys
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ANCHOVYBAY Slopranos
MONKEYSCHIN Uga Buga
SPANIELSEARS Spooky
BEELZEBUBSBUM It's War
CHOCOLATESTARFISH The Heist
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BILLYMILLROUNDABOUT Gregg the Grim Reaper
CHINDITVICTORY Weasel Henchmen
EATBOX Cavemen
RUSTYSHERIFFSBADGE Sergeant and Tediz Leader
BEEFCURTAINS Zombies and Villagers
Dynamic Text Field Receiving Dynamic Variables...
or something like that . . .
This is my problem: I'm generating _global variables via XML. Each variable represents different types of copy, of varying lengths. For Example:
_global.introduction = xmlDoc_xml.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue;
_global.body = xmlDoc_xml.firstChild.firstChild.firstChild.nodeVa lue;
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is null
=null
!=null
=undefined
is undefined
!=undefined
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i'm a major newbie at this, so here goes.
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Here are links to the files that you can download and take a look (I would SO appreciate it!!)
http://www.geocities.com/tarambuehner/playing.fla
http://www.geocities.com/tarambuehner/ramblings.txt
Thanks for lending me your expertise and time.
Tara
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Dynamic Text With Scrollbar
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Scrollbar On Dynamic Text
sorry if this is an ongoing question from newbs or not
Ive used the scrollbar component on a dyn text box and it works fine when i test the scene, but when i test the whole movie the scrollbar doesnt work. It is greyed out.
I have no idea why this is happening. Any suggestions?
I even tried making my own through various tutorials but got lost pretty fast.
thanx in advance
Scrollbar, Dynamic Text
Hey,
I've got a system setup where you can visit a PHP page and it will get some text from a database and display it in a little flash area. It's great, except....
I have put a Dynamic text box and a standard-issue flash scroll bar together. But, guess what, it doesn't work. I've read that it doesn't work straight off with dynamic text like this. So how would I make it work? I presume some fancy actionscript!
Many thanks,
Ben
Scrollbar For Dynamic Text.
I'm looking for a nice scrollbar (component maybe) for dynamic text. I've been using the FFH Text Scrollbar component for a while as well as the UI Scrollbar Component. Both are good (FFH ligher in size).
I'm looking for a scrollbar that doesn't dynamicly scale the scroller in the middle though.
I have seen some like this for dynamic text on some websites but never have been able to find one (or figure out how to write one).
Scrollbar With Dynamic Text
I was wondering if anybody here had any idea how to make a scrollbar that would scroll text in a dynamic text box that loaded a text file... I can't really find any tutorials anywhere that are specifically for that, and even when I do they either assume you know too much or they have a lot of bugs in them. I started with the scrollbar tutorial from kirupa.com and finished it successfully, but I could not figure out how to get it to work correctly with dynamic text.
help would be appreciated, thanks.
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