Flash :: Alignment And CreateTextField

Alignment And CreateTextField
(If this is a duplicate entry, my apologies. My browser crashed as I posted it the 1st time.)
I'm using a createTextField, and really it works great.
Except, if it's an input type, and I have the alignment set to anything but "left", then a person types inside it it still left justifys unless you "recreate" the mc using the text data after they typed it.
Here's my code:
code:
function bk_txt_text(comp) {
if (beenbkfont == "1") {
$bktxtfont = (_root.db_fontb.getSelectedItem().data);
} else {
$bktxtfont = "AntiqueOliT";
}
if (bktxt_place == "1") {
$bktxtx = $bktxtx;
$bktxty = $bktxty;
} else {
$bktxtx = "345";
$bktxty = "320";
}
if (_level0.btbeenalign != "1") {
_level0.back_txt_align = "center";
}
if (beenbktxttext == "1") {
$bk_txt_txt = _level0.bktxt;
} else {
$bk_txt_txt = "Your text here";
}
if (beentxtsizeb == "1") {
_level0.bts = _level0.btsx;
} else {
_level0.bts = 10;
}
//$bk_txt_txt = "Your text here";
_root.createTextField("bk_txt", 324, $bktxtx, $bktxty, 120, 70); // depth, x, y, width, height
txt_bk_myformat = new TextFormat();
txt_bk_myformat.size = _level0.bts;
txt_bk_myformat.color = 0x000000;
txt_bk_myformat.align = _level0.back_txt_align;
txt_bk_myformat.font = $bktxtfont;
txt_bk_myformat.bold = true;
txt_bk_myformat.bullet = false;
txt_bk_myformat.underline = false;
txt_bk_myformat.variable = "var_bk_txt";
bk_txt.embedFonts = true;
bk_txt.multiline = true;
bk_txt.wordWrap = true;
bk_txt.border = false;
bk_txt.type = "input";
bk_txt.text = $bk_txt_txt;
bk_txt.setTextFormat(txt_bk_myformat);
//
if (bktxtswitch == "1") {
setProperty("_root.bk_txt", _visible, "100");
} else {
setProperty("_root.bk_txt", _visible, "0");
}
//
bk_txt.onKillFocus = function() {
_level0.bktxt = bk_txt.text;
};
bk_txt.onSetFocus = function() {
_global.beenbktxttext = "1";
};

txt_bts_txt.text = _level0.bts;
//$btt = bk_txt.htmlText;
}

Yeah, I know it's kind of clumsy, but it's my 1st AS project.
And of course some of the variables are defined "off screen". Like level0.back_txt_align is defined using a radio button set with the options "left" "center" and "right".

Anyway my question is, is there a way when the centering is set to center or right, that the justify can BE that while it's clicked in and being typed in?

Thanks for any suggestions!!
Liam

Alignment And CreateTextField
I'm using a createTextField, and really it works great.
Except, if it's an input type, and I have the alignment set to anything but "left", then a person types inside it it still left justifys unless you "recreate" the mc using the text data after they typed it.
Here's my code:
code:
function bk_txt_text(comp) {
if (beenbkfont == "1") {
$bktxtfont = (_root.db_fontb.getSelectedItem().data);
} else {
$bktxtfont = "AntiqueOliT";
}
if (bktxt_place == "1") {
$bktxtx = $bktxtx;
$bktxty = $bktxty;
} else {
$bktxtx = "345";
$bktxty = "320";
}
if (_level0.btbeenalign != "1") {
_level0.back_txt_align = "center";
}
if (beenbktxttext == "1") {
$bk_txt_txt = _level0.bktxt;
} else {
$bk_txt_txt = "Your text here";
}
if (beentxtsizeb == "1") {
_level0.bts = _level0.btsx;
} else {
_level0.bts = 10;
}
//$bk_txt_txt = "Your text here";
_root.createTextField("bk_txt", 324, $bktxtx, $bktxty, 120, 70); // depth, x, y, width, height
txt_bk_myformat = new TextFormat();
txt_bk_myformat.size = _level0.bts;
txt_bk_myformat.color = 0x000000;
txt_bk_myformat.align = _level0.back_txt_align;
txt_bk_myformat.font = $bktxtfont;
txt_bk_myformat.bold = true;
txt_bk_myformat.bullet = false;
txt_bk_myformat.underline = false;
txt_bk_myformat.variable = "var_bk_txt";
bk_txt.embedFonts = true;
bk_txt.multiline = true;
bk_txt.wordWrap = true;
bk_txt.border = false;
bk_txt.type = "input";
bk_txt.text = $bk_txt_txt;
bk_txt.setTextFormat(txt_bk_myformat);
//
if (bktxtswitch == "1") {
setProperty("_root.bk_txt", _visible, "100");
} else {
setProperty("_root.bk_txt", _visible, "0");
}
//
bk_txt.onKillFocus = function() {
_level0.bktxt = bk_txt.text;
};
bk_txt.onSetFocus = function() {
_global.beenbktxttext = "1";
};

txt_bts_txt.text = _level0.bts;
//$btt = bk_txt.htmlText;
}

Yeah, I know it's kind of clumsy, but it's my 1st AS project.
And of course some of the variables are defined "off screen". Like level0.back_txt_align is defined using a radio button set with the options "left" "center" and "right".

Anyway my question is, is there a way when the centering is set to center or right, that the justify can BE that while it's clicked in and being typed in?

Thanks for any suggestions!!
Liam

CreateTextfield And For
Hi,
my problem is that only the last button is displayed on the screen.
count is 6!

for (i=1; i<=count; i++){
_root.createTextField("button"+i,1,30,30+(i*20),80 ,50);
_root["button"+i].text = "Button" +i;
trace(i);
}

any idea?

CreateTextField
Hi there,

1. I am going to use the action to createTextField in the MC of navMC
2. loop 5 times and postion the textField down 50pix

Can u pls help me to check the code below?

Cheers

PHP Code:

_root.createEmptyMovieClip("navMC", 1);
for (i=0; i<5; i++) {
    _root.navMC.createTextField("navText", i+1, 100, 100, 500, 100);
    with (_root.navMC.navText) {
        _y += 50;
        multiline = false;
        selectable = false;
        wordWrap = false;
        border = false;
        myformat = new TextFormat();
        myformat.color = 0xff0000;
        //myformat.font = "Verdana";
        myformat.bullet = false;
        myformat.underline = false;
        text = "this is line" + " " + i
        mytext.setTextFormat(myformat);
    }
}

CreateTextField In AS2
Does anyone know how to use createTextField within a method

I have tried, and searched but am unable to.

CreateTextField
Why is this not working. The xml file is loading ok. The problem is with the creatTextField(). It does create it because I can select it when it is published but the text is not showing up. Even if I try to place text directly like
t.htmlText ="testing text";

Code:
XML.prototype.ignoreWhite = true;
var my_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
my_fmt.font = "Univers 55";
function loadXML(url, target) {
main_xml = new XML();
main_xml.load(url);
var t = target.createTextField("_text", target.getNextHighestDepth(), 0, -100, 200, 300);
t.html = true;
t.autoSize = true;
t.multiline = true;
t.type = "dynamic";
t.wordWrap = true;
t.selectable=true;
main_xml.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
//t.styleSheet = myCSS;
t.htmlText =main_xml;
t.setTextFormat(my_fmt);
}
};
}

CreateTextField()
I am trying to create a textField at runtime and format it. I am using the following code:

Code:
_root.createTextField("imageDesc", 3, 0, 0, 300, 50);
imageDesc.font = "Trebuchet MS";
imageDesc.size = 14;
imageDesc.textColor = 0xFF0000;
imageDesc.multiline = true;
imageDesc.wordWrap = true;
It all works except it isn't taking the font size or the font type. Can anyone tell me why that is?

Thanks

Help With CreateTextField
I am trying to create a empty movieclip with actionscript then use createTextfield. This movieclip will then animate across the screen. Everything works, but I am trying to get the text to a bigger font and having no luck. Here is the code I am using

this.createEmptyMovieClip("myText_mc", 0);
myText_mc.createTextField("word_txt",0,20,100,100, 100);
myText_mc.word_txt.text = " Hi Britni";
myText_mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._x += 5;
};
If I set the width to a higher number the text stil does not get bigger.

CreateTextField
I am creating dynamically the following text filed (see script). I want flash to embed the font but it is not doing it. When I set the "embedFonts" command to TRUE the text doesn't come up when I rollover the buttons that send dynamically the text variable to the text field.

Right now it works but the font that comes up it is arial and it is too big and doen't brake toa third line, in other words: the user can't see the total label of some products.

What can I do to make flash embed the fonts I want?

Thanks a lot.

createTextField("paintingLabel_txt",10,53,380,160,44);
with(paintingLabel_txt){
background = false;
html = true;
multiline = false;
selectable = false;
type = "dynamic";
wordWrap = true;
restrict = null;
embedFonts = false;
}
var labelStyle:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
with(labelStyle){
font = "Univers LightUltraCondensed";
size = 15;
color = 0x989289;
}
paintingLabel_txt.setNewTextFormat(labelStyle);

[F8] Help With CreateTextField
I have no clue why this isn't working. This is really frustrating me, and there is nothing more really that I can explain, so I'll just post the code.

Code:
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("box_mc", _root.getNextHighestDepth());
box_mc.beginFill(0xFF0000);
box_mc.lineStyle(3, 0x000000, 100, true, "none", "none");
box_mc.moveTo(0, 0);
box_mc.lineTo(200, 0);
box_mc.lineStyle(2, 0x000000, 100, true, "none", "square");
box_mc.lineTo(200, 100);
box_mc.lineTo(0, 100);
box_mc.lineStyle(3, 0x000000, 100, true, "none", "none");
box_mc.lineTo(0, 0);
box_mc.endFill();
xx = 0;
yy = 0;
thewidth = 100;
theheight = 100;
box_mc.createTextField("mytext_box",
_root.getNextHighestDepth(), xx, yy, thewidth, theheight);
mytext_box.multiline = true;
mytext_box.selectable = false;
mytext_box.border = true;
mytext_box.wordWrap = true;
var fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
fmt.color = 0x000000;
mytext_box.text = "Work you!";
mytext_box.setTextFormat(fmt);

box_mc.onEnterFrame = function():Void {
this._x = _root._xmouse;
this._y = _root._ymouse;
};
When it runs, it creates the red box and it follows the mouse just like I want, but there is NO TEXT BOX! Grrrrrrrrr, help please! Thanks in advance.

[F8] More Fun With CreateTextField
I am trying to create 7 text boxes named ITEM that will run vertical 45 pixels apart. I have tried a bunch of stuff, but nothing seems to work. here was my final idea.

PHP Code:

for (var i = 0; i<7; i++){
        var myItem = ['ITEM'+i+'_txt'];
        this.createTextField(myItem, i, 205, (215 + (i*45)), 165, 30);
        myItem.autoSize   = 'left';
        myItem.wordWrap   = true;
        myItem.selectable = false;
        myItem.embedFonts = bIsLatin;
        myItem.html       = true;
        myItem.htmlText   = rootNode.childNodes[1].childNodes[i].attributes.ITEM;
        myItem.setTextFormat(selectionText);
    }

anybody have any thoughts on this, or seee what I am doing wrong.

IMS

[F8] CreateTextField
I have been creating text fields using

createTextField

I notice that it doesn't go "Blue" indicating I think that its an allowed phrase (if that's the correct word...). The help files say use this.createTextField or put it within a movie clip?

But it seems to work fine without a movie clip to contain it, and without the "this"

So, what should I do? Do I always have to put the text within a mc (I need no interactivity at this point, just text that will be of varying length)

Apprecaite any comments

Edward

CreateTextField Help
Hi,

I am trying to create a dynamic text field that will control the number of lives a player will have in a simple game I am attempting to make.

I want the text field to be create dynamically. Could anyone point out where I am going wrong with the code below (actionscript 2). Nothing appears on screen.

Code:
this.createTextField("lives",9,10,10,100,50);
lives=6;
lives.txt = "lives" + lives;
lives.border = true;

CreateTextField Help
Hey All, does anyone have a snippit of code that will allow me to create a multiline textField (250x100) that I can:

1. set the text
2. render at HTML
3. set text color
4. embed linked font (verdana)
5. make scrollable - this one is pretty easy but I figure I would thorw it in for good measure.

Thanks Much, I have been fighting with the Flash text Beast for years now. Hopefuly this will put an end to that fight. Thanks, Dvl

CreateTextField
Hello,

I am creating a title using createTextField. Then I want to align some stuff to the bottom of the title, so I use:

var txtField:TextField = this.createTextField("txtField", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 0, 0, 200, 50);
txtField.text = 'My Title';

// this to the y
var yPos:Number = txtField.textHeight;

When I use this code and place my next mc at this Y position, it displays over the bottom of the text. It seems to align to the bottom of a 'x' but over right the dangly bit of a 'q' or 'g'

Does the createTextField have padding in it? Or is there a way to measure the pixel position of the bottom of the text?

Many thanks,

monk.e.boy

CreateTextField
I am working on project as under:

on first step ( screen) there are 2 text fields
user inserts text in a field and on the second text field same text appear as he types.

he clicks on a button to go to step 2

On the second step he has the written text from previous screen and buttons to change font, colors and position of the text box.

Thats it.

Can anybody help me how to do this or provide link.
I would appreciate your help

Thanks

CreateTextField Pb
Why isn't this working? I trace "myNews", it loads ok but the field myfield is undefined and i don't understand why.. can anyone help me?

ActionScript Code:
onClipEvent (load) { loadText = new LoadVars(); loadText.load("TEXT.txt"); loadText.onLoad = function() { _root.MCtexte.createTextField("myfield", 500, 15, 8, 387, 460); //trace(_root.MCtexte.myfield); _root.MCtexte.myfield.html = true; _root.MCtexte.myfield.htmlText = this.myNews; _root.MCtexte.myfield.condenseWhite = true; _root.MCtexte.myfield.multiline = true; _root.MCtexte.myfield.wordWrap = true; //trace(this.myNews) };}

CreateTextField
I'm using createTextField to make some tooltips. The AS dictionary says:

Quote:

A text field created with createTextField receives the following default TextFormat object:
font = "Times New Roman"

How or where can I change this font?

CreateTextField()
hi.

i'm looking for the most efficient way to program this:

Code:
for (var i:Number=0; i <= 7; i++){
// create 7 text fields

// place them in 7 equal columns across the stage
i thought i might need these variables to do it:

Code:
var stageWidth:Number = _width;
var numCols:Number = 7;
var indivColWidth = stageWidth/7;
but i am unsure how to go about writing this best.

any suggestions?

thanks. fumeng.

CreateTextField
I tried everything, it works perfectly without the loop but when I try to put it in a loop it displays nothing.
I figured out it has something to do with the naming of mytext, It seems it needs to be quoted I colored red where I think the fault is.

Code:
xwaarde = 20;
for(i=0;i<3;i++){
mytext = "mytext"+i;
_root.createTextField(mytext, i, xwaarde, 100, 50, 100);
mytext.multiline = true;
mytext.wordWrap = true;
mytext.border = true;
mytext.text = "this is my first test field object text";
xwaarde = xwaarde+80;
}
the following works perfectly :

Code:
xwaarde = 20;
_root.createTextField("mytext", 0, xwaarde, 100, 50, 100);
mytext.multiline = true;
mytext.wordWrap = true;
mytext.border = true;
mytext.text = "this is my first test field object text";
thanks

Help With CreateTextField
Trying to learn actionscript and I do not understand why I can not make the text width and height bigger but I can make it smaller. Here is the code I am using

this.createEmptyMovieClip("myText_mc", 0);
myText_mc.createTextField("word_txt",0,20,100,100, 100);
myText_mc.word_txt.text = " Hi Britni";
myText_mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._x += 5;
};

Help On Mc.createTextField
Quote:

Hi,
I'm trying to create multiple textfields, to load images onto them via html+loadvariables.

Code:
//frame 1
var i:Number = 1;

//frame 2-3-
if(i <= 10){
//instanceName, depth, x, y, width, height
this.createTextField("img_load"+i,+1,0,0,60,60)
// How do I change the other properties (aside from width/height, x & y) on the
// newly created text field? (the var value most importantly)
// doing img_load+i.class wont work, since all the text fields generated
// dynamically
i++;
}
Thanks in advance

edit- found http://www.actionscript.org/forums/s...d.php3?t=73115
for the solution.

Please delete this thread. Thanks

I Need Some Help With MC.createTextField
I'm working with a flash program that dynamically creates a user-specified amount of text fields in an MC using the createTextField function. However, it seems only one of the text fields will show up.

I've done some testing, and I found that when you create multiple text fields in an MC using this method, only the most recent one shows up. Is there any way to avoid this?

CreateTextField
Have a question, is there a way to change the variable name of a dynamic text box that gets created via a createTextField?? I tried this:

text_box.variable = "box2";

but it doesn't work because it continues to pull in the original variable from the loadVariables("info.txt", "box") that I have in frame 1

I basically want it to change variables at different frames so it can cycle through

Sample Text file:

box=Here you are at the box&box2=Yes at box 2&box3=Final box&done=1

thanks for all your help!!!

CreateTextField()
is there any reason anyone can see why this text field I'm creating isn't displaying any text.....it will show the cursor change to a hand indicating that the <a> tag is working, however, the text physically isn't there...

can anyone help me?

_root.main.createTextField("newText", 10, 672, 23, 100, 15);
_root.main.newText.multiline = true;
_root.main.newText.wordWrap = true;
_root.main.newText.autoSize = true;
_root.main.newText.border = false;
_root.main.newText.font = "Arial";
_root.main.newText.size = 8;
_root.main.newText.textColor = 0x333333;
_root.main.newText.bold = false;
_root.main.newText.align = "left";
_root.main.newText.leftMargin = 0;
_root.main.newText.rightMargin = 0;
_root.main.newText.indent = 0;
_root.main.newText.leading = 0;
_root.main.newText.html = true;
_root.main.newText.htmlText = "<a href="asfunction:TestFunction,movie01">Testing</a>";

CSS/createTextField
Hey,

Has anyone encountered problems with dynamically created textfields and style sheets?

I'm building a textfield as follows:

ActionScript Code:
this.createTextField("dateField", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 0, 0, 160, 20);
this.dateField.wordWrap = true;
this.dateField.multiline = true;
this.dateField.autoSize = "left";
this.dateField.selectable = false;
this.dateField.condenseWhite = true;
this.dateField.html = true;
this.dateField.styleSheet = dateCSS;
this.dateField._y = this.stackHeight;
this.dateField.htmlText = dateVar;

dateCSS is properly loading, and has a class called dateTxt:

ActionScript Code:
.dateTxt{
color: #666666;
font-style : italic;
font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
}

And the htmlText for the dateField reads, "<span class="dateTxt">2/24/2005</span>"

So here's the issue-- I can control everything but the italics. Those simply get ignored.

Is this an embedded font issue? The documentation I've found on embedding fonts is spotty at best. (And, if so, how do I embed the font and link it to the dynamic textField and still invoke the classes in the CSS?)

Any advice/solutions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

CreateTextField
Hi guys,

I need to create several TextFields one under each other.

The fields need to be of a fixed width (250px), but depending on the content they will need varying heights - any help would be appretiated I can only seem to manually set the height!

Also on how to position the following field would be cool - thanks!

CreateTextField();
Hi,

Problem with myTextField.multiline = 1;

Just create a new text field via createTextField();

The multiline property did not work at all.

Please help

Thanks

exemple:

// Create a new text field
this.createTextField("myTextField", 1, 0, 0, 0, 0);
// Property
myTextField.type = "dynamic";
myTextField.autoSize = "left";
myTextField.multiline = 1;
// Create text format
myTextFormat = new TextFormat();
myTextFormat.embedFonts = 1;
myTextFormat.size = 8;
myTextFormat.color = 0x000000;
myTextFormat.font = "ceriph 07_55";
myTextFormat.align = "left";
// Set text format
myTextField.setNewTextFormat(myTextFormat);
//
stop();

CreateTextField? I Want More
Hi,

i'm see the method createTextField, but I wanna to create radio, checksan combos in a dynamic form, with actionscript. Have one chance? I thought in create a movieClip for each one and attach in my Scene?

Thanks

Alignment
How do I align objects? What I mean is, I have 4 separate text items and would like to align them (left) without doing it manually?

Thanks.

Swf Alignment
Is there anyway to get an SWF to fit exactly (no margins) into an html page? The only way I have been able to do this is to place the SWF into a layer. Otherwise I can get it to fit with a approx. 1/8 inch margin. Should I be happy with this? I really want an exact fit.

Thanks

Alignment Help
OK let's say my movie is in 500 by 500 pixels and let's say I have a text box 200 by 200 pixels. When I go to align the text I have in the text box that is 200 by 200 pixels how can I use the alignment buttons without it a aligning 500 by 500 and just the 200 by 200?

Alignment
i've got an html page which holds my swf file. i've managed to get the swf to be centred from left to right, but what i want to do is get it centred from top to bottom too. i just want the swf to sit in the absolute centre of the html page i.e. halfway between the left and right, and halfway between the top and the bottom. can anyone give me any clues what i need to do with the html? i've tried a few things.....

Alignment Off
I'm placing a graphic on the stage and when I test the movie it is off by one pixel down and to the left. I manually reset the graphic and it's misaligned on the stage, but then it looks correct in the tested movie.

I created the background and the graphic in the same document, so they are on the same size stage.

What is going on?

.swf Alignment
so iv completed my flash website and have the .swf file ready to become live on the web, but what do i do to have the website centred on the webpage everytime the website is visited.

an example is this website http://www.thechapel.co.uk/

many thanks

Kyle

XML Btn Alignment
Having some issues here with an xml button alignment

ActionScript Code:
private function _position():void {

//trace("reposition");
_bgBottom.width = stage.stageWidth;
_bgBottom.x = Math.ceil(stage.stageWidth/2);
_bgBottom.y = Math.ceil(stage.stageHeight - _bgBottom.height);

_menuContainer.x = Math.ceil(stage.stageHeight/2);
_menuContainer.y = Math.ceil(stage.align.LEFT);
//schedule for change to bg_mc and no resize
_contentMC.x = Math.ceil((stage.stageWidth/2)- (_contentMC.width/2 ));
_contentMC.y = Math.ceil((stage.stageHeight/2) - (_contentMC.height/2));

}

these were set to align obviously bottom center, I wanted them left center any ideas?

Alignment
My flash MX N E V E R put my swf in HTML on center, always in left. Even I set Flash alignment (horizontal and vertical) -CENTER and HTML alignment default. Where is my fault?

Alignment
i just finished making my flash site and aligned it in the center of my html page, but i noticed that the size doesn't adjust when i change the size of my web browser. can someone tell me what i have to add to my source for it to be automatically adjusted? here is a example how it should look like.

http://www.elementskateboards.com/

Xml Alignment
Look how this xml puuls data and aligns itself when the text is written.

How is this done, can any one expline?
http://amaztype.tha.jp/

Thanks in advanced..//

Alignment
When I use Stage.align = "T" or Stage.align = "TR", it moves the movie clip around on the preview swf but when I publish it and view it through html and my browser, it is in the same place. How come?

Alignment
How come when I use the align design panel the item I am aligning never aligns? It just doesn't move no matter what buttom I push? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

CreateTextfield With Loop
my problem is that my script is only makeing 12 new textfields: massage1,massage2 etc. it seems to overwrite:name and email.
Please take a look!

on (press) {

for (i=1; i<=12; i++) {

name = "name"+i;
email="email"+i
message="massage"+i

_root.createTextField(name, i, 125, 0,200,20);
_root.createTextField(email, i, 125, 20, 200,20);
_root.createTextField(message, i, 125, 40, 200, 20)

_root[name].type = "dynamic";
_root[email].type = "dynamic";
_root[message].type = "dynamic";

_root[name].border = true;
_root[email].border = true;
_root[message].border = true;

_root[name].text = eval("name" add i);
_root[email].text = eval("email" add i);
_root[message].text = eval("mess" add i);

_root[name]._y = 0+i*40
_root[email]._y = 20+i*40
_root[message]._y = 40+i*40

}
}