Flash :: Some More Scrollin' Inside A Text Box Problems :-D

Scrollin Text & Pics Together
Last edited by choong : 2006-06-06 at 02:21.

hi everyone im a newbie to flash pro 8 and i desperatly need help!! i really need to make a content box with text and pictures together in a scrollable box, please look at this example: http://www.swaydasafo.com/index.cfm

or: http://www.amerie.net/site.html ( please look at video page)

ive tried so many places to find a tutorial but i cant seem to find one with scrolling text and images together.
im lookin for a nice simple tutorial. So any advice or help is much appreaciated. Thanx so much guys!

Scrollin Text Field
Hello,
i just found out how to make a little scrolling text field but i really dont like it i would like for it to fit in my site like at Aisgrafiks because i am goin to be opening it in a pop up window thanks this is what it looks like now http://www.pnsdesigns.com/delano/elements_Services.swf
thanks in advanced

Scrollin Text For Song Playback
well hellpo plp.I want to know how would i be able to show the name of a song scrolling with this component.Also how would i use pixel fonts.
thnx in advance.~_^

heres da file:http://www.rolandschaer.ch/downloads/FSound110.zip

Scrollin
How do you use buttons to control a movie?

For example, i want to have two simple buttons that control the scrolling (an 'up' and a 'down'). You press 'up' and the movie moves up, 'down' and the movie moves down.

I know how to do this with dynamic text, but i need to do it with a movie.

Movieclip Scrollin
I would like to make a a scrollbar on the side that i can use to scroll a movieclip... the scrollbar would be of my own design with my own scroller and scrollbar... the arrows on the top and bottom aren't needed... anybody help?

Scrollin Buttons
ok i have created a scroll bar containing buttons but i cannot get the buttons to do anything because they are in a scroll bar. i have assigned code but nothing is happening, is this because they are within a movie clip?does anyone no a solution or how to get buttons to work?!
Thanks

Assistance With Scrollin Nav AS3
hola a tod@s,

i am working on a flash project. there is swf with a side nav that when clicked will load and external swf. the swf that is load should have a scrolling nav that when mouse hovers it it should stop. now, when a button/image of the loaded swf is clicked the parent swf should also reflect what button is active. so, i am not able to pull the script to so. thus far i can only do the rollover and the load external swf.

attached is the fla file. any assistance will be apreciated.

toxicNerv

Attached Files

Image Scrollin Problem
Hey, am new to this board and am a bit of a beginner, but i'm working on a project that i want to work similar to the Spooks game on the bbc site. Not the whole thing, just the image scroll movement in the main desk area.

here: BBC Spooks Game

Have asked for advice on Newstoday, but apart from one post, all i got were sarcastic replies. This was created for me by a guy on the board:

Actionscript

Have managed to implement it so it works when i preview it in flash, but when i insert it into my html the image just zooms off the top of the page never to appear again.

I also can't get different layers to move at different speeds!

Is doing my nut in! As i say i am a beginner, so if its too complicated just tell me, but i really would appreciate any help anyone can give me!

Cheers

Keep My Man Walkin And My Background Scrollin
hey guys back again!

right now my character stops advancing across the screen when he reaches 1/3 of the stage width. However, he stops animating when i need him to keep animating so it looks like hes continuing to walk.

Also, i've got the background scrolling by placing a command to reduce the _x value of the mc inside the function that tells the guy to walk but obviously that stops scrolling when the alien stops walking.

its setup like this:

if((Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)==true)&&(myChar.getX()<= Stage.width/3)){
myChar.mov("right");
myBackground._x -= 5;
}//end if right

I know why he doesn't keep animating when he reaches 1/3 the stage width - because I tell him not to since his animation is part of the .mov function. But i just don't know any other way to code this.

if anyone needs the full .fla just let me know and i'll upload it straight away.

Can anyone help?

thanks

pete

Scrollin Thumbnails Problem
I built a bunch of thumbnail buttons that through LoadMovie were placed on the _root stage into an empty movie clip. They worked perfect. I ran out of room on the stage so I built one of those infinite scrolling thumbnail bars. which is a movie clip with the buttons inside it. Now the buttons don't do flop. I've tried everything.

I also havw bits of code everywhere when I really only want it on the main time line. How can I do this?

heres the code slider:

onClipEvent(load) {
nScreenWidth = 1024;
nMaxRate = 15;
function moveLeft(nPixels) {
this._x -= nPixels;
if (this._x < 0-nScreenWidth) {
this._x = 0;
}
}
function moveRight(nPixels) {
this._x += nPixels;
if (this._x > 0) {
this._x = 0-nScreenWidth;
}
}
}

onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
if (_root._xmouse < nScreenWidth/2 && _root._xmouse > 0) {
moveRight(nMaxRate - _root._xmouse * nMaxRate/(nScreenWidth/2));
} else {
if (_root._xmouse > nScreenWidth/2 && _root._xmouse < nScreenWidth) {
moveLeft(_root._xmouse * nMaxRate/(nScreenWidth/2) - nMaxRate);
}
}
}

heres the buttton code:

stop()
j-livethumb.onRelease = function() {
empty.loadMovie( "j-live.swf" );
};

where j-livethumb is the instance name for the button that has an over up and hit state.
help.

Scrollin-Sujit-4358 Scroller Help
Please someone help?

I installed and got working, the Scrollin-Sujit-4358 scroller. In the Scrollin-Sujit-4358 Folder .fla, there is only one frame. I need more than one frame to play the movie I put it in. The swf works if I add frames, but the HTML version doesn't show the scroller at all.

TIA!!!
K

Scrollin - Frame Wise - Urgent Help Plz.
hi

i want a movie to scroll frame wise i.e there will be a scroll bar just like the one on the browser and when u click the arrow button the movie should scroll frame wise. and like wise if u drag the middle bar again the movie shoul scroll depending on the direction of the scroll.

i dont want to make a movie clip and drag its _x axis this wont work cause i have sound files in the movie, so it should scroll by frame only.

some 1 plz. kindly help me ASAP. and give me the code for the scroll bar (frame scrolling).

thankx
bari

Mouse Position Scrollin MC .. Please Advise
ok.. peep http://www.steelskin.com/ssv2 and note the flash scrolling file in the middle..

ok what i want to do is set the MC to scroll up slowly unless the mouse is over the MC, in which case the mouse y-pos scrolling would take effect..

I haven't messed with this for awhile so I could use the help..
I can provide the FLA if anyone wants to peep..

Tweening External Dynamic Text Inside A MC Inside Main Timeline
I've seen a hundred and a half posts on similar subjects, but goshdarnit, I just can't make this work. Let me explain the problem, and I've included a link to a Zip file with my .fla file and the away.txt file I'm calling the variables from.

Basically, I want to create an interactive menu thing, that starts with a row of each of the 26 letters of the alphabet. When one clicks on a letter, the letter is tweened to a larger faded state, and so is the rest of the alphabet, and I want the names of the schools starting with that letter to then fade in. I have a movie clip inside the last frame of the main tween, which should then tween (fade in over 12 frames) the graphic symbol containing my dynamic text box, which is supposed to be linked to the text variables in the external file. The text variable is created on the first frame of the main timeline using Actionscript on the static header layer, and so I should be able to load it inside my movie clip (I think). Everything looks fine to me, but then I've only been using Flash for 2 weeks.

To sum up, I need to tween the graphic symbol. The graphic symbol contains the dynamic text which references the external text file. The graphic symbol is inside a movie clip, inside one frame of my main timeline. The text isn't showing up, only the empty text box is.

My Zipped source files can be found at: http://www.tolcs.org/athletics/away.zip

If anyone would be willing to download my source files and give some wonderful advice, I'd revere and adore them forever.

How Can I Clear Inside Input Text When I Click Inside
How can i clear text inside "input Text" when i click inside
thank's
David K.

How To Stop Text Floating To Right Side Of An Image Inside A Dynamic Text Field
Hi

I have dynamic text field that loads in a txt file containing
html formatted text including an embedded image.
When I test the movie the text that should appear bellow
the image, instead, runs down the right side of the image.

I have tried adding various html attributes including -

Code:
 <img src="image.gif" /> 
I have also tried attaching a style sheet and appying the
following class -

Code:
img.allClear {
clear: all;
}
and also redefining the image tag -

Code:
img {
clear: all;
}
None of witch have worked.

Can someone help with this please.

Regards Mydogmax

Long Text Doesn't Fit Inside Single-line Input Text Field
Hi, I've been browsing these forums for a long time but this is my first post.

I'm creating an interface by which a user can design and order their own customized decal. Please see my example (I've added my script at the bottom of this post):
http://www3.sympatico.ca/sin.young/decaldesigner.html

My issues are:

1. I've set the character limit to 21, but if you were to type in 21 "W"s into the input field for whatever reason, or choose a wider font, the text shifts to the left and some of the characters become hidden as they don't all fit. I'd like to make the width of the text to always fit inside of the width of the white area. I can't figure out how to make this work.

Here's an example that does pretty much what I'm trying to describe: www.stickerjunkie.com.

2. I have the Standard Colors combo box working perfectly but can't seem to get the Fonts combo box working.

Any hints or links to actionscript tutorials/help that might be useful to my predicament is extremely appreciated.

// display colors and formatting
decalColor = new Color(decal);
color1 = new Color(decalColor);
//
function changeColor(comp) {
decalColor.setRGB(comp.getSelectedItem().data);
}
//Standard Colors array
standardcolors = [{label:'STANDARD COLORS'},
{label:'White', data:0xffffff},
{label:'Black', data:0x000000},
{label:'Silver', data:0x9c9c9c},
{label:'Gray', data:0x636b73}];

collistStandard.setDataProvider(standardcolors);
collistStandard.setSelectedIndex(0);
collistStandard.setChangeHandler('changeColor');
//
//Fonts array
myfonts = [{label:'FONTS'},
{label:'Arial', data:'Arial'},
{label:'Serpentine', data:'Serpentine'},
{label:'Enviro', data:'Enviro'},
{label:'Forte', data:'Forte'}];

fontlist.setDataProvider(myfonts);
fontlist.setSelectedIndex(0);
fontlist.setChangeHandler('');

Changing Text Inside A Text Field, Bold/Italic/Underline Ect ...
Is it possible to change the appearance of text inside a text field, like say to bold, italic, underline, color and even a type of font if need be ... ?

Example:

Like say you have text field, and you have some option buttons, (bold/italic/underline/color/type-of-font) that when clicked on will dynamicaly change the text/font appearance in the text field.

Any tutorials on this matter, anyone know ?

Streching A Text Box Area To Match The Exact Size Of The Text Inside.
Is there a way to strech the width of the text area (without distorting it) to match exactly the size of the dynamic text on it?

I'm sure a lot of stumbled upon this once...

Thanks in advance!

Antialias Text With Variable Text Inside Flash Authoring Environment?
Here's the code I'm using, and the question I have is after the code.

<code>
if (_root.button == 1){
mytext = "Available: {Available} ";
} else if (_root.button == 2){
mytext = "Price: {Price} ";
} else if (_root.button == 3){
mytext = "button 3{button_3} ";
} else if (_root.button == 4){
mytext = "button 4{button4} ";
} else {
mytext = "Zoning: {Zoning} ";
}
</code>

P.S.
These brackets "{}" are used for Generator variables that get pulled in from an access database.

So my question is this...

Is it possible to get this text to show up antialiased in my dynamic text field?

I've already tried to publish the movie with the text field option set to "EMBED ENTIRE FONT", and the only thing that shows up is the data coming from the database... the text that is already embeded in the variable does not show up.

Am I doing something wrong in my code?

any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanx.
-fourfold

Setting A Text Box's Text Property That Is Inside A Duplicated Movie Clip?
How do you set a text box's property that is inside a dynamically duplicated movie clip?

for instance:
I have several duplicated movie clips (mc1, mc2, mc3, etc...) which were duplicated off a movie clip named "mc" and I was wondering how you set a text box's property that is inside one of those duplicated movie clips.

I don't know how many of these movie clips there are, or I would just use a for() or while() loop.

I hope I've explained this clearly, but I think I just confused everybody.
Furry

Page 2 - Long Text Doesn't Fit Inside Single-line Input Text Field
Truth hurts doesn't it.

BOOM!

Load Text From Text File, INSIDE A Movie Clip...
Hi, I'm making this website, and I want to have a news section on it, and therefore I have to load some text from an external text file. This works fine when I try it out in a new, blank movie, but on my page, I have to have the whole Text Field inside an MC, and this is where it all goes wrong....
Nothing shows up at all when I do exactly the same in the MC as I do on the mainstage...

I don't blame u if you didn't understand what I was talking about

Hope someone has an answer!!

Thomas

Loading Text From A Database Into A Text File Inside A Movieclip
Okay. I have a movie clip with two frames. Inside frame 1 is a text box named "home_copy". The mc in which this textbox resides is given an instance name of "copy". Frame 2 has a different text box (we'll worry about this after solving probelm 1.)

So I'm using loadVariables so that the site is compatible with old browsers.

The PHP file I'm grabbing has this at the end:
Code:
&home_copy=Welcome to EROS. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. etc.
So how do I get my php source code to go into the text box, "home_copy", which is embedded into a movieclip, named "copy".

thanks

Setting The Height Of The Dynamic Text To Automatically Fit The Text Inside.
Well i have a dynamic text box that loads an external text file. I want the dyn. text box to automatically re-adjust the height so that it will fit the text. Is there anyway to do this without distorting the text?

The HTML Text Field Won't Center The Text Inside... Why?
Hello there,

The thing is: I have a HTML text field in my movie that loads a variable from a txt file. I set in the text field paragraph option the 'center' mode.

Ok, it should work fine, but it doesn't... The text loads fine, but it starts in the left side of the field and not in the center as wanted.

I tried to put HTML center tags in the txt like:

Code:
&text=<center><a href="http://www.link.com">This is my text</a></center>
and:

Code:
&text=<div align=center><a href="http://www.link.com">This is my text</a></div>
Both options didn't work as well.

Is there a way to do that or I'll just have to let the HTML aside and use regular dynamic text fields?

Thanks in advance and sorry for the 'ingrish'

Adding Hyperlinks To Text Inside Scrolling Text Box
I'd like to add a few links to the text inside a scrolling text box. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Edit Moved to Actionscript! -SJT ]

Clickable Text Inside Multiline Text Field
Hi there,

I have a movie with a dynamic multiline text field, and want each line of the text to be clickable. The text is put into the text field from a script, and I am using HTML formatting to make the text clickable, as in

mytextfield = "<a href="http://www.domain.com"> + string + "</a>";

However, I don't actually want my clickable text to go to URLs, I want it to run some ActionScript, but I can't figure out if it is possible. Basically what I want to do is something like this

mytextfield = "<a href="_root.gotoAndPlay(4)"> + string + "</a>";

Maybe I'm going about it the wrong way, but I can't find any advice on how to make clickable text in a text field which triggers an ActionScript command.

Hope you can help - Sam

Dynamic Text Inside Text Input Boxes?
I have a website project I'm working on where content is entered into input boxes in Flash and then I use PHP and MySQL to store the text and display it on the main part of the Flash site. Site users will use the same input boxes for edit the text, so I would like, if there is currently text in db, for it to show up inside the input box as well when they go to change it. I am not much of an Actionscript coder, so I am using mostly scripts that I found on the internet. I have a script for pulling info from the db and displaying it inside a dynamic text box in Flash, and another script for taking the text from the input box and sending it to the database. Both of these snippets of code work fine when I use them in other places on the site. When I use them together, however, the text from the db displays inside the input box just fine, but when I change it and hit Submit to change the text, instead of entering the text I wrote it enters the word 'undefined' and this is what shows up in the text box from that point forth. Does anyone have any idea what I need to do to make the 'output' code work with the 'input' code? Here is the code as I'm using it:

Code:
//this section pulls the text from the db, it seems to work just fine
myData = new LoadVars()
myData.ref = this
myData.load("wp_getdata.php")
myData.onLoad = function(success){
if(success){
in_col1_title.text = this.col1_title
}
}

//this section sends the text from the input box to the database. It works fine when used by itself, but submits the word 'undefined' when used with the above code
var php_process:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
send_button.onRelease = function() {
_root.col1_title_popup._visible = false;
var post_variable:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
post_variable.string1t = in_col1_title.text;
post_variable.sendAndLoad("wp_connect_col1_title.php",php_process,"POST");
getURL("javascript:window.location.reload(true);");
};

Formatting Text Inside A Dynamic Text Box
I am allowing clients to use notepad to update information on thier site. I just wondered the best way to set up that notepad file so that the text can be formatted.

Here is an example:

http://www.bushidodesigns.net/fc/dyn...ox/example.htm

Should I just set the file up as a html doc. (in notpad) and then just explain to my client how to use that? This is starting to be my biggest problem over all my clients. Something I need to figure out fast!!!!

Thnaks
- ZG

Scrolling Text Inside Text Fields?
Hi, i work in a technology company and require if it possible to have scrolling text animate within a text field. So you would'nt actualy animate the field itself only the text would scroll up like movie credits then repeat itself on a loop inside. Also the text that will be going in will be external and is dynamic, so you could get 1 result going in, but then 4 at another time depending on the results.

So idealy it would all be in one frame and be much like a component?

Thanks

Fading Out Text INSIDE A Text Area...
I have text showing up in a text area, I know I can make the background transparent, but how do I make the actual text showing up an _alpha of oh say 30 or 40...

I've tried..(inside the onClipLoad event of the text area)

this.text._alpha = 30;
this.setStyle("alpha", "30");

Need To Fix Shifting Text Inside Dynamic Text Box
I have a dynamic text box with a scroll component being loaded as a external swf when it comes in the text with in it looks like its shifting around and moveing this is when I test the movie

how can I fix this

Loading Text Inside Movie -> Inside A Movie
Ok so I have a movie that has a bunch of little movies which are played on a click of a button. Now inside the second layer movie I want to load some text from an external txt file but for some reason it is not working. I am using, loadVariablesNum("content.txt", 0); and my dynamic txt area is suppose to retreive the variable rafting. now for some reason it is not loading the text into the text area, could it because it is not in the main scene??? Can someone please help me out???

Thanks

Nick

Width Of Text Inside Text Box
Hi,

I'm loading data into flash into dynamic text box and that text box with the text in it becomes a button - therefor behind the text box there is a transparent button.

i need to know how wide is the text in the text box so i'll know how much should i stretch the button behind exactly to cover the text, now the text box size has to be set up in advance - the text box size is static since the it won't increase it self if there'll be too much text (= therefor i can't count on the text box size to determind the button width)

i thought of counting num of chars in the string and take the largest char - and have the button in that width multiplied by the num of chars = that didn't came out good since it left too much extra button where there is no text.

i need to find a better solution, is there?

thanks in advance,
Maya.

Dynamic Text Box Inside A MC.
i have a dynamic text feild inside a MC.
i rotate the MC but the text in the feild disapears... and only appears when i rotate back to original pos.

any way around it?

Dynamic Text Inside MC - HELP
I'm trying to use an input field on the root level to change dynamic text inside of a MC. The MC continuously plays. I want the dynamic text to change whenever a different value is entered without clicking anything.

How would I do this?????

Thanks in advance

Please Help With Dynamic Text Inside Of MC
Can anyone point me to a good tuturial that would show me how to resolve this problem I'm explaining below:

I have a title identifer movie clip I created to identify 10 thumbnails upon mouse rollovers. When you rollover thumbnail "1" the following text appears below it: "Title: Photo 1".

My problem occurs when I try to setup thumbnail "2" using an instance of this title identifier MC. When I change the text inside this second instance to show "Title: Photo 2" what ends up happening is that the first instance that originally showed "Title: Photo 1" also changes to show "Title: Photo 2".

Is there anyway to create 10 instances of one MC and yet still have the ability to alter the text within each individual instance so each one can be unique? (without all of them changing). I need instance #1 to show "Title: Photo 1", instance #2 to show "Title: Photo 2", instance #3 to show "Title: Photo 3", and so on.

I guess this can be done using some sort of Actionscript but I'm still too new to know how to make this happen. There has got to be an easy way to make this happen.

Something I tried was making 10 duplicates of the instance and renaming each one individually. This did not work. I also tried assinging instance names inside of the instance dialog box and this did not help. If someone can provide me with some help I would greatly appreciate it.

HTML Inside A Text Box
is this possible? and if it is how is it done?

thanks in advance!

HELP Text Backward (Inside Out)
Hello everyone! I have a problem on the dynamic text and i am wondering if anyone can help me out...

when you go to this website
www.lasermd.ca

when you go to the main page the text is backwards and inside out.. i am wondering how come this is the case.. really strange..

i used flash to make a dynamic text box and add the text in ... add the scroll bar from the components and voiala it works all the time on my other sites but this one.. really strange..... i used front page to import the flash file into the html page...

any help would be great! since i am about to pull my hairs on this one! thanks!

Sam

Scrolling Text Inside A MC
attatched to this message is an fla that i got off of flashkit. it's a method of scrolling text with pictures that i want to use in a project. i want to place it inside a movie clip, which will go onto the main timeline. When i attempt to test the movie in flashplayer and try to use the scrolling buttons i get an output window that pops up and says...
Target not found: Target="/scrollingtext" Base="_level0.instance6" over and over again....can anyone tell me what i'm doin wrong?

Grow An MC Without The Text Inside.
hi,
i got an MC with a TextField inside it.
can i make the MC grow (dynamicly with AS -> MC._width += 100)
without the text inside it?

Avi.

How To Search Text From Inside Swf's
Does anyone know how could I create a searchable site that uses swf files?

I was wondering if using XML or TXT files will be my only answer. Any examples out there?

Thanks

Scrolling Text - Inside A Box.
Hello, my name is Jason and I have just begun to work with flash (since 2 years ago).

I am having a problem I just cannot figure out. I want to create a box with the alpha lowered ( half transparent ). Inside this box I want to have text, the text being linked to a file that I can update and it will update itself on the server. There are a couple of problems I am having with this, they include;

1) Getting a scroll bar onto the box so viewer's can read the full message I am intending to send to them.

2) Linking the file to the project.

Can anyone please help me...? If I am unclear please respond asking for more specific details and I can fill you in....

Thank you for your help;

Jasonrocks72