Flash :: The Mystery Of The Disappearing Text Headers

Scrolling Text Mystery
Hi,
Got a fla that has a box that has a title of news... then it scrolls through some text. I believe this is Flash 5.. because it uses 'setproperty' (which I think is no longer used in MX - components?).I'm still not sure exactly how this works but I have gone thru and identified the symbols (mc) being used. On the main timeline (index.mc) there are 2 layers:
1. news patch and 2. news scroll

on the 1 layer (news patch) - there is one graphic item (vertical white rectangle with a non-fill box (this is where you can view the text as it scrolls) section [looks like a mask section to me], [named: news patch_mc].

on the 2nd layer [news scroll_mc]
inside this mc, contains 2 layers:
layer 1: mcnewsscroll_blank_mc and
layer 2: news text_mc

layer 1 : mcnewsscroll_blank_mc -has 4 keyframes of actionscript as defined:
(1) pos = 200;
(2) pos = pos-1;
setProperty (_parent.newstext, _y, pos);
if (getProperty ( _parent.newstext, _y )<=-320) {
gotoAndPlay (1);
}
(3) gotoAndPlay(2);
(4) stop();

layer 2: news text_mc -is <Dynamic text> <Multi line> <Render text as HTML> Variable:_root.index.des_news

BIG Question: ... how and where do I find _root.index.des_news... when I tried to recreate this section of the fla... I am unable to see anything scroll, ... how do I recreate this des_news (or) How do I direct this mc to find the text file?
I found the (address to the text file?) text file that was included with the fla:

text file:
message1=Durrani Law Firm Debuts New Website&link1=http://www.durrani.com/newsite/news.html#newsite&date1=12/12/03&message2=Get all the latest immigration news here!&link2=http://www.durrani.com/newsite/news.html#immigNews&date2=12/12/03&totalMessages=2
this file is named durraniNews.text

I guess it is telling the mc to find the text file at this http address. I have no idea how to rewrite this line of code to something that I can use. (I don't see where in the mc it calles the ? message1 or 2 if this is where the text is coming from. I am unable to pull up the page that this is going to (http://www.durrani.com/newsite/news.html (page cannot be found)
When I run the original fla - text is scrolling... when I run my fla... (pretty much copied the layers and actions to a new fla) There is no scrolling text.

My site is www.frustrated-inc.com, and I'm looking for a way to replace this text... if it has to come from an http address, could someone help me out with the correct way to write this in relationship to my site. And if anyone can explain what is actually happening with these mc inside mc and how they work together to get the scrolling effect thru action script inside the mc.
I'm a self taught flasher and rely on flash guru's to help me through some of these situations. Any suggestions or explainations are greatly appreciated! GOD BLESS YOU!

I am also interested in learning how to further my actionscript skills...best books, methods, courses, etc. that might help me further these skills. Please let me know how to become a better flasher.
Many Thanks...

Kim
kim@frustrated-inc.com
I can provide fla's or hopefully any other information that may be needed to resolve this issue.

Mystery Of The Invisible Text
Oi there

Has anyone noticed that when you put dynamic text inside a mask it disappears, but when you change the same text to static text it becomes visible.

Why does this happen? is there a way to keep your text box dynamic, but stil put it behind a mask?

Flabbergasted

Help With Mystery Text In Flash File
I have a flash movie file in .swf format that was inherited from the previous programmer who left it protected and locked.

I located a utility on the web that allowed me to remove the password and protection, but when I try to save a new version as an .fla file it won't allow me. Instead I get a message that says "An unknown error occurred while accessing <..filename>".  Could this be because I'm using a bootleg utility to unlock the file?

What I'm trying to do is simply change 3 lines of text embedded somewhere in an 897 frame flash file (address change) When I look at the file with a text editor, of course everything else is just machine language but.. I can actually see the text for the address.

I'm pretty new to Flash...Does this mean the text is in some sort of action script or embedded format? The site is at www.situscos.com. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Crisp, Clear & Aliased Text Mystery & Solution?
Most of the time I'm here asking questions, so I thought I'd post a help thread for those struggling with blurry font/text issues.

Among the tips I've read:

- Make sure to select the Aliased Text option
- Use pixel fonts
- Only use multiples of the size intended (ie, 8,16,24,32, etc...)
- Make sure the X & Y locations of your text are integers (ie, 10, not 10.4)
- If your text is nested inside an MC or multiple MCs, make sure all MCs X&Y locations are integers
- Use a Dynamic Text Field

Here's one more tip I realized after weeks upon weeks of frustration (if you don't want to use Dynamic Text):

- Make sure that Flash doesn't try to mess with the size percentages in the Transform Panel. I recently discovered that for some odd reason Flash will tweak the vertical % by a decimal, thereby throwing off the Static Text integers you originally set. Normally, one would expect non-transformed text to have a 100% horizontal and 100% vertical settings, but sometimes when you move text around the screen and/or fix a decimal problem, the vertical size setting will change to 100.1%, 100.3% or 100.6%. Clicking on the 'Reset' button in the Transform Panel (bottom right button) forces both settings back to 100%. Sometimes in resetting the percentages, you should then check the X&Y values AGAIN, as sometimes they will change as a result, and you'll have to enter new integers again.

Disappearing Text
Hi all, in a bind here.

I'm editing a file containing text which must be HelveticaNeue Medium Condensed. Upon loading the file Flash asks me to substitute the font, even though I do have the font on my machine. Unlike any other font, (HelveticaNeue Medium Condensed) is displayed with parenthesis when I select it within Flash's drop down box in the properties panel.

Main problem is when I build the swf the text does not appear, the box is completely blank.

Any ideas? When I select "View/Antialias Text" the text does appear smoothed which is supposed to indicate the font is properly embedded.

Thanks so much!

Disappearing Text.
When I rotate text 90o and convert it to a symbol and add actionscript it disappears from the movie when I test it. Rotate it back so it is in the normal position and it appears again. Why is it doing this and is there a way to make it appear when rotated?
Thanks
ES

Disappearing Text?
I was making a rolling credit scene using motion tween. The text were like 45 points. Since it was a very long list it had to go out of the far off boundary where you can't see it when editing. I previewed the scene and like around in the middle the text just disappears below. What the heck is that about?

Disappearing Text?
Hi guys

I'm creating this flash app which is generating a rather strange bug.
On some computers, when you move the mouse over a dynamic textfield on the stage, the text disappears... The entire textfield doesnt necessarily disappear, just where the mouse goes over an individual letter........

so if you had the word "monkey" and hovered the mouse over "mon", you'd be left with "key"

Has anyone experienced this problem before?

Here's the URL if anyone fancies a play:
http://www.frema.ecs.soton.ac.uk/db/...ble=conceptmap

Disappearing Text
When I export my completed flash project and move it offsite onto another computer the text does not appear. I am not using a custom text throughout my site. I used Arial hroughout the whole site to try and avoid this problem however even using Arial it doesn't appear.

Does anyone know why and if so how i can fix the problem? Am i exporting it wrongly?

[F8] Disappearing Text
Dear All

I have a text component which I have linked to an external sytle sheet and a text file (all located in the same folder).

I convereted the text component to a movie clip so that I could have it coming in from the side of my file. This all worked fine and dandy.

I then decided that a mask would be a good idea, just ot tidy it up. I placed a mask fdirectly above the text layer and linked them.

The mc (with the component) flies in very neatly now, but the text has disappeared. In the help files I read something that gave me the idea of turning the mask into an mc but that didn't help.

The attached fla shows what I mean - press the "about us" link

I would greately value any support

thanks

Edward

Disappearing Text
I'm trying to create a quick animation...I have the first part of it all set, but then when I try to put a motion tween with text....it all disappears and only the 1st part (that i didnt want a motion tween in) stays and floats around the stage...I have no idea whats going on...please help?

[CS3] Disappearing Text
When I publish as both SWF and EXE, not all of my text blocks appear. Most of them do, but there are two areas that just show up as blank.

Any suggestions before I slit my wrist?

[CS3] Text Disappearing? HUH?
http://www.wardrobeworldbrissouth.co...be_trends.html

The above link is my website I'm nearly finished on. However, there is something that is bugging me, and forever will continue to bug me until I figure out whats wrong. You will see a few links at the top of the page:
Walk-
Reach-
Linen
and so on.

Where it says Walk-...its meant to say Walk-in...

Here is what I HAVE done on my FLA file:
Embedded every item of text in that box.
Actually written in the word "In"
Resized the .swf file that it is now so that it is 1000 * 600 instead of 1200 * 800
Even when it was at 1200 * 800 (in both the dreamweaver import, and the 'test movie' section of flash) the text seems to be missing.

WHAT IS WRONG?
Let me know if I have to upload the FLA and I will next time I'm at THAT computer.

(it is the same thing for all the other wardrobe designs too, except Reach-In...which has for some reason got smaller sized text)

Text Disappearing
I've run into a peculiar problem with a Flash subpage (several of them actually).

On all of the following pages the header text for the garments shown (the bold text on the top left with the drop-shadow) will have sections cut off the end or the beginning as if there were a transparency layer issue. The problem is intermittent and only happens when you click on the icons at the top in a certain order. It almost seems arbitrary and random.

The files are at:

http://www.flagsgolf.com/cgsflash.html
http://www.flagsgolf.com/mockflash.html
http://www.flagsgolf.com/ls_trous.html

I have moved all of the text in question onto the top layer of the master file and this anomaly does not show up when testing the file in Flash itself. Please let me know if anyone can think of an obvious solution.

Andy

Disappearing Text
I have a dynamic text field that has the text in it. I've made it dynamic in order to refer to it in some code for a scroller. The text is on the screen when I'm in production, but when I preview the movie, the text does not appear. I did a trace on the text field, and it says it's there, but the text is missing. Any thoughts on where it went?

Disappearing Text.. ?
i'm creating a text button, i transform it to rotate 90 CCW and it disappears out of sight..

funny thing is, if i'm using a rollover, the rollovers work but the text doesn't show up...

why would a simple transform make the text not show up?

Disappearing Text (again)
I want to create a site in which all graphics, and user interface elements (text/form fields etc.) are skewed and rotated. So I've been experimenting a bit with dynamic textfields, and have gotten myself into serious problems!!!

It would seem that a rotated textfield need to have an embedded font in order to show, so I've created a font in the library, and given it a linkage identifier ("myfont") for use with the textFormat() class.

Here's the code for that part:

Code:
var my_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
my_fmt.font = "myfont";
my_fmt.color = 0xFFFFFF;
Next, I created the textfield itself ("my_txt"). It can contain HTML, so I also load an external stylesheet for the purpose of formatting the text:

Code:
var styleObj = new TextField.StyleSheet();
styleObj.load('style.css');
styleObj.onLoad = function(success) {
if (!success) {
setText(my_txt, "could not load CSS!");
} else {
setText(my_txt,str);
}
my_txt._visible = true;
};
Oh, and I set the embedFonts flag to true:

my_txt.embedFonts = true;

Now were getting to the part strange part... the setText() function seems to depend on commands in a certain order, to avoid problems with non-appearing text ? If I change the order of a single of these lines, the function refuse to work:

Code:
function setText(target, strText) {
target.htmlText = strText;
target.setTextFormat(my_fmt);
target.styleSheet = styleObj;
}
But worse is the fact that I cannot set the text later on. The text simply disappear if the setText() function is called more than once.

Anybody ?

Disappearing Text
i searched on this, but only found one post with the problem and it wasnt answered.

Anyway, i have a text field that I am setting multiline, wordWrap, autoSize all to true. Then I am embedding the font through the "character" button by choosing uppercase, lowercase, Numberals, and Punctuation. The problem is that my dynamic text gets assigned correctly, but the last line of multiline text items disappears. If I have 3 lines of text, it shows the first two lines, third one disappears. Anyone run into anything similar? This is MX 04 I am using.

SetChildIndex Of Text Field -- Text Disappearing?
I'm setting the child index of a dynamic text field so that it always sits on top of whatever else gets placed on the stage using the following code:

Code:
setChildIndex(fpsText, fpsText.parent.numChildren-1);
I've tried a number of variations, including this.numChildren-1, this.parent.numChildren-1, etc. Basically, if I get the text field to sit on top of everything like I want it to, then I only see the background color of the text field, but the text itself disappears. Does anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it?

Disappearing Lines Of Text
hi,
i've a strange problem trying to move some differently sized dynamic multiline text boxes. when you scroll up or down(using the up and down buttons in particular) all but the first lines of text are lost from the multiline boxes. but if you click on any of those, the text reappears. now it's not actually scrolling, it just redraws the boxes in different positions.
i have tried messing about with all the text box attributes, removed the drawn boxes, no luck. i am just wondering if anyone has come across this anomaly, or even it's just me.
here is the movie:
http://www.chistyler.com/dem.swf
thanks for any advice,

Chi

Disappearing Text In A Combo Box
I'm setting up an insect key using combo boxes. When the user chooses an answer in the combo box, it is replaced by a new one (or an answer appears). Sometimes, after 2 or so attachMovies (the combo boxes are inside MCs), the text disappears in the display. When you click on the box, you can see all of the choices, but once you choose something, you can't see it in the box.

I'm not using removeMovieClip to unload what's been loaded. I'm just attaching everything to level 1 and that clears out any loaded mc. Any ideas?

here's the swf so you can play with it. It's not complete, so you may run into dead ends. http://plaza.ufl.edu/tiberivs/key3.swf

Disappearing Text Fields
In the example code below, I create a dynamic text field with embedded fonts to display over a movie clip with a loaded jpg. The first text field displays correctly. However, as soon as additional fields are declared the first field disappears.

Why does the first text field disappear when I add additional text fields?

Code:

_root.createEmptyMovieClip("ourMovieClip",1);
ourMovieClip._x = 0;
ourMovieClip._y = 0;
_root.ourMovieClip.createEmptyMovieClip("holder",10);
_root.ourMovieClip.holder.loadMovie("b_dontwalk.jpg");
ourMovieClip.createTextField("counter",11,25,25,200,200);
ourMovieClip.counter.embedFonts = true;
ourMovieClip.counter.textColor = "0x000000";
newText1 = new TextFormat();
newText1.font = "Arial";
ourMovieClip.counter.text = '00:00:00';
ourMovieClip.counter.setTextFormat(newText1);
ourMovieClip.counter._alpha = 70;

ourMovieClip.createTextField("lyrics",11,25,250,200,200);
ourMovieClip.lyrics.embedFonts = true;
ourMovieClip.lyrics.textColor = "0x000000";
newText2 = new TextFormat();
newText2.font = "Arial";
ourMovieClip.lyrics.text = 'xx:xx:xx';
ourMovieClip.lyrics.setTextFormat(newText2);
ourMovieClip.lyrics._alpha = 70;

Disappearing Dynamic Text
Hello ladies and gents,

I am rookie .. . .so bear with me.

I have created several little movies, one of which contains some dynamic text and a universal time clock (which of course has to contain dynamic text as well), that are suppose to load into a parent movie. They do and they are all sexy and stuff, except for the one "child" that contains the above mentioned items . . . .they do not show up at all. All the other components of the movie work fine.

Please help a rookie out

aswg

ps: when I play the test movie, the dynamic text components and text show up. They just do not show up in the parent movie.

[F8] Partially Disappearing Text. Anyone Had This?
Hi all,
I have created a Flash program to teach 5th graders about Electrical circuits at this address:

http://www.goldenmultimedia.com/teslatime/pretest.html

It seems to work fine for me (and others), but today we tried it out with about 40+ kids in a local school, and some of the text was missing from the Question sections (after the video bit). Specifically the text was missing for Question #2, answer D. It should have read "D. When electrons break free and flow". Instead it just said "D. When electrons ". It happened in other spots too, but always in the Question sections, and sometimes the cutoff was even in the middle of a letter.

It seemed to happen only when we put a copy of the program on the local server (instead of accessing it over the web), but I wonder if the problem could be that I used the "drop shadow" filter on the text? I've heard cautions about using the filters, but I always thought it was just a frame rate issue. This was happening when the playhead was stopped. Each computer had the latest Flash Player.

I'll take any suggestions! Thanks,

- Kent

Text Embed Disappearing
So I have some dynamic text, I want it to fade out when I run a function.
I discover that you have to embed fonts or it'll just sit there and do nothing (I had already added a font to the library to cover the usage of a non system font). So I embed the font and discover that now when I change the text field from its original name it actually just disappears.
In fact if I take the textfield and just run embedfonts = true on it the it disappears.

Could anyone enlighten me to what stupid reason flash has for doing this?

Thanks in advance!!

note the clip is nested inside a parent clip, but I just tried it on the _root and it still disappeared

Dynamic Text (XML) Disappearing
I have a MC that is my button and inside that MC there are two frames:

- an up state that contains a dynamic text box (DTB) (with instance name and no var) and an outline.

- an over state that contains a DTB (with instance name and no var) and another MC for a fade-in background.

The data for these text boxes are being read from and XML file. All is great when I DON'T embed the fonts - except for any formatting on the DTB at all (spacing, bolding, etc.). So naturally, I thought I needed to embed the font outlines to get it to work; however, after embedding the font (tried using the ALL characters setting) - the font disappears completely when I test the movie.

Any ideas?

Environment:
Windows XP Pro
Flash CS3 Pro & Flash 8 Pro (same behavior)
AS 2.0 (publish setting)
Flash Player 8 (publish setting)

I've attached the .fla and the xml file.

Disappearing Text On Rotate
why is it that when I use transform to rotate a dynamic textbox the text no longer appears when i test the movie?

Help: Text Disappearing When Using MX Scrollbar
The process works fine when I test the swf, but then when I place the swf into a movieclip within a movieclip, the text disappears. Scroll bar seems to still be referring to the text, but the text is just no longer visible. Does anyone have any suggestions???

Disappearing Dynamic Text
i have a .fla file with some dynamic text. the text is visible when i'm editing the .fla file, but when i do a control-test movie or view the published .swf file, the text is not visible. any idea what's going on?

(by the way i'm using mx, not mx 2004).

the swf is posted at
http://www.ceip.us/flash/client_test.swf

and the .fla file is posted at
http://www.ceip.us/flash/client_test.fla

any input would be much appreciated. i'm stumped.

thanks a lot!
floyd.

Dynamic Text Disappearing
Hellos

If any kind soul can, pls help me with this, it would be great: I added an empty movie clip called mc to _level0 at runtime. Then within this for loop I dynamically added textfields. This part works fine.

Problem: When I click through the textfields, sometimes the text just disappears. I've tried doing a trace, and the actual values are in the text field, they just aren't visible. I've seen a lot of posts with similar problems around the net, but not quite sure what solves the problem. Am I missing something obvious?

Code:

for (i = 1; i <= total_photos ; i++)
{
//create text boxes
s = "p" + i;
var sTime = eval("myEvents.time" + i)

dStDate = getStartDate(iMode);
dEndDate = getEndDate(iMode);
dShowDate = getShowDate(sTime);
if (dStDate <= dShowDate && dShowDate <= dEndDate){
j = j + 1;
if (j==1){
txtName.text = eval("myEvents.caption" + i);
txtDescr.text = eval("myEvents.descr" + i);
txtTime.text = eval("myEvents.time" + i);
imgMC.loadMovie(folderName + s + ".gif");
}
yPos = 20 * (j-1) + 10;
_level0.mc.createTextField(s, 20 + i, 5, yPos, 240, 16);
_level0.mc[s].type = "dynamic";
_level0.mc[s].selectable = true;
_level0.mc[s].multiline = true;
_level0.mc[s].embedFonts = true;
_level0.mc[s].antiAliasType = "advanced";
_level0.mc[s].textColor = 0x7D7171;
_level0.mc[s].text = eval("myEvents.caption" + i);
if ((j & 1) == 0){
_level0.mc[s].background = true;
_level0.mc[s].backgroundColor = 0xE0DCDC;
}
else{
_level0.mc[s].background = false;
}
_level0.mc[s].setTextFormat(text_fmt);
_level0.mc[s].setNewTextFormat(text_fmt);
_level0.mc[s].onSetFocus = function()
{
sName = this._name;
iLen = sName.length;
iNum = sName.substr(1, iLen-1);
txtName.text = eval("myEvents.caption" + iNum);
txtDescr.text = eval("myEvents.descr" + iNum);
txtTime.text = eval("myEvents.time" + iNum);
current_photo = folderName + sName + ".gif";
imgMC.loadMovie(current_photo);
imgMC._x = 220 + (320 - imgMC._width)/2;
this.background = true;
this.backgroundColor = 0xffffff;
}
_level0.mc[s].onRelease = function()
{
stext = this.text;
this.text = stext;
}
_level0.mc[s].onKillFocus = function()
{
sName = this._name;
iNum = sName.substr(1, sName.length-1);
if ((iNum & 1) == 0){
this.background = true;
this.backgroundColor = 0xE0DCDC;
}
else{
this.background = false;
}
}
}
}
_level0.mc._height = (j+1) * 20;
};

AS2: Am I XML Blind? Text Disappearing
I have a card like movieclip that contains a textfield that calls in the XML fine. But then when I motion tween and tilt the movieclip the text in the text field disappears for no reason - when I change the field to just static text and enter some jargon it works fine - so why does dynamic text disappear when ever I tilt the moveclip it sits in.

The effect I am making it like a deck of cards being dealt out so they slide across the screen at different angles.

Disappearing Text And Images
I have created a dynamic photo book using the pageflip code from 'http://www.iparigrafika.hu/pageflip/ ' the problem is when you are turning the pages both the text and images disappear.

the text is being load into a dynamic text which is on one of the page flip movies clips, and the image is loaded using loadMovie(image,"place_holder"), any suggestions on how to get the image and text to stay on the screen while the page is turning or at the very least keep the image there.

Thank you

The Case Of The Disappearing Dynamic Text
I'm working on a sub-movie to load into my larger main window, and my dynamic text is disappearing. I'm setting it based on the position ("target") of a "cursor" that tracks over a small version of a larger collage of images. The cursor controls the x/y pos of a larger image masked on this sub-movie. This sub-movie loads beneath yet another mask in the main windowing movie. The text is _root level in the sub-movie. It shows up fine when I run the sub-movie alone, but if I load it, the text disappears. Curiously enough, the cursor turns to an I over where it SHOULD be. I'm loading the text out of a multidimensional array contained within the cursor object (_root.cursor). Are there any known issues with dynamic text, masks, and the like? Any settings I should try? Thanks in advance!

Movie Clips - Disappearing Text
Hi there,

I have movie clips in my animation which consist of a rectangle shape and a dynamic textbox. These movie clips are rotated when the user clicks a button.

Everything works fine except that when the clip is rotated the text disappears. Once rotated back to the horizontal it reappears.

Anyone have any clue why this is happening, and how it can be fixed?

Many thanks.

Embed Fonts - Disappearing Text
Attached you will find some sources:embed 2.fla illustrates the problem
arial.fla is just a dynamically loaded font library
info.xml is just some external text

Currently embed 2.fla works as it is. However, if you change anyone of the TextFields in the GUI to a font type of "arial" all of the embedded text will disappear. However, if they are anything but arial (as that font face is set in the info.xml file), they embed correct and display just fine.

How do I set the TextFields in the GUI to arial so that if no font face is provided in the external text it will default to arial?

Thanks for looking.

Text Disappearing With Render HTML
Ok, i have a dynamic text box and the variable for the text is in the root. The only html tag I am using is <br>. If the text is displayed without html it works fine, but as soon as i enable Render as HTML, the text field goes blank. how do i fix this problem?

Current Format for variable is:

faqContent = "this is the content<br>of the faq.";

Disappearing Button Component Text
link here

To see the bugs, click on "mercury battery adapters" from the menu, then click on an image on the side. There is a Button that shows up, but doesn't display any text on it. There is also another one on the site, but it does the same thing.

I have heard this might be from having a mask in my index movie (which loads the child movies). I DO have the component in the index animation aswell, so it's not that. Any ideas? Thanks a ton.

Dynamic Text Disappearing - More Info
Any pointers in the right direction will earn you a virtual shout Guys, I neglected to mention a few things in my last post about text disappearing:

I have a movie clip (MC) into which a bunch of textfields are dynamically added. MC is masked by a movieclip (maskedView); this is done at runtime. I've implemented the scroll bar functionality (which is why I need the mask) and added the dynamic textfields to work so that when one of them is clicked, the corresponding image is shown in a separate movie clip (imgMC).

I've been nosing around Flash sites, and mostly it seems as if :
embedFonts needs to be true,
and a new font has to be created, and assigned to each text field.

I've done this, but my text still disappear and reappear - sometimes - when I click on the textfields randomly.

Pls help!

Dynamic Text Boxes Disappearing
Has anyone ever encountered this problem before? I have 3 dynamic text boxes in a movie. They all run off the same variable. One of the text boxes displays fine when published and printed. The other 2 disappear when printed or published. If I switch the disappearing text boxes to static, they appear just fine, however static text boxes will not work for these purposes. I have searched through all my code and I cannot find anything that would lead this to happen, especially considering that one of them works perfectly.

A little background on the project. It is an advertising web application. The end user is able to customize their own newspaper ads from a bunch of premade templates. They enter their info into the text fields, drag and drop a graphic or two and hit print. They have 2 options when printing, print 1 to a page or 2. The print 1 up dynamic text field displays fine. Behind the background (so it cannot be seen) exists the 2 up movie clip. Inside it are two exact duplicates of the print 1 up movieclip, just rotated and scaled so they will fit on one 8.5x11 piece of paper. Both of these have a dynamic text box (the copyright text) that disappears when printed or published to SWF. Rather than having to switch the copyright date on every newspaper ad section, I set it within the left navigation using the simple hardcode:

Code:
_root.copyright = "2008 ..."
This way it only needs to be set in one place per year very simply. I do not understand how the exact same symbol can display fine one way and not at all in another instance of that same symbol. Is this a flash bug or is there something I may have missed?

Input TextField : Disappearing Text
Check this out:
http://starcam.com/camraw

Use Safari or Firefox - IE is not an issue.

Try entering text in the username/password field a few times.
You will probably notice that on a pretty regular basis the text will disappear as you type.

Has anyone else seen this...and can anyone confirm what I am seeing?

Note: I have found that this problems shows up more often if you select the input textfield and type something - then select all text you just typed and delete using backspace. Once you delete the text...start typing again...you should see it.

Text Appearing And Disappearing In Flash
newbie here. i'm trying to make a simple flash movie that has a talk balloon/bubble used (like in cartoon strips in the newspaper to show a character talking) and then different text appearing and disappearing. That's it.

how do i do it?

seems that after buying some flash books, I use the alpha channel to make things appear and disappear (opacity) . Fine by me. But i can't seem to access it for the different text layers that i made. so do i have to make differrent movie symbols for each text script?

i'm lost at the very beginning here, as i'm new with flash, and my first thing is making text appear and disappear, rather than the more conventional animation.

please help.

thanks, b