Flash :: What Is Up With " ' " Characters In External Txt Files?

Using Characters In External Text Files.
how would i put a link like this from an external text field. I know i can put %26 for a &. but i still can't seem to get it right.

OLDHAM+STREET,+MANCHESTER,+EN,+UK&uid=u0k9j3rcc2kd y8ba:25g08g1ay5&lat=534817&lng=-22368&country=UK&level=9&style=3&width=390&height= 245]http://www.mapquest.co.uk/cgi-bin/ia_find?link=btwn/twn-map_results&event=find_select&search=[1-11]OLDHAM+STREET,+MANCHESTER,+EN,+UK&uid=u0k9j3rcc2kd y8ba:25g08g1ay5&lat=534817&lng=-22368&country=UK&level=9&style=3&width=390&height= 245

It's important i can show such detailed urls.

Anyone know a link or what is not being recognised, it's pretty urgent.
Thanks a lot.

External Text Files And Invalid Characters
I'm calling a bunch of external text files into flash, but they have the % and & signs in them, what can I do to make those symbols actually show up with the swfs are viewed?

Special Characters External Text Files
Help, I have a dynamic text box that calls in an external text file. My question is how do you write the code for special characters i.e. & and "" within the text file so that they work!! The normal tags work <b> and <li> but I can't get the others to.

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

I've tried:
The local T&S store had a "jolly good turnout&quote:

Have I written it wrong! Can anyone help me?

Thanks Dani

Bracket Characters From External Text Files
Greetings

I am just curious how one would get "<" and ">" to work if you use external say... .txt file for a textfield...

So say I put in my textfile
-----------

textfield= The cookies were great ---> and so was the milk<br><br>Yes I love cookies.

---------

The <br> is html, but the ---> is not, yet it won't show...

Same goes for other characters, such as "&", ", '

Any ideas what to dew?

Characters Not Appearing In External Text Files.
Hello all,

I've posed this question before but have yet to find a good solutuion. I have the problem using either external text files, or loading text from an XML file. Doesn't matter if the font is embedded with special characters or not. Basically, many non-letter characters such as % & # + are not showing up. I end up with nothing for that character. For the text file it can be fixed by using the unicode or whatever - %2B for + for example. While this works, it's not a good soltution as I need the client to generate the text files and that doesn't make it very easy. For the XML (for a news-ticker type thing), this doesn't work at all.

So what is the deal here and how can I fix this? Thanks!

Some Characters Dont Work When Calling External TXT Files
for some reason characters dont work when I am calling an external TXT File.

Characters such as ' or " or a TM .

Does anyone know how to get this working correctly?

Accented Characters Support For External Text Files
Hi there! I created a site which imports external text from a TXT file. The text is in Spanish, so I need accented vowels and Ã‘s. I've tried using simple text and HTML text... but when I run my movie, it doesn't show these international characters. Instead, I get some weird symbols or question marks... What should I do? Thanks in advance!

Special Characters, In Scroll Windows From External Text. Files ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?
Here is where we get into the problem:

I need my accent over the letter "E", in the word carpe'. My text is coming from an external txt. file which is created on a mac, in a program known as TEXTEDIT. I can get the "E" with the accent over it in text edit, but once the text is loaded into the dynamic text, place, in my scroller. The accent comes up as a greater than or equal symbol. I tried, entering a number: u00e9, into the special characters to add in the embeded font area, but I had no luck. Is this the right track? is there another code for the special character I need to add? Is the txt. program no good? Can I do this as another file?

Anyone have any clues?

External Txt Files WITH "special Characters"
Hi.. Does anybody know of a fla file that uses an external txt file to show text in the swf, BUT that als shows special characters in the text?

Thanks in advance.

Tian shi

Phunny Characters, Loaded From Txt Files?
Hey,

I want to load txtfiles in Flash wich contain characters like ë é ä and such...
The problem is that Flash replaces them with a �...
Is there a way to fix that?

Here's the code I use:
code:
var tmp = new LoadVars();
tmp.load("inhoud.inc");
tmp.onData = function(loaded) {
dA = loaded.split("
");
for (var i in dA) {
dA[i] = dA[i].substr(0, dA[i].length-1);
}
};

It loads the textfile, and puts every line in an array.
The code is not from myself so i won't take credit for it ...

When I trace the array, I get lines like:
Orchidee�, wich should be Orchideeën

Loading Special Characters From Text Files
Hi
How can I load a variable with a special character in from a text file?

In my text file I have:
word=après

It is always loaded incorrectly by flash.

thx
all help appreciated

Display Special Characters In Loaded Text Files: &, •, Etc...
i have had Zero luck at this. Im trying to load a series of bullet points followed by text into a text feild.

the feel like there should be an escape character so i can use &#blah for the bullet code. Is this so?

if not are there any ways around this issue? the & will make flash think there is another var in the text file. How do i get around this?

please help me get up, for IveFallen.

Usefull Link For Special Characters In Text Files
this link on macromedia's site will give you a full listing for URL encoded characters helped me heaps been looking for something like it for ages

http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...l_encoding.htm

Special Characters From External Txt
NVM all I had to do was save my txt file in UTF-8 and select all the extra Latin Characters.

Nick

Special Characters Within External HTML
I am trying to import text from a text file using loadVariables.

Whenever there is an ampersand symbol it won't read past it.

Please can someone help, I am going out of my tiny little mind.

Thanks.

Special Characters In External Txt File
Hi,

I have a movie with scrolling text from an external txt file. The external text file contains accented letters (à, ò, ù) and quotation marks ("), but they don't show correctly in the flash movie.

I have typed the text in Dreamweaver and copied the entire text (html code included) to a text editor, and then saved it as a txt file. The code for the letter è, e.g., should be è, but the Flash movie shows something else.

Can anybody help me?

Thanks a lot.

External Txt-file - Speciel Characters?
If u load u text from a textfile - how do u make special characters like æ, ø, å, bullets.... and linebreaks?
Is there anywhere to find a list of all those?

Thanks ;-)

Importing An External URL With Special Characters?
Hi,

I'm trying to import a URL from a text file and the import all works fine. But the URL has some characters that Flash doesn't seem to like.

The URL in the load is formatted like this (not my URL).

PHP Code:

&theUrl=http://www.somedomain.com/today'slist&today=Monday

So Flash seems to be balking at the apostrophe and the ampersand. How can I get Flash to recognize those characters on import?

Thanks,
Layne

International Characters & External Text
Ok, I have read everything possible on this topic and have set everything up properly yet when I publish my movie which is loading an external txt file containing characters with french accents the accents do not appear when viewed online, however they do appear when published (flash player 6) and viewed through flash player locally?

My text file is UTF-8, I have specified the "Basic Latin Glyphs" as well as the specific characters, I have used this code: "System.useCodepage = True;" yet it still refuses to work when I upload and view it online?!?!?!?

Without the "...useCodepage..." the characters just do not appear, but with it the letters which should read "é" for example, appear as "^"?!?!?!

anyone, anyone...

Special Characters From External Source
I have a dynamic text, loaded from an external txt file, in Italian language. That text contain "à", "ò", "è" etc., which are not displayed correctly in my swf.
I tried to escape those characters (à=%E0, ò=%F2, è=%E8), but there is no difference.
My dynamic text has the option "Embed Font Outlines for all characters" checked, and the txt file is saved in UTF-8 encoding.

Special Characters In External Txt File
Same ole story..I'm trying to load an external txt file but sometimes there are some special characters in it.

We have a CMS set up to where it spits out a text file to a directory on the server and Flash is reading that text file in. Yea simple system but it works until this little bug came up.

Now I'm hoping that I don't need to explain to my client that the only way they are going to be able to use the character % is by typing %25 in the text field. Because right now that is the only way it is working.

I didn't write the CMS but is this something that would need to be fixed on the back-end? Or is there something I can do with AS?

[F8] Loading Math Characters From An External File
I realize there's lots of info on this around the forum and online, but I've yet to find one that works for me.. Basically I have a game that has math questions pop up between levels. The questions are being loaded dynamically from a text file and I just can't seem to find a way to view the division and multiplication signs...

I've saved my text file as UTF-8 and added this script to the first frame of my movie:

if(!System.useCodePage)

System.useCodePage = true;

still coming up blank.. Oh I also tried using different coded variations with no luck. (eg %00F7 for the division symbol)

Anyone have any insights?

Cheers!
Ryan

External Font And Embedding Special Characters
hi all,

i am using that example (by Xeef) to call external fonts to my application:

http://www.actionscript.org/forums/a...3&d=1098921856

everything is ok, but i need to embed some character sets into my dynamic text field.

if i put a dummy text field, and embed the characters i want into it, it works fine when i call the related font. but this increases the file size. since i am calling a lot of fonts, it is unusable for me.

so, what do you suggest for embedding characters set for getting the best result? a kind of trick? i am so open mind

Greek Characters From An External File In FLASH5?
I've read a lot about using Greek characters in MX, but I'm still struggling with how to do it in Flash5 - is there a way?

Greek displays fine for me in static text but not if I set it to dynamic.

I want to import data from an external file to populate the dynamic fields.

Any suggestions welcome!

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?

Special Characters Passed From An External Source
Greets,

When using special chars (such as €, é, è...) in flash, I have no trouble whatsoever. In the currrent script, I am filling a textfield with data that comes from a php/mysql page. When those values are displayed in flash, no special chars are displayed, instead I get a blank "box" where the character is supposed to be.

I tried htmlencoding() them without success so far. How do I get this to work?

Thanks in advance

Problem To Load Special Characters From External Source
I loading texts like name of buttons from external txt file. But in Flash MX I have problem with all czech characters like šžýáí. They did`n load. When I publish that movie to flash player 5 it works fine.

Loading Special Characters From External Txt File Failes
Hi,

I try to load a text with french characters in it (é à ç è ù ...). I load it in html text with system font (verdana I think) but flash displays them as a small box:

example:
Fran��ais: La foule, les ambiances �lectriques

How can this be solved?

Text Encoding Special Characters - Dynamic External
Hey, I have solved this before, but I forget how. When I pull in text from an external doc and populate a dynamic text box text content with the variables, it doesn't recognize apostrophes, quotes, etc. I don't want to click on the "embed" button in the Flash UI and embed the characters that way in the font because that makes the swf way bigger than it has to be.

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?

thanks!

External Textfile - Use Codepage=true - Characters Missing
ok- solved it by myself - www.unicode.org - look up the hexcode in the chart you need - +Sign e.g. is %2B.

thanx again...

Joc.

***************

OK, I have to use the statement

Code:
System.useCodepage = true
for displaying special characters (german äüöß...)

The external files I use are ANSI-coded (an have to be so, because my client is supposed to edit and save them, so I cannot expect him to save them in UTF-8).

The special characters display well in my Flash Movie BUT the "+"-Character does not. Probably because it is a control character.

Does anybody know which code to use to get Flash to display a "+"-Character? (BTW: The + does not display for UTF-coded external text files either...)

Thanks!

Jochen

Loading External Txts With NON Standard ASCII Characters
Hello everybody. This is my first post here.
I've used a Kirupa tuto for loading externat txts in a dynamic text box and works...
but the problem is I'm spanish and we use accents and the break c: ç

So I changed the externat txts to html files in order to use accents, but...
as Flash uses the "wonderful" ampersand to change between texts blocks, everytime I write an accent or a ç , Flash thinks this is the end of the text and hides the next text.
So, there's is a way to use externat txts or html with non standard ASCII loaded in Flash?

Targeting External Files To Text Files In Flash
Gooday all

I am developing a flash site for a movie company and it needs to be 100% dynamic! and must be flash 5 compatible

To put things as simply as I can here goes.

I have a directors page - on this page I have two text fields.
The first text field pulls all the directors names from an external file called directors.html, In this external file I have html hyperlinks which link to each directors bio text (in another external text file), what I want to do is basically target the second text field in flash. i.e. when you are in flash and click one of the directors names his info must appear in the adjacent text field.

you follow?

THIS DOESNT LOOK LIKE A COW!

Loading External Text Files With Links To .swf Files
i am loading a external text file with html links. I would like to know if anyone out there know how to make those links load .swf files, that would work with the levels hierarchy of the original level0 file. I tried passing a variable that would be detected by a movie clip on EnterFrame but no success, maybe I had written something wrong. Loading just the swf file will replace the html page on the browser.

Multiple External Text .txt Files In Different Swf Files
I'm trying to have several external files (txt or html) attached to a several swf flash files, loading in different levels of one main movie, for easy updating.

Example is: loadVariablesNum("ext-track.txt", 0);
This I can do, partly working.

Say you click the button for "about" that loads that flash file (in a layer), it fails to load in the relevant external file (the movie loads just not the external text file).

When you open up the "about.swf" on its own, it loads up the external file no problem. It just fails to do it when I am loading it from the main swf movie file that then loads this in a layer.

I can get all the text files working by putting in all the loadVariable parts in the main movie but I need them put into their relevant swf movies.

Does that make sense?

How do you correct, something to do with layers or targetting? I'm sure it'll be easy for you guys, Actionscript ain't my thing.

Thanks.

FLASH - Flv Files & Importing External Files
Note: this is trying to be done all in Flash... please be patient as I have to explain it...

Here's the scenario... I am currently building a website for a coffee company, and as an introduction to their website, they want to play a short clip of 16 seconds, size 350x250 - fine... The real problem is that I have been asked to make it appear as if it was actual footage on TV - in effect, at super high quality with NO (and I mean, NO) Pixelation... very stringent, but they think I can somehow push the boundaries and work something out!! Also they wish for it to play as soon as the website begins (no chance of preloading!!) - without an option for the user to control the film (as in no play/stop/rew buttons, etc.)

In order to create this, I had to use Final Cut Pro - as this was the only program that passed the 'test' for what was asked... the client has a major issue with the 'fade' to black sections of the film - believing them to look as if they are shimmering (this also being the initial problem with building it directly in Flash). I passed this through all types of compression to achieve the smallest possible file (12MG) - and then from Quick Time Pro - I came up with an immaculate looking, but incredibly large flv file - using the export feature. Total... 82MB, yes MB...

Please note, I am fully aware of compression, but have to iterate this incredible request!!

Rather than attach it to the timeline in Flash, I placed the created FLV file in the same folder and requested on the first line of the timeline - through Actionscript - that it plays the FLV 'progressively'. To my understanding, this file should play whilst not having to load up before hand... (learnt of this from Macromedia website.)
I have seen this method used in a few tutorials, but admittedly the file sizes are approximately 5MB...

After uploading the file (took over an hour), I tested the film and it began to play extremely slow and choppy. After 16 seconds (the expected duration of the clip) the next scene in the timeline began !! The film had actually only progressed about 3 seconds into itself....

I don't think I am necessarily doing much wrong as it is the best solution that I could come up with in terms of keeping the final 'SWF' file to a minimum size so a user will not have to wait it to load up (got Flash files to 24MB - but still too long to load up!!!)

Can anyone think of an alternative method to playing an 82 MB file, or is this just plain ridiculous??

I am at a loss because I am still curious to see if this is actually feasible... if so then maybe you will help me push the boundaries of Internet viewing!!!

ALL comments/suggested will be highly appreciated and definitely considered

Okolom

[F8] External Text Files Wont Load Into External Swf File...
Hi,

I'm making a Flash website in Flash 8 (mac).

Structure: There is 1 main file that loads external SWF files depending on what is clicked on.

One of the external SWF files loads its text from external text files. This works fine when viewing the SWF applet on its own. But when viewing as a whole site, the text doesnt appear. Very annoying.

I made that particular SWF on my mums computer running Flash MX 2004. The flash file itself uses the Scrollbar component from MX.

Could someone tell me why the text doesnt load in this scenario? It runs fine on its own, just not as an external SWF.

I've attached the files in question. Its a 200kb ZIP download. Do tell me if you need to know more.

Thanks

Changing Foreign Language Characters To Normal Characters
Hi

What im doing is taking a word from an imput box and the searching an xml file for it.

I have all that working.
MY issue is the application is in french and i want to be able to strip the inputed word of special characters
like é.

The reason for this i because if i have to account for the case that the user uses the special character and not use the special character (just incase) then this will eventually inflate the size of the xml im searching because ill have to put in both.

EG
User 1 searches for Abbé
User 2 searches for Abbe

They both get a result

CURRENT SOLUTION
XML Contains entry for Abbé and Abbe

DESIRED SOLUTION
XML Contains entry for Abbe only
Actionscript strips the search word of special characters à to a and é to e etc etc
Searchs the XML with new stipped word!!!

Thanks

Special Characters Same CharCode As Normal Characters?
Hey everyone

I have a key listener where I trace the KeyboardEvent:

Code:
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, testIt);

private function testIt(e:KeyboardEvent):void
{
trace(e);
}
My problem is, that my danish character æøå traces exaclty the same event as the letters aoa... All my danish colleagues have no problems getting the right charCode, but mine just can't handle it...

What can be the problem here????

Loading External Html Files With External Css Please Help
Hi people,
I'm new to this forum and new to ActionScript. I have not worked on AS1 or AS2 before so I just got started on AS3.

I'm trying to learn ActionScript 3 and I started experimenting with ideas and workinf examples.

What I'm trying to achieve is a website where the content shown is from external HTML files and external CSS.

My code was working up until trying loading the CSS. The error that I'm getting is "Call to a possibly undefined method URLLoader"

here is my code:

ActionScript Code:
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.text.*;
import fl.transitions.*;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;

var bodyTextField:TextField = new TextField();
bodyTextField.x = 50;
bodyTextField.y = 300;
bodyTextField.width = 500;
bodyTextField.multiline = true;
bodyTextField.wordWrap = true;
bodyTextField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
bodyTextField.selectable = false;

var textBox_mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();

showContent("html_pages/home.html");

function showContent(paraString:String):void
{

var contentPage:String = paraString;

var myURLLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var myURLRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(contentPage);

var myCSSLoader:URLLoader = new URLloader();
var myCSSRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("html_pages/demo.css");

myCSSLoader.load(myCSSRequest);
myURLLoader.load(myURLRequest);

//myURLLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, dataOK);
myCSSLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, dataOK);

function dataOK(myevent:Event):void
{
var css:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet();
css.parseCSS(URLLoader(evt.target).data);
bodyTextField.styleSheet = css;

bodyTextField.htmlText = myURLLoader.data;

textBox_mc.addChild(bodyTextField);
stage.addChild(textBox_mc);

var myTransitionManager:TransitionManager = new TransitionManager(textBox_mc);
myTransitionManager.startTransition({type:Wipe, direction:Transition.IN, duration:0.5, easing:None.easeOut});
}
}

Can someone please have a look and tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.

Loading External Files Within External File
Is there a way to load an external file from within an already loaded external file?

Example:

I want to do a section devoted to blog entries. So, I was wanting to externally load the dated references in one textbox on the right side, and when the user clicks on one date, it loads the referenced text file into the larger box next to it.

Any ideas of how to accomplish this?

Thanks!

bbbco

Cannot Load "Thai" Special Characters From External File
Hello.

I have one flash menu that loads data from external XML file.
The menu can display special characters like Chinese or Japanese just fine if I embed the special characters in flash first but this doesn't work with "Thai" characters, anyone knows what else I need to do?
It shows boxes or an "a" instead of the Thai characters.

Maybe I need to change this encoding at beginning of XML file?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

Or in html page?

Any help is appreciated, I am stuck :(

External Files
Anyone know how to grab (specifying a file name through an ASP-defined variable) an external WAV file and play it through a Flash movie without launching an external media player?

External Files
can I open an external file with a button??using the users defaults..for example I am creating a CD with all my avi, mpg etc. And would like to open the files in my default or the users default veiwer like windows media player or real player..

External Files
can i use an external file to allow limited access to my swf
such as changing "key values" and sounds to play. please

External Files...
ok Now I`am now confused,

What’s the best way to preload multiple external .swf files in sections, showing file size / plus what’s left to download?
Here’s an example. Only loading/showing one process at a time
Loading Site Tables... 57kbs/20kbs to go
Loading Polls… 57kbs/20kbs to go
Loading Site News… 57kbs/20kbs to go
Loading Site Menu… 57kbs/20kbs to go
Loading Site Jukebox… 57kbs/20kbs to go

Anyways, this should move pretty fast depending on the size of the .swf files.

Using External Txt Files
Hi Everyone

I'm new to flash and this forum so not sure if this has been asked in the past. Basically i want to incorporate external txt files into a flash movie. What I am after is the ability to do 2 things with a button or series of buttons that will allow for quick and easy updates without having to go back the source.fla file every time.

1. Generate the text/title on the button from an external txt file

2. Action a link to a specified url that is also in the same or another txt file. rather then having it embedded.

The idea being the one week I may have a button that says for instance, apple and links to http://www.apple.com and the next week the button says hotmail and links to http://www.hotmail.com. All of which is achieved by way of editing text files and not even opening the source file.

Sorry for spelling it out but I just want to be clear, be gentle.

Cheers

Wass

External Files
ok well heres the deal. im making this design where im including external html files into flash for each content page. ive got everything working but...the images in the html code dont seem to be included in the flash movie. so either im doing something wrong, or you cant include external images through flash. the temporary thing im talking about is at http://fokused.com/portal.html - if anyone can help it would be much appreciated. however, if you cannot include the images from the html files, is it possible to instead of include html files in the scrolling area include flash files? then it might work. well, time for bed. hope this gets a response soon .

mike ... heh its a cow