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Special Characters In Input Text Fields
I am having problems with special characters. Here is what I've done so far. First I added all the UTF-8 character codes for the characters I needed in a Text file . On the first line of the text file I have this...with the corresponding codes underneath

//!-- UTF8
232
233
234
235
236

..I saved it as "myText.as" .. in UTF8 format...I saved mine in winXP notepad because I tried with other text editors and it wouldn't work

then in the Actionscript editor type these lines in the first frame.

System.useCodePage = true
#include "myText.as"

This worked great in a player and now on my computer to type these characters into an input text field. However, over the internet it doesn't work. Please help. Thanks.

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Special Characters And Text Fields
I have just followed a tutorial where I made a guestbook using Flash and PHP. The information in the guestbook is stored in a .txt file.
My problem is that I want the users to be able to write in norwegian as well as english. So I embedded the font outlines for the norwegian characters Æ Ø Å. But it only works on the input fields. These fields are where the users write their name, email, website and comments.
The characters do not show up in the multiline, dynamic text field(with "Render as text" checked). This is the field where all the information is sent after the user has pressed the Submit button.

Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?

Any help is appreciated!

Fjellman

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Special Characters In Text Fields
I'm importing XML files and putting the data into htmlText fields.

For some reason, HTML special characters such as ™ and & aren't showing up as such. They're just showing up as their code. This is a watered down version of the script, with the important parts intact:

PHP Code:

bodyCopyMC.bodyContent.html = true;
bodyCopyMC.bodyContent.htmlText = contentArray[0].bodyCopy;

The copy shows up, but it displays ™ as ™, and not ™. Any ideas?

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Special Characters In External Text Fields
Okay, I'm sure I'm suffering brain fade here, but in a flashMX movie I'm using an external text file that has an ampersand in the text. But when the swf runs it stops at the ampersand and displays neither the & or any more text. I've tried escaping it, using html ( & etc ) - nothing works. Solutions?

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Special Characters In Input Text
has anyone experienced the problem of pasting text with special characters into an input text box in flash? what does flash do to the characters? if i knew how it was translating them, i could swap them for the correct character since i have to parse the text anyway.

thanks

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Creating Keyboard Class - Setting The Focus To Input Text Fields
Hi all,

I am creating a virtual keyboard class, but haven't gotten very far on it. What I would like to do is load the virtual keyboard into any flash document, and use it to input letters into any input text field. I am a little stumped on how to do this, since with AS 2.0 I would just use a selection listener to find out what text field the keyboard has to write in. However in the latest version, it seems when I press a key on the virtual keyboard, you lose focus on the text field and the movieclip is focused instead!

Here is the code so far for the class:

ActionScript Code:
package
{
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.text.*;

public class VirtualKeyboard extends MovieClip
{
private var keyboard:MovieClip;

public function VirtualKeyboard(clip:MovieClip)
{
keyboard = clip;

keyboard.keyq.buttonMode = true;
keyboard.keyq.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onKeyPress);
}

private function onKeyPress(event:MouseEvent):void
{

if (event.target.name == "keyq")
{
trace("q"); // This is where I need the "q" to display in the selected text field i.e. textfield += "q"
}
}
}
}

What would be the best way to do this? At the moment I only have the "q" button programmed on the keyboard, but the other buttons would be similar. If anyone could help me, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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How To Checkfor String Variables Or Special Characters In Numeric Fields?
Hi,

I have a simple calculation application. 2 inputs and when I hit submit the output is their division. I am using the following code.

on(press){
_parent.c1.text = Math.round(10000*Number(_parent.a1.text) /Number(_parent.a2.text))/10000;
}

where c1 is ouput number and a1 and a2 are inout nos. I want to flash an error message if somone enters special characters like ? or " and also string variables like a, b, c....

Shud I change my variables from c1.text to something else to accomodate the above ? Also, how do we code the loop for the above error check in flash?
Please suggest.

Thanks in advance,
Shyam.

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Special Characters, Input Field And UPPERCASE
Hi everyone!

I have an input_txt that is supposed to be all in uppercase. After embedding only uppercase letters and the special characters needed (Á, É...) I realized that users still would need to press shift+´+e to get É (in wich case you might aswell just ask the user to press caps lock instead ).

Now is there a way of making the input_txt show only uppercase on the fly, that works better with these chars? Like listening for ´+e and replace it with É or something...

Anyones previouses experiences are greatly appreciated.

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Input Fields Don't Keep Characters
I have submit for that will return the user to the input page if they don't fill in all fields. However, I notice when you return, all fields are empty and they have to start over. Why would that be? The form is a seperate scene in my swf file.

Thanks,
Dave

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Input Field & Font Issue - Some Special Characters Displaying Different Glyphs
Hi all.

I'm redesigning my website now. I have a contact form that works the way it should, except I have a strange problem with non-standard-latin characters like ı, İ, ş, Ş and ğ (specific characters Turkish uses other than the shared ones like ç, Ç, ö and Ö).

I have a container movie that shares fonts with a fonts-only movie called "fonts.fla". All the fonts are appropriately exported & imported so they show up the way they are supposed to. However, when I input, say "ı" it displays a strange character, "¦" but when I copy the right character from another application and paste it, it shows the right glyph. Same happens for other characters listed above ("ş" becomes "§", "ğ" becomes "©"). It is like, there's a problem with the glyph-mapping of the keyboard (but there is not, with any application or website but this).

I thought maybe setting the System.useCodePage to true or something might fix it but in fact it didn't. I have no idea what is going on with the file.

What I have tried so far...
- embedding these special characters in the text fields
- using a system font (that has these glyphs) without embedding
- using (and embedding via symbol) another font that I know has these characters
but the same result.

Does anybody have a slightest idea what might be causing this, or what the solution might be?

Thanks in advance.

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Automatically Tab Through Multiple Input Fields When Max Characters Is Reached
Flash 5.0 is not cooperating! I'm trying to build a top-level install that at one point will prompt the user for a serial number. This is split into 3 input fields seperated by hyphens, in classic MS style. I need the selected text field to advance when the current one is filled. In my example my serial number will have a 14-7-7 character format. After the user enters the 14th character in the first field I would like the second field to become selected and the next character entered should start this field off.

Sounds easy enough, right?

Everyone is probably thinking of the Selection object. The only problem is that the 15th character is not being added to the second field. Here is the (pseudo)-code that I have included to an off-screen Button:

on (keypress "<Tab>") {
if ((Selection.getFocus() == "_level0.field1")&&(_level0.field1.length==14) ) {
Selection.setFocus("_level0.field2");
}
}

etc.

How can I make that last (15th) character entered carry over? Please help! Thanks!

-Nate

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Trapping Line Feed Characters In Input Fields
I have a Flash input form in which I can eliminate unwanted ascii characters such as leading or trailing spaces, etc. with charCodeAt(i). But line feeds have no ascii value that I know of (as spaces do). As a result, the text stored in the created text files look like this:
&ititle=Oh-Oh
&iwidth=6
&iheight=12
&imedia=watermedia
&imaterial=paper
&iunframed=Price on Request
&iframed=P.O.R.
&istatus=sold&

rather than this (preferred):
&ititle=Oh-Oh&iwidth=6&iheight=12&imedia=watermedia&imaterial=paper&iunframed=Price on Request&iframed=P.O.R.&istatus=sold&

The problem is with reading these variables and throwing them into a single line Dynamic Field... you only see the first line.
I suppose I could hunt for the URL code for line feed (%OA) after importing the variables and slice it out of the string, but it would be simpler if I could eliminate it from the input field to begin with.

Any ideas... thanks

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Special Characters In Text-Box
Hey,

Okay, so I've got these text-boxes on my site that hold huge chunks of text.
Okay, no biggie. I need quite a few of them to show the euro symbol. I read that you could show it using the unicode escape sequence u20AC, which does work, but not in this case. Because the text block is so huge, I have to load it from an external text file. Well, I can't put the hex code in the file 'cause then flash parses it ike regular text. I tried embedding the symbol into the text-box, but the only way I can get it to show up is if the euro symbol is in the box all by itself.

I have to have this done tonight, somebody please help!!!

Thanks in advance,
Me

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Special Characters And Mac-text
Anybody got a suggestion for a good text editing tool that enables me to export or save txt-files so that they can be loaded into an swf-file (with special characters)? On the PC, notepad and such do a fine job, but the macintosh platform... I tried Simpletext, Worldtext, BBEdit Lite, Word98.
Is it ASCII-related?
O yeah; it's for a flash 5 swf...

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Loading Text: Special Characters
When loading in variables is it possible to mark out the '&' sign?
Cheers

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Special Characters In Dynamic Text
I am sorry if this is posted in the wrong section...

In my movie, I have a dynamic text field. I set it's value w/ actionscript:

text = "hello my name is santa"

however whenever I put a dollar sign ($), it will not print in the output. In example,

text = "you owe me $5"
output will be: "you owe me 5"

Any ideas? Thank You!

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im trying to import a simple .txt file to flash
the text contains special characters like äö
those letters are being replaced by squares.

Do you have any sugestion?

Thanks

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I have a dynamic text box that shows different text depending on what button I'm rolling over. It looks something like this, where "text1" is the variable. How do I get the TM to be tiny next to the word "Name"? On a mac it would be like typing option-2.

Code:
_root.Button1.onRollOver = function() {
text1 = "Name™ Description"
};
It looks correct in the scripting area, but then doesn't show in actual use.

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Special Characters In Dynamic Text
hi,

i'm form Chile, so i speak spanish. i'm loading a dynamic text, but some spanish characters like "´" and "ñ" (i hope you see the characters in "") do not appear. Por example, the word "drásticas" which has the special character over the "a" appears "dricas", that is, it skips the letter with the special character and the 2 following letters.
Anyway, i've tried using the embed option for dynamic texts, but may be i'm using it wrong.

please help.

thanks

bb

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hello,

i have some problems displaying the turkish characters.

i'm sending the link and the example files. I downloaded them from Flashkit.

here is the link,

News

There writes "Son Haberler" which means "Latest News" below somewhere.

There writes "Heim tekstil fuarý", or supposed to write. but "ý", "þ", "ð" cannot be seen. Instead some absurd characters. By the way this is a dynamic news update system.

What i ask is, is there a problem with the char-set of PHP file or should i embed the font to dynamic and input boxes? What i'm going to do?

Can you help me after having a look at the files or the link?

THANX,

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Won't Show Text Or Special Characters...
I cant get this map to dislay characters or symbols when rolled over. Attched is the .fla. I appreciate your help

ex of problem...when you roll over the east coast...it should read 12 Midnight, March 25 Also, characters like a colon, commas, and slashes will not output.

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Special Characters In Dynamic Text
Hello all -

I am pulling in text from XML into my flash file. I need to include ® Everything I have read so far says MX won't display ® however it does support the html img tag. I wasn't able to pull in an image either - any suggestions?

Thanks!!

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Hi there,

I can't seem to get some special characters to show up in my dynamic textFields. I have text loaded from XML files, photo captions basically, that won't display quotation marks, double quotes, etc. I'd also like to be able to give them some .html style formatting, but anytime I try to add escapes-- -- or to add html tags to my XML, well that doesn't work either.

Seems like someone must have come across this. Perhaps I'd be better off with .txt or something?

Richard

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hey. I am using an external text file to load up content.

I am wanting to use • (a solid point). I use %95 which works fine. The problem is when I embed the font this character simply does not work...certain others don't work either. I have tried every possible range and I cannot get it to work...

So does the range of characters get reduced when you embed a font???

Does anyone have an idea???

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I working with a TextArea Component. I am loading a XHTML file into it that includes CSS.

It is not translating special characters like double quotes & apostrophes.

whadoido???

Any suggestions.

www.austinfitmagazine.com/test.html

Go to the first section (health) in the navigation.

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I have a dynamic textbox using the "flash for fonts" font Business Bold.
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I have Punctuation set in the Character dialog box for the textbox
It indicates the font has 53 glyphs
The variable is
Code:
_parent.contact_maintext

on the parent I have
Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
contact_maintext = "paul%40tossfad.com";
}

I thought this would display the "at" symbol, but it does not.
The "at" symbol does display in a standard static textbox.

where am I going wrong

thanks
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Hi,
I'm trying to load an external text file that contain a special character.
I used unicode escape character to do that.
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It works when tested on the Flash file, but when I loaded the txt file, it doesn't display the character, instead it show the unicode.

I've uploaded the files If you want to see. Really appreciate someone telling me what's wrong with it. Thanks so much!

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I am importing text from an xml document at run time. Everything comes over ok except for a few characters. The ' does not display correctly and Î² (greek lower case beta symbol). Does anyone know how to import these special characters? Is there a list somewhere?

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i'm loading variables from a text file and it works fine except for some special characters which are not read correctly by flash mx. i'm using the codes from http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...l_encoding.htm but most of the codes for special characters do not work!!
i especially need to be able to show the spanish "ñ" and the letters with an accent "é","á", etc.

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o.k. so far, but my text has to start with a variable name like var=...text...,
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Über 30 Charaktere

when published comes out as:

ber 30 Charaktere

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Example of the sentence:
The local T&S store had a "jolly good turnout"

I've tried:
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Hi all,

I’m pretty new to Flash, but form the start I have a big struggle with coding. Hope some smart, experienced flash coder can help me with that.

I want to create an empty text box in the actionScript. Then I want to pass a variable to it, and set up its alpha to 50% (I embedded the Verdana font and linkage it to actionScript).

This is my code:

var myTxt:String="Łódź, Poznań; Moscow:Москва; Minsk: Мінск";

var txt_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
txt_fmt.font = "myFont";
txt_fmt.size = 24;
txt_fmt.color = 0xBF0000;

this.createTextField("city_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 25, 5, 200, 40);
city_txt.type = "dynamic";
city_txt.embedFonts=true;
city_txt.setNewTextFormat(txt_fmt);
city_txt.text = myTxt;

city_txt._alpha=50;

My problem is that it doesn’t want to display special characters like Polish or Russian letters. I know, that it is possible to embed characters, but I guess it is only possible to the text elements placed on the stage, and I need to create this text box dynamically in the code.

I tried to change the font into: Arial CYR, but still nothing. What I managed to discover so far is, if the line: "city_txt.embedFonts=true;" is removed, than everything is displayed correctly but than I can’t see my alpha.

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Last edited by poindexter : 2002-07-17 at 08:38.

Here's the rub bub.

I have a line of static text that I need to display a divsion symbol in. (ie: 9 ÷ 3 = 3) When I type the ÷ symbol (Opt /) it displays ÷ but immediately changes to a weird symbol when I click out of it.

What the fugg?

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.nt1 would be the total number of times that "A" was selected, .nt2 would be the total number of times that "B" was selected, etc.

//------here is the code that I am using

var score_array:Array = new Array();
score_array.push({score:_root.nt1, letter:"A"});
score_array.push({score:_root.nt2, letter:"B"});
score_array.push({score:_root.nt3, letter:"C"});
score_array.push({score:_root.nt4, letter:"D"});
score_array.push({score:_root.nt5, letter:"E"});
score_array.push({score:_root.nt6, letter:"F"});
score_array.push({score:_root.nt7, letter:"G"});
score_array.sortOn("score", Array.NUMERIC);
for (i=0; i<score_array.length; i++) {
trace(score_array[i].score+":"+score_array[i].letter);

}
var topThree_array:Array = new Array();
var topThree_array = score_array.splice(4);
for (i=0; i<topThree_array.length; i++) {
trace(topThree_array[i].letter);
}
//--------

when I test the script it works, and the results are accurate and show up in the output panel as exected:

0:E
0:F
2:A
6:D
6:C
6:B
8:G
C
B
G

When I am stumped is how to get the C, B, G to show up in their own text boxes as the sorted top 3 results. This is my first attempt at scripting this advanced...if anyone can help me that would be awesome, if you have a better way of getting the results - let me know - or if you can point me to a resource that will show me how to - that would rock.

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Hai Flash guys

I've problem loading the text file with special characters. That mean in my text content i'm having "&" symbol. In movie this text file loading and displaying up to this symbol and other contents are not displaying. I come to know that for this special characters we've to give code as "%25" in text file. And now its working fine.

I don't want to give code to this type of special characters every time in my text. We can place script for this character allowing in movie to display its right.

If u've idea pls give solution for this. I would like to know about this solution

thx
sathish

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I remember from a past project a few years ago that I found it had something to do with the text encoding, and I could save the external text file as a UTF-8 or something and then use the html/ascii code for the grammar marks and it worked, does anyone remember exactly how that works?

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