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Textfield That Won't Update Itself

I am a beginner , and this is my first question on this forum , forgive my stupidity

I just created one texfield on the stage with a variable name "myNumberTotal"

I created one buttons on the stage with this code:

on(Release) {
_root.myNumberTotal += 10;
}

Then on the frame i put this code :

var myTotalNumber:Number;

Then i test the movie , what happens is the textbox show me "undefined" , when i click it , it shows me NaN but i thought i already declared it as a number datatype .... Please please lend me a hand in this issue .. thanks

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Posted on: 03-29-2006, 05:53 AM

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I am new to this forum and fairly new to flash. I have a textfield that is being created and added to a movieclip. I am loading external data from a databse and populating the textfield with the information.

However, the textfield is not being updated in the movieclip. The text property of the textfield is getting changed but it is not updating in the movieclip.

Has anyone ever run into this? Is there something I have to do to update the display of the textfield?

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John

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Code:
package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
import flash.text.TextFormat;
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var calendar:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
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var daysOfWeek:Array = new Array("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday");
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var day_mc:MovieClip;
var days_mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
var daysNo:Number;
var startDay:Number;
var i:Number;
var buttonRight:right;
var buttonLeft:left;

public function Calendar(__x:Number, __y:Number, fetch:String = null) {
if (fetch) {
currentDate = new Date(fetch);
} else {
currentDate = new Date();
}
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publishMonth();
publishDays();

calendar.x = (235-170)/2;
calendar.y = (203-140)/2;
this.addChild(calendar);

//////////////////////buttons don't update dynamic textfield!////////////////////////////////////////////////
buttonRight = new right();
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buttonRight.x = 210;
buttonRight.y = 40;
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buttonLeft = new left();
addChild(buttonLeft);
buttonLeft.x = 20;
buttonLeft.y = 40;
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}
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var nextMonth=currentDate.month+= 1;
var month_txt:TextField=new TextField;
month_txt.text=monthsOfYear[nextMonth] + " " + currentDate.getDate() + ", " + currentDate.fullYear;
trace(month_txt.text=monthsOfYear[nextMonth] + " " + currentDate.getDate() + ", " + currentDate.fullYear);
}

public function getPreviousMonth(event:MouseEvent) {
var previousMonth=currentDate.month-= 1;
var month_txt:TextField=new TextField;
month_txt.text=monthsOfYear[previousMonth] + " " + currentDate.getDate() + ", " + currentDate.fullYear;
trace(month_txt.text=monthsOfYear[previousMonth] + " " + currentDate.getDate() + ", " + currentDate.fullYear);
}
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

public function publishMonth() {
var month_txt:TextField = new TextField();
month_txt.text = monthsOfYear[currentDate.getMonth()] + " " + currentDate.getDate() + ", " + currentDate.fullYear;
//trace(month_txt.text = monthsOfYear[currentDate.getMonth()] + " " + currentDate.getDate() + ", " + currentDate.fullYear);
month_txt.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.CENTER;
month_txt.embedFonts = true;
var month_tf = new TextFormat();
month_tf.font = "Arial Black";
month_tf.color = 0xFFFFFF;
month_tf.size = 14;
month_txt.setTextFormat(month_tf);
month_txt.selectable = false;
month_mc.x = 40;
month_mc.y = 0;
month_mc.addChild(month_txt);
calendar.addChild(month_mc);

}

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Code:

public class MyTextField extends textFormating {

   private var _txtFld:TextField;

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      setNewTextFormat(12, 0xFF0000);

      _txtFld = new TextField;
      _txtFld.text = text;
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      _txtFld.wordWrap = true;
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      _txtFld.mouseEnabled = false;
      _txtFld.selectable = false;

      _txtFld.setTextFormat (txtTitel);

      addChild(_txtFld);

   }

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      _txtFld.appendText(text);

      _txtFld.text = text;

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}

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like up!!!
http://www.big-bird.org/text/test.htm

flash source:

http://www.big-bird.org/text/test.fla
http://www.big-bird.org/text/test1.txt
http://www.big-bird.org/text/test2.txt

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Having a 5 day nightmare over this!

I really need to update the text in a text field from the event.PROGRESS Handler below, its alot of code to read but it all traces and works fine, just cant get info from the handler to the textField..

The Salt and Vinegar (UN OPENED) pringles on my desk are yours!

ActionScript Code:
package
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.net.*;
import flash.display.*;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFormat;
import flash.text.Font;
import flash.text.*;

import xmllist;

public class imagemc extends MovieClip
{
public var holder:MovieClip = new MovieClip;
public var holder_Preloader:MovieClip = new MovieClip;
public var holder_Sprite:MovieClip = new MovieClip;
public var holder_Preloader_Text:TextFormat = new TextFormat;

public function imagemc (xmlArray,URLimages):void
{
//trace ("CLASS CONSTRUCTOR : IMAGEMC");
for (var i:int=0; i<xmlArray.length; i++)
{
buildSlideContent (xmlArray,URLimages,i);
}
}
public function buildSlideContent (xmlArray,URLimages,i):void
{
// CREATE MAIN CLIP
var holder:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
holder.graphics.lineStyle (1, 0xFF0000, 1);
holder.graphics.moveTo (0, 0);
holder.graphics.lineTo (760, 0);
holder.graphics.moveTo (760, 0);
holder.graphics.lineTo (760, 390);
holder.graphics.moveTo (760, 390);
holder.graphics.lineTo (0, 390);
holder.graphics.moveTo (0, 390);
holder.graphics.lineTo (0, 0);
holder.x = 20;
// CREATE PRELOADER CLIP //
var holder_Preloader:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
holder_Preloader.graphics.lineStyle (1, 0xFF6600, 1);
holder_Preloader.graphics.moveTo (0, 0);
holder_Preloader.graphics.lineTo (760, 0);
holder_Preloader.graphics.moveTo (760, 0);
holder_Preloader.graphics.lineTo (760, 390);
holder_Preloader.graphics.moveTo (760, 390);
holder_Preloader.graphics.lineTo (0, 390);
holder_Preloader.graphics.moveTo (0, 390);
holder_Preloader.graphics.lineTo (0, 0);
holder_Preloader.x = 0;
// IMPORT TEXT
var Font_Levenim:Font=new Font1();
var Font_Levenim_Format:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
Font_Levenim_Format.font=Font_Levenim.fontName;
// CREATE TEXT FIELD //
var holder_Preloader_Text:TextField = new TextField();
holder_Preloader_Text.defaultTextFormat = Font_Levenim_Format;
holder_Preloader_Text.embedFonts = true;
holder_Preloader_Text.x = 0;
holder_Preloader_Text.y = 10*i;
holder_Preloader_Text.width = 350;
holder_Preloader_Text.height = 20;
holder_Preloader_Text.border = false;
holder_Preloader_Text.background = false;
holder_Preloader_Text.text = "HELLO WORLD";
holder_Preloader_Text.textColor = 0xFF0000;
holder_Preloader_Text.multiline = false;
holder_Preloader_Text.wordWrap = false;
holder_Preloader_Text.selectable = false;

// CREATE IMAGE HOLDER SPRITE
var holder_Sprite:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
holder_Sprite.graphics.lineStyle (1, 0xFF6600, 1);
holder_Sprite.graphics.moveTo (0, 0);
holder_Sprite.graphics.lineTo (760, 0);
holder_Sprite.graphics.moveTo (760, 0);
holder_Sprite.graphics.lineTo (760, 390);
holder_Sprite.graphics.moveTo (760, 390);
holder_Sprite.graphics.lineTo (0, 390);
holder_Sprite.graphics.moveTo (0, 390);
holder_Sprite.graphics.lineTo (0, 0);
holder_Sprite.x = 80;
// CREATE IMAGE
var ldr:Loader = new Loader();
var url:String = URLimages+xmlArray[i];
var urlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
ldr.load (urlReq);
ldr.x = 0;
ldr.name = "LD_IMG_"+i;
holder.name = "MC_HOLDER_1_"+i;
holder_Preloader.name = "MC_PRELOADER_1_"+i;
holder_Sprite.name = "MC_HOLDER_1_IMG_"+i;
holder_Preloader_Text.name = "TF_PRELOADER_TEXT_1_"+i;

addChild (holder);

holder.addChild (holder_Preloader);
holder.addChild (holder_Sprite);

holder_Preloader.addChild (holder_Preloader_Text);
holder_Sprite.addChild (ldr);

configureListeners (ldr.contentLoaderInfo);
}
private function configureListeners (dispatcher:IEventDispatcher):void
{
dispatcher.addEventListener (Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
dispatcher.addEventListener (HTTPStatusEvent.HTTP_STATUS, httpStatusHandler);
dispatcher.addEventListener (Event.INIT, initHandler);
dispatcher.addEventListener (IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, ioErrorHandler);
dispatcher.addEventListener (Event.OPEN, openHandler);
dispatcher.addEventListener (Event.UNLOAD, unLoadHandler);
dispatcher.addEventListener (ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, progressHandler);
}
private function completeHandler (event:Event):void
{
trace ("HANDLER : COMPLETED > " + event + event.currentTarget.loader.name);

}
private function openHandler (event:Event):void
{
trace ("HANDLER : OPEN > " + event + ldr);
}
private function progressHandler (event:ProgressEvent):void
{
///////////////// NEED TO UPDATE "TF_PRELOADER_TEXT_1_"+i HERE ///////////
trace ("HANDLER : PROGRESS LOADED > " + event.bytesLoaded + " total: " + event.bytesTotal);
}
private function securityErrorHandler (event:SecurityErrorEvent):void
{
trace ("HANDLER : SECURITY > " + event);
}
private function httpStatusHandler (event:HTTPStatusEvent):void
{
trace ("HANDLER : HTTP STATUS > " + event);
}
private function ioErrorHandler (event:IOErrorEvent):void
{
trace ("HANDLER : I O ERROR > " + event);
}
private function unLoadHandler (event:Event):void
{
trace ("HANDLER : UNLOADED > " + event);
}
private function initHandler (event:Event):void
{
trace ("HANDLER : INIT > " + event);
}
}
}

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At the end of the script is a conditional setting, changing the textField.
However, the text just dissapears.

Anyone ?

Attach Code

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import flash.geom.Rectangle;
import flash.text.*;

// first make an array to put all our snowflakes in
var snowFlakes : Array = new Array();

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dyntext_NDW.type = TextFieldType.DYNAMIC;
dyntext_NDW.x = 120;
dyntext_NDW.y = 150;
dyntext_NDW.width=600;
//dyntext_NDW.height = 200;
dyntext_NDW.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
dyntext_NDW.multiline = true;
dyntext_NDW.text = "text1";
trace ("how many ?");

// define formatting
var format1:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
format1.color = 0xFF0000;
format1.size = 30;
format1.font = "Courier";
format1.font = "AFKlampenborg";

var format2:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
format2.font = "Courier";

dyntext_NDW.setTextFormat(format1);
var startRange:uint = 6;

//put on stage
addChild (dyntext_NDW);

// and decide the maxium number of flakes we want
var numFlakes : uint = 250;

// and define a rectangle to store the screen dimensions in.
var screenArea:Rectangle = new Rectangle(0,0,800,300);

addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, frameLoop);

// and define the function that is called on an ENTER_FRAME event

function frameLoop(e:Event)
{

var snowflake : SnowFlake;

// if we don't have the maximum number of flakes...
if(snowFlakes.length<numFlakes)
{
// then make a new one!
snowflake = new SnowFlake(screenArea);

// add it to the array of snowflakes
snowFlakes.push(snowflake);

// and add it to the stage
addChild(snowflake);

}

// now calculate the wind factor by looking at the x position
// of the mouse relative to the centre of the screen
var wind : Number = ((screenArea.width/2) - mouseX);

// and divide by 60 to make it smaller
wind /=60;

function dynText():void {
dyntext_NDW.text = "NDW 123 overwrite";
addChild (dyntext_NDW);
}

// now loop through every snowflake
for(var i:uint = 0; i<snowFlakes.length; i++)
{
trace ( "flakes = ", i);
snowflake = snowFlakes[i];

// and update it
snowflake.update(wind);

// update tekst
if (i==20) {
dynText();
}
}

}

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I'm trying to update a text field on my stage based on the results of a function. My function is in a as file however when it gets to the

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ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable mainDisplay is not defined.

here is the line in my functin code
mainDisplay.text="GAME OVER TRY AGAIN";

how do i reference the textField mainDisplay from the function contained with the as file

I have tried stage.mainDisplay

any help would be appreciated.

regards

[MX2004] How To Update Textfield Only When Changed? - Urgent
I have 2 textfields...
They have to be related to each other so when I change the data in one of them, the other changes too (not identically... calculations and stuff)

And when I change the second one the, first one has to change accordingly... like a 2-way thing

Has that something to do with listeners mby? Never used them b4

Moock's VirtualPet - TextField Update Not Working
Hi...

I've followed Colin Moock's AS3 notes to create a VirtualPet
I've got it working from the code at: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionsc...n_moock_f6.pdf

...but am now trying to add a textField on the stage that will display the % of calories remaining.

Extra code I have created in VirtalPet.as:
1. private var petView (An instance of VirtualPetView)
2. petView.displayInfo() (Called from the digest() method, which is called by the Timer every second)

Extra code I have added in VirtualPetView.as:
1. The method, displayInfo()
2. The method, createTextField(whichField:TextField, x:Number, y:Number, align:String, size:Number, color:Number, bold:Boolean)
3. The textField calories_txt, created in VirtualPetView by the above method.

The problem:
It displays correctly at first: "50% remaining". However there is no change to the textField content after that, as the VirtualPet becomes more and more hungry.
The method which should update the textField is called displayInfo(), and is definitely being called, as a trace action within the function is working properly, giving the correct value of remaining calories.

Please see the source code in the zip file attached.

Link In External File To Update Text In Other Textfield?
hi,

I am trying to create a link in a external text file, that will make a text appear in another textbox on the stage.
ie i have two textbox's on the stage, one called SubMenu one called MainText. Both are filled reading from an external text file. Now I would like to create a hyperlink in the SubMenu textfile that will make a new text appear in the MainText.
Anyone have any idea?

what i have sofar is this (the SubMenu text file):

SubMenu=Galleries
<a href="http://www.adamandtheweightfansite.com/NewsText.txt" target="MainText">Gallery 1</a>
Gallery 2

MainText or _MainText doesnt make a difference. It keeps opening it in a new browser.
I think that if we can make this work, we will have created a way to update menu's without any flash knowledge.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Oh im using MX Pro

Lisa

Dynamic Text Field Won't Show Update Until NEXT Update Happens
Hi,

In a very simple Flash file with bascially just a dynamic text field and a button I attached some very simple code to the button that updates the text fields .text parameter, like this:

on(click) {
some_textfield.text = some_value;
}

With trace(...) I have verified that "some_value" is what I want it to be. However, the txt field doe NOT get updated! It gets that (b ythen old) value the NEXT time I press the button!

So when I start the flash movie and click the button nothing happens, the next time I see the value I should have seen the first time, etc. - always one event late. Since the trace() I put inside the on(click) handler shows the correct value I'm really at a loss to explain why the text field is not updated.

Any explanations?

PS: By the way, I'm using font "_sans" so there's no font to embed, but trying Arial with "embed numbers" (I want to display an integer number) doesn't work either. I only mention that because I think to have observed something like the above strange behavior caused by embedding (or not) the characters.

Edited: 09/04/2007 at 09:23:57 AM by Hasenstein

Player 9 Update-Firefox Update And Bandwidth
Hi,

I have a site of mine online which I created some 2.5 years ago probably with Flash MX--Recently, my hosting company informed me that I had allotted my bandwidth allowance--I had recently installed the latest version of the Flash Player as well as the latest version of Mozilla Firefox--It seems that through viewing my site in the updated Firefox browser with the updated player there was some code in my swf which apparently kept trying to download the mp3 file --Some 271769 hits in a few hours resulting in using 1341.07 GB of bandwidth, all originating from IP address, btw--The hosting company is threatening to charge me at the rate of $10 per 5GB over my allotted bandwidth-I get 20GB free per month--That means they are planning to charge me over $2,600 --
Anyway, here is the code:

Code:
jimi = new Sound();
jimi.loadSound("jimi.mp3", true);
jimi.onSoundComplete = function() {
jimi.loadSound("jimi.mp3", true);
};
Which has not caused any problems in over 2 years and countless viewings until the recent installations of the most current security updates to the Flash 9 Player and Firefox-

Does anyone know if the code is now incompatible with the new player and/or firefox and if there is a way to fix this without redoing the entire site in AS3?

Thanks
---Yvette

Loading Text & JPG Nito TextField Makes Textfield White
Hi guys !

Does anyone know, why a textfield may become white when loading text + JPGs into it? Sometimes it happens to me, sometimes not. I haven't figured out why.

If you have any clues... I'd be really thankful

The AS I'm using:

_target.container.t.html = true
_target.container.t.condenseWhite = true
_target.container.t.autoSize = "left";
_target.container.t.htmlText = _data.texto

The String ( &HTML ):

"Text lorem ipsum bla bla ..... <img style='WIDTH: 154px; HEIGHT: 59px' height='298' width='856' alt='' src='http://www.spacilong.com/arq/img/AlcatelLucent_Hor_2col_sm.jpg' />

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this is driving me nuts, even if i have it marked so that my dynamic textfield is anti aliased, it still looks as if its text is aliased. And if i simply make that textfield Static, the text all of a sudden looks amazingly crisp and anti aliased.

How can i fix this?! I am attempting to load xml data into my text fields but its wasted if the text looks like crap..

So can anyone enlighten me on how to do this? i tried searching Flashs help, all i came out with was "Textfield._quality" but i do not understand what the description means exactly.. And i tried coding my textfield to _quality = "BEST";, with no avail.

Please help, i'v seen other websites with what i am sure is dynamically loaded fields, and smooth looking text... so what gives?

Thanks!

[textfield] How To Check If Input Text Is More Than Textfield Height?
Hi guys, Is there a way to check if the text that has been input into the textfield is more than the height of the textfield.

I have set the scrollbar hidden and it will become unhidden once the text is greater the the textfield height.

I did try to count the input text and set the visiblity of the scrollbar against that count. Unfortunatly this is unreliable.

Anyone got a better idea?

Cheers
Paul

Link In Dynamic Textfield To Jump To Section Of Same Textfield
Howdy all,

I know you've all seen this before - you are on a website and you click a link and you stay on the same page but jump down to a different section of the page. Like an FAQ page or something where all the questions are listed above but you click on one and jumps down to the answer below.

Is it possible to do this in a dynamic (scrollable) textfield with externally loaded text files in Flash? I don't have DW and I know that there are limited html tags available but if anyone knows an easy way to do this please let me know!

thanks!

After Killing The Focus On A Textfield, The Textfield Remains Selected. Why ?
Hi.
I have a serious problem with the deselecting text when I kill the focus on a textfield.
to see better what I am trying to say, please clcick this link: http://www.eurogaz.ro/rring/expert/

Masking Dynamic Textfield When The Textfield Has A Stylesheet
ok... i have a movieClip containing dynamic textfields, which i'm trying to mask. the textfields are linked to a stylesheet. i understand that, for the masking to work, i have to embed the font. so i've placed the font in the library, given it a linkage name and set embedFonts = true for the dynamic textfields.

what do i do next? and does the fact that i'm embeding the font override the effect of the stylesheet?

(sorry if i sound confused over this. that's because i am.)

thanks in advance for any help

Passing Data Form A Textfield To Another Textfield
ok, how can i grab/store information from a specific textfield instance in scene1 and pass it over to another textfield instance in scene2??

need help, its been bugging me for dayz! <:O

[F8] Input Textfield Inside A Dynamic Textfield?
Hi,

Is it possible to place an input textfield inside a dynamic textfield?

I'd like to replace the variable, this.nTotal, below with an input textfield.
Is there some way to do this?

this.txtComplete.text = "There are " + this.nTotal + " pages in " + this.sGirlName + "'s book.";

Thanks!

Textfield In ScrollPane > Textfield Only Accessible With Clicking Twice
hi!

i have a scrollPane on the stage which contains an editable textfield.
unfortunately i can only access the textfield in the pane when i click on it twice. it seems that the first click goes for the activation of the pane and then comes the textfield.

does anybody have an idea how to solve that problem?

// Text Field
var myTextField:TextField = new TextField();
myTextField.text = "Please insert text";
myTextField.selectable = true;
myTextField.type = TextFieldType.INPUT ;

// ScrollPane
var myScrollPane:ScrollPane = new ScrollPane();
myScrollPane.source = myTextField;
addChild(myScrollPane);

Return TextField From Extended TextField Class
Hi

I'm trying to return a TextField from a class and then display it on stage... but I'm having problem to get it to show up on stage?

Help appreciated!

TFCreator.as:

Code:

import flash.display.*;
import flash.text.*;

public class TFCreator extends TextField
{

// TextField
private var tf:TextField;

// Properties
private var txt:String;
private var instancename:String;
private var color:Number;
private var autosize:String;
private var multilinee:Boolean;
private var wordwrap:Boolean;

// Default TextFormat
private var dfrmt:TextFormat;
private var dfrmt_font:String;
private var dfrmt_color:Number;
private var dfrmt_size:Number;

// External TextFormat
private var efrmt:TextFormat;

public function TFCreator(txt:String = "Text", instancename:String = "Instance", color:Number = 0x333333, autosize:String = "LEFT", multilinee:Boolean = false, wordwrap:Boolean = false, dfrmt_font:String = "Arial", dfrmt_size:Number = 11, dfrmt_color:Number = 0x333333):void
{

// Init Properties
this.txt = txt;
this.instancename = instancename;
this.color = color;
this.autosize = autosize;
this.multilinee = multilinee;
this.wordwrap = wordwrap;

// Init Default Textformat
this.dfrmt_font = dfrmt_font;
this.dfrmt_size = dfrmt_size;
this.dfrmt_color = dfrmt_color;

// Create TextField
createTextfield();

}

private function createTextfield():TextField
{

// New TextField
this.tf = new TextField();

// Set Default TextFormat
setDefaultTextformat();

// Set Properties
this.tf.text = this.txt;
this.tf.name = this.instancename;
this.tf.textColor = this.color;
setAutosize(this.autosize);
setMultiline(this.multilinee);
setWordwrap(this.wordwrap);

trace("Textfield created");

// Add TextField to Displaylist
//addChild(this.tf);
return this.tf;

}

// Getters & Setters......

}
}
and test on timeline:

Code:

import TFCreator;

var ttxt:String = "Halloooo?";

var t1:TFCreator = new TFCreator(ttxt,"inst1",0x666666,"LEFT",false,false,"Arial",13,0x333333);
addChild(t1);
t1.x = 200;
t1.y = 300;
//t1.selectable = false;
t1.setText("Baaaaa");
trace(t1.getText());
//t1.setAutosize("CENTER");
trace(t1.getAutosize());
trace(t1);
getChildByName("inst1");
It seems to work ok it just wont show up on stage.

TextField: Can We Embed HTML In Textfield?
Hello all,

I know that textfield can embed HTML like:

Code:
createTextField("noteText", 1, 100, 100, 300, 30);
noteText.type = "dynamic";
noteText.wordWrap = true;
noteText.border = true;
noteText.html = true;
noteText.htmlText = 'This is HTML';
I wonder if we embed button, HTML input field int Flash textfield?

Code:
noteText.htmlText = '<input name="txtTest" type="text">';
Thanks,

Create Textfield With New Textfield Variable?
flash MX 2004 professional
--------------------------

anyone know if it's possible to create a dynamic textfield AND specify not only an instance name but also a textfield variable?

thx
eve

Cant Get Textfield Height From AutoSized Textfield
Afternoon guys.

I am creating a new nwe3s blogger. Instead of relying on a scrollbar to scroll the news story i thought i would use
code: textField.autosize="left"
This works fine...
At present i am loading x amount of news into flash at any one time. I am placing the news story underneath each other using
code:
holder.attachMovie ("newsMc", "news" + i, i);
holder['news' + i]._y = nextY;
nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + i]._height) + 2;

this is fine...
But when i use
code: textField.autosize="left"
nextY retains it's orginal height even though some of the news stories have made for higher textfields.

I thought i could pull the height from the previuosly created news holder
code:
if (i > 0) {
j = i - 1;
trace (j + " text height=" + holder['news' + j].newsStory._height);
if (holder['news' + j].newsStory._height > 184) {
nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + j]._height) + 2;
} else {
nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + j]._height) + 2;
trace ("nextY=" + nextY);
}

But this still returns the intial height

Here is the complete code
code:
for (i = 0; i < this.newsCount; i++) {
holder.attachMovie ("newsMc", "news" + i, i);
holder['news' + i]._y = nextY;
holder['news' + i].newsTitle.text = this['news' + i + 'newsTitle'];
holder['news' + i].newsDate.text = "Submitted: " + this['news' + i + 'newsDate'];
holder['news' + i].newsStory.htmlText = this['news' + i + 'newsStory'];
nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + i]._height) + 2;
if (i > 0) {
j = i - 1;
trace (j + " text height=" + holder['news' + j].newsStory._height);
if (holder['news' + j].newsStory._height > 184) {
nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + j]._height) + 2;
} else {
nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + j]._height) + 2;
trace ("nextY=" + nextY);
}
}
unloadMovie (dtLoader);
viser._visible = 0;
}

Cant Get Textfield Height From AutoSized Textfield
Afternoon guys.

I am creating a new nwe3s blogger. Instead of relying on a scrollbar to scroll the news story i thought i would use

ActionScript Code:
textField.autosize="left"
This works fine...
At present i am loading x amount of news into flash at any one time. I am placing the news story underneath each other using

ActionScript Code:
holder.attachMovie ("newsMc", "news" + i, i);
holder['news' + i]._y = nextY;
nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + i]._height) + 2;
this is fine...
But when i use

ActionScript Code:
textField.autosize="left"
nextY retains it's orginal height even though some of the news stories have made for higher textfields.

I thought i could pull the height from the previuosly created news holder

ActionScript Code:
if (i > 0) {
j = i - 1;
trace (j + " text height=" + holder['news' + j].newsStory._height);
if (holder['news' + j].newsStory._height > 184) {
nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + j]._height) + 2;
} else {
nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + j]._height) + 2;
trace ("nextY=" + nextY);
}
But this still returns the intial height

Here is the complete code

ActionScript Code:
for (i = 0; i < this.newsCount; i++) {
holder.attachMovie ("newsMc", "news" + i, i);
holder['news' + i]._y = nextY;
holder['news' + i].newsTitle.text = this['news' + i + 'newsTitle'];
holder['news' + i].newsDate.text = "Submitted: " + this['news' + i + 'newsDate'];
holder['news' + i].newsStory.htmlText = this['news' + i + 'newsStory'];
nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + i]._height) + 2;
if (i > 0) {
j = i - 1;
trace (j + " text height=" + holder['news' + j].newsStory._height);
if (holder['news' + j].newsStory._height > 184) {
nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + j]._height) + 2;
} else {
nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + j]._height) + 2;
trace ("nextY=" + nextY);
}
}
unloadMovie (dtLoader);
viser._visible = 0;
}

TextField.multiline Or TextField.wordWrap
i know TextField.multiline.
actually, i don't know what is difference if the text's multiline is true.

i used to set text wordWrap is true without multiline

INPUT TextField Within An HTML TextField Via <img>
I'm trying to extend an HTML TextField to include an INPUT TextField control as an <img> tag. This I can do. The problem is that mouse and keyboard events are not being seen by the inner TextField. I created a test case to demonstrate the situation. My guess is that <img> tags are treated like AS2 events and because the outer TextField is trapping text events, they are not propagated to the inner TextField. Is there anyway around this problem? Mouse events to other DisplayObjects work fine. I'm using Flash CS3.

The test case contains two classes. TextImgTest is the document class for TextImgTest.fla. TestImg implements the <img> loaded by TestImgTest. To run this. Just create an empty TextImgTest.fla and set the document class to TextImgTest. Then publish and run.

Attach Code

package
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.TimerEvent;
import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.StyleSheet;
import flash.utils.Timer;
import TestImg;

public class TextImgTest extends MovieClip
{
public var textField: TextField;
public var styleSheet: StyleSheet;
public var img: TestImg;
public var timer: Timer;

public function TextImgTest(): void
{
// render directly
img = new TestImg();
addChild(img);
// render within a TextField as an <img> tag.
styleSheet = new StyleSheet();
styleSheet.setStyle("p", {fontFamily:"sans-serif", fontSize:"10"});
textField = new TextField();
textField.styleSheet = styleSheet;
textField.multiline = true;
textField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
textField.wordWrap = true;
textField.border = true;
textField.borderColor = 0x0000FF;
textField.background = true;
textField.backgroundColor = 0xFFCCFF;
textField.width = 190;
textField.x = 5;
textField.y = 120;
textField.htmlText = "TextField with an <img src='TestMsg' id='rmk'> tag: <img src='TestImg' id='rmk'>"
addChild(textField);
textField.selectable = true;
textField.mouseEnabled = true;
// Give it a little time to render then get a reference to it.
timer = new Timer(3000, 1);
timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, onTimeout);
timer.start();
}

public function onTimeout(evt: TimerEvent): void
{
var freeText: TestImg = textField.getImageReference("rmk") as TestImg;
freeText.tField.mouseEnabled = true;
freeText.tField.selectable = true;
freeText.tField.appendText(" Got ImageReference for 'rmk'.");
}
}
}
===================================================
package
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.display.SimpleButton;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
import flash.text.TextFormat;
import flash.text.TextFormatAlign;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFieldType;

public class TestImg extends MovieClip
{
static public const MSG_WIDTH: int = 170;
static public const MSG_HEIGHT: int = 100;
static public const MSG_MARGIN: int = 8;

public var tFmt: TextFormat;
public var tField: TextField;
public var sBut: SimpleButton;

public function TestImg(): void
{
super();
this.tabEnabled = false;
this.mouseEnabled = false;
// Show this MovieClip
with (this.graphics)
{
clear();
beginFill(0x9999FF);
drawRect(0, 0, MSG_WIDTH, MSG_HEIGHT);
endFill();
}
// Show the INPUT TextField within it.
tFmt = new TextFormat("_sans", 10, 0x000000, true, false,
false, null, null,
TextFormatAlign.LEFT);
tField = new TextField();
tField.type = TextFieldType.INPUT;
tField.height = MSG_HEIGHT - 2*MSG_MARGIN - 16;
tField.defaultTextFormat = tFmt;
tField.multiline = true;
tField.wordWrap = true;
tField.width = MSG_WIDTH - 2*MSG_MARGIN;
tField.border = true;
tField.borderColor = 0xFF0000;
tField.background = true;
tField.backgroundColor = 0xFFEECC;
tField.x = MSG_MARGIN;
tField.y = MSG_MARGIN;
tField.text = "TestImg MovieClip containing an INPUT TextField.";
this.addChild(tField);
tField.selectable = true;
tField.mouseEnabled = true;
// Show the button within this MovieClip
var butGraphics1: Sprite = new Sprite();
with (butGraphics1.graphics)
{
lineStyle(1, 0x000000);
beginFill(0xFF0000);
drawRect(0, 0, 32, 16);
endFill();
}
var butGraphics2: Sprite = new Sprite();
with (butGraphics2.graphics)
{
lineStyle(1, 0x000000);
beginFill(0x00FF00);
drawRect(0, 0, 32, 16);
endFill();
}
sBut = new SimpleButton();
sBut.upState = butGraphics1;
sBut.overState = butGraphics2;
sBut.downState = butGraphics1;
sBut.hitTestState = butGraphics2;
sBut.x = MSG_MARGIN;
sBut.y = MSG_HEIGHT - MSG_MARGIN - 16;
this.addChild(sBut);
}

}
}

[ac-mx-04]duplicate A Textfield OR Doing A Textfield With Outlines.
Either I want code to duplicate a textfiled OR...
To do a textfield that that font outlines on "§!"#¤%&/()=?`@£${[]}¨^~'*-_.:,;<>|qwertyuiopåasdfg hjklöäzxcvbnmQWERTYUIOPÅASDFGHJKLÖÄZXCVBNM01234567 89"
And some others settings:
font: fixed_v01
color: white
align: left
size: 8
selectable: NO
render as html: yes

Can someone help me with this?

Cant Get Textfield Height From AutoSized Textfield
Afternoon guys.
I am creating a new nwe3s blogger. Instead of relying on a scrollbar to scroll the news story i thought i would use

ActionScript Code:
textField.autosize="left"

This works fine...
At present i am loading x amount of news into flash at any one time. I am placing the news story underneath each other using

ActionScript Code:

holder.attachMovie ("newsMc", "news" + i, i);
holder['news' + i]._y = nextY;
nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + i]._height) + 2;


this is fine...
But when i use

ActionScript Code:
textField.autosize="left"

nextY retains it's orginal height even though some of the news stories have made for higher textfields.
I thought i could pull the height from the previuosly created news holder

ActionScript Code:

if (i > 0) {
j = i - 1;
trace (j + " text height=" + holder['news' + j].newsStory._height);
if (holder['news' + j].newsStory._height > 184) {
nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + j]._height) + 2;
} else {
nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + j]._height) + 2;
trace ("nextY=" + nextY);
}


But this still returns the intial height
Here is the complete code

ActionScript Code:

for (i = 0; i < this.newsCount; i++) {
 holder.attachMovie ("newsMc", "news" + i, i);
 holder['news' + i]._y = nextY;
 holder['news' + i].newsTitle.text = this['news' + i + 'newsTitle'];
 holder['news' + i].newsDate.text = "Submitted: " + this['news' + i + 'newsDate'];
 holder['news' + i].newsStory.htmlText = this['news' + i + 'newsStory'];
 nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + i]._height) + 2;
 if (i > 0) {
 j = i - 1;
 trace (j + " text height=" + holder['news' + j].newsStory._height);
 if (holder['news' + j].newsStory._height > 184) {
 nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + j]._height) + 2;
 } else {
 nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + j]._height) + 2;
 trace ("nextY=" + nextY);
 }
 }
 unloadMovie (dtLoader);
 viser._visible = 0;
}

Cant Get Textfield Height From AutoSized Textfield
Afternoon guys.

I am creating a new nwe3s blogger. Instead of relying on a scrollbar to scroll the news story i thought i would use

ActionScript Code:
textField.autosize="left"

This works fine...
At present i am loading x amount of news into flash at any one time. I am placing the news story underneath each other using

ActionScript Code:
holder.attachMovie ("newsMc", "news" + i, i);
holder['news' + i]._y = nextY;
nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + i]._height) + 2;

this is fine...
But when i use

ActionScript Code:
textField.autosize="left"

nextY retains it's orginal height even though some of the news stories have made for higher textfields.

I thought i could pull the height from the previuosly created news holder

ActionScript Code:
if (i > 0) {
j = i - 1;
trace (j + " text height=" + holder['news' + j].newsStory._height);
if (holder['news' + j].newsStory._height > 184) {
nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + j]._height) + 2;
} else {
nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + j]._height) + 2;
trace ("nextY=" + nextY);
}

But this still returns the intial height

Here is the complete code

ActionScript Code:
for (i = 0; i < this.newsCount; i++) {
holder.attachMovie ("newsMc", "news" + i, i);
holder['news' + i]._y = nextY;
holder['news' + i].newsTitle.text = this['news' + i + 'newsTitle'];
holder['news' + i].newsDate.text = "Submitted: " + this['news' + i + 'newsDate'];
holder['news' + i].newsStory.htmlText = this['news' + i + 'newsStory'];
nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + i]._height) + 2;
if (i > 0) {
j = i - 1;
trace (j + " text height=" + holder['news' + j].newsStory._height);
if (holder['news' + j].newsStory._height > 184) {
nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + j]._height) + 2;
} else {
nextY += Math.ceil (holder['news' + j]._height) + 2;
trace ("nextY=" + nextY);
}
}
unloadMovie (dtLoader);
viser._visible = 0;
}

Should I Update?
I use flash 3 and am wondering if it is worth getting a newer version? I've also seen many other macromedia products like Director and Dreamweaver etc. Are these the top of the range in their category iereamweaver (site making etc)
Thanks for your help

UPDATE X & Y
I'm trying to track the cusor and display the x and y coords in dynamic text fields.
Heres what I have:
/*I created 2 dynamic text fields and gave them var names of
xpos and ypos inside a new mc. I placed the new mc on the main stage*/

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
xpos = _root.blank._x;
ypos = _root.blank._y;
}

/*Then made another new mc named cross hairs placed on the main stage*/

onClipEvent (load) {
Mouse.hide();
}
onClipEvent (mouseMove) {
_x = _root._xmouse;
_y = _root._ymouse;
updateAfterEvent();
}

Everything works great execpt the x and y only show the first 3 digits, no decimals. BUT WAIT!!! In Flash 5, the movie works great in test mode, but when exported to .swf format it only shows 3 digits. (Ocassionaly I'll see a .95 pop up on the xpos field.) BUT THERES MORE!!! In a Flash 5 exported movie, that isnt working, it will work if I manually resize the window, or full screen it. Crazy! In Flash MX, it does exactly the same thing but will not work in test mode or a manually resized window like in Flash 5.
Any thought would be appreciated!!!!

Update On The Fly?
Forgive me if this is an idiotic question. If it is, you can give me an idiotic answer. =)

But can flash update itself on the fly? Lets say i have a dynamic text field that gets variables from a .txt file.
Lets say the output on the screen is just, "Hello World!"

Is it possible to loop the movie over and over so that if i changed the .txt file to, "Hello Back!" then suddenly the flash movie will say, Hello Back. ???

Without user intervention?

Thanks..

Indy

---update---
I am having trouble updating movieClips after code is completed. Here's my problem:

I have created the basis for a scrolling Thumbnail gallery for my website where a line of thumbnails can be scrolled past a masked view window. I also want a status bar to appear at the bottom of the screen with a small movie clip that marks which part of the thumbnail bar is currently being displayed in the view window. I have worked ou the maths to calculate this and have put in the actionscript that I thought would make it fully operational. The script works to a certain degree. When i test the movie, the status movie clip does in fact sit at the point on the line that corresponds to the visible part of the thumbnail strip. However, it does not move along the bar as the thumbnail strip is scrolled. How do I get the status movieClip to constantly update it's position according to the co-ordinates sent to it by the script?

Attached is the .fla file, I hope it helps to clarify my problem!

Will There Be Another Update Soon?
I've been developing with flash since v3 and I've had more trouble with bugs in MX2004 than any previous release. One that really burns me is that the keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste frames does not work. I'm running Flash MX Professional 2004 7.0.1 on a G5 mac OS 10.3.2. Anyone else experienced this?

Can We Update A .swf?
hi guys.....plz help me out!

i'm loading a buttons.swf with few buttons, into a flash projecter. Now if i have to add few more buttons to that buttons.swf which is on users computer, and i want to add them to it through a downloaded file(update) from internet, without overwriting the previous file.....then is it possible????

thanx in advance!

.exe Update
OK, I'm making a .exe file in Flash (that is, I'm making it in Flash to publish as .exe), and there's a button which hopefully will be for updating.

The button needs to check an internal value (version number) against a value in a web page, and, if they're the same, display an error message saying No updated availabale, and if they're different, goto the page.

So, if there is no update available:
User clicks button.
Button checks values against each other.
Without loading webpage, displays message saying No Updates.

And if there are updates,
User clicks button.
Button checks values and finds they're different.
Goes to update webpage.

So, put in a generalish form,

Code:
if (currentversion == latestversion) {
//show error
}
else {
getURL("http://www.update.me/now");
}
The only problem with that is latestversion can't be inside Flash.

If you don't understand, I'll try and explain it better

Any ideas?