Flash :: Dyanmic Text With Mask

Drag N Drop N Dyanmic Text
HI dere

im nt sure how to clear the endComment(dynamic text) once the user place the item back to the shelf.Cn u please hlp me chck my codes and see where did i go wrong. thank u veri much.

ps: my swf file juz drag the battery.

Code:
/********************************
Battery
********************************/
stop();
var dropBool = false;//1st var i created
var waterBool = false;//2nd var i created
battery5_mc._visible = false;
battery2_mc.useHandCursor = false;
battery2_mc.onPress = function() {
this.startDrag(false);
this.onMouseMove = function() {
updateAfterEvent();
};
};
// handle release event
battery2_mc.onRelease = battery2_mc.onReleaseOutside=function () {
stopDrag();
this.onMouseMove = undefined;
if (this.hitTest(_root.dropTarget_mc)) {
this.gotoAndStop(2);
this._x = 92;
this._y = 190;
_root.answer3 = "17.99";
_root.answer1 = "17.99";//mass
_root.waterBattery_mc.gotoAndStop(1);
_root.error_mc.gotoAndStop(1);
dropBool = true;
} else if (this.hitTest(_root.waterTarget_mc)) {
this.gotoAndStop(2);
this._visible = false;
this._x = 92;
this._y = 190;
_root.answer2 = "7";//vol
_root.answer3 = "0";
_root.water_mc._visible = false;
_root.waterBattery_mc.gotoAndPlay(2);
_root.error_mc.gotoAndStop(1);
waterBool = true;
} else {
this._x = 88.5;
this._y = 31;
_root.answer3 = "0";
_root.answer1 = "";
_root.answer2 = "";
_root.endComment = "";
_root.water_mc._visible = true;
_root.waterBattery_mc.gotoAndStop(1);
_root.error_mc.gotoAndStop(1);
}
if (dropBool && waterBool) {
_root.endComment = "2.57";
}else if(dropBool && waterBool != true){
_root.endComment = "";
}
trace(dropBool);
trace(waterBool);
};

Setting Style To Dyanmic Text
I'm editing a Flash site and running into some minor problems with text formatting. The original dedicated space for copy is now too small due to text additions. The arrived-at solution is to make the block scrollable, which I've done. The problem is that lines within the text are called to be bold, while others are not. I can set it that way as static text, but when I change it to dynamic, all the text changes to the opening format (in this case, the first line is bold, and the entire text then becomes bold). Any way I can preserve the different formatting as synamic text so the block can scroll? If it helps, I'm using MX.

Dyanmic Anti-alised Text
Alrite, im having some major problems with this new text field in flash 8, with the whole anti-aliasing stuff. More trouble than is worth in my opinion, but alas, we cant have everything our way. Anyway to the point.

Ive got some text, and im using a pixel font, (think its called PixGothic7), and ive set the anit aliasing to Readability, cause well, i want to be able to read it.. . Then im loading text into it, so ive put the font into the library, and embebeded the required glyphs, and it looks all good. Then i tried to right justify some text, and its majorly blurry. Whats goin on? its fine on left, center and full. But on right its looks shocking??

Any advice you can offer about all these new text features in Flash 8? and explain whats goin on.

Thanks

-Aussie Devil

Dyanmic Text Missing In Flash 8
If I publish with Flash 7 then it is okie... But it is missing in Flash 8

Dyanmic Text Line Spacing
My flash file is using dynamic text importing a text file. I have my line spacing set perfect locally but when I upload it descreases the spacing. When I upload I have to descrease the line spacing to match what it looks like locally.

Any ideas on what the cause?

The Key is more powerful than the Sword.

External Dyanmic Text & Custom Scrollbar
I have a custom scrollbar which works for Static Text, but not Dynamic Text. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advanced.

N

ActionScript Code:
stop();

fscommand("allowscale", "false");
bar.useHandCursor = dragger.useHandCursor=false;
space = 20;
friction = 0.9;
speed = 4;
y = dragger._y;
top = main._y;
bottom = main._y+mask_mc._height-main._height-space;
dragger.onPress = function() {
drag = true;
this.startDrag(false, this._x, this._parent.y, this._x, this._parent.y+this._parent.bar._height-this._height);
dragger.scrollEase();
};
dragger.onMouseUp = function() {
this.stopDrag();
drag = false;
};
bar.onPress = function() {
drag = true;
if (this._parent._ymouse>this._y+this._height-this._parent.dragger._height) {
this._parent.dragger._y = this._parent._ymouse;
this._parent.dragger._y = this._y+this._height-this._parent.dragger._height;
} else {
this._parent.dragger._y = this._parent._ymouse;
}
dragger.scrollEase();
};
bar.onMouseUp = function() {
drag = false;
};
moveDragger = function (d) {
if ((dragger._y>=y+bar._height-dragger._height && d == 1) || (dragger._y<=y && d == -1)) {
clearInterval(myInterval);
} else {
dragger._y += d;
dragger.scrollEase();
updateAfterEvent();
}
};
up_btn.onPress = function() {
myInterval = setInterval(moveDragger, 18, -1);
};
down_btn.onPress = function() {
myInterval = setInterval(moveDragger, 18, 1);
};
up_btn.onMouseUp = down_btn.onMouseUp=function () {
clearInterval(myInterval);
};
MovieClip.prototype.scrollEase = function() {
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (Math.abs(dy) == 0 && drag == false) {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
r = (this._y-y)/(bar._height-this._height);
dy = Math.round((((top-(top-bottom)*r)-main._y)/speed)*friction);
main._y += dy;
};
};

Loading A Text File Into A Dyanmic Textbox
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dynamic_scroller.htm

I followed that tutorial, it didn't work and I followed one on macromedias website. Both are giving me the same error. I'm using flash mx 2004 professional version 7.2

Quote:

**Warning** Scene=news, layer=actions, frame=1:Line 1: The identifier 'loadVars' will not resolve to built-in object 'LoadVars' at runtime.
loadVarsText = new loadVars();

Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1

It shopws me that and in the text box there all it says is 'undefined'

The code on the layer that contains the textbox:

Quote:

loadVarsText = new loadVars();
loadVarsText.load("test.txt");
scroller.text = loadVarsText.var1;

I've also tried w/o that last line of code. Also the sample file off the kirupa tutorial gives me the same error. What's going on?

Including Data From Mysql Into Flash Dyanmic Text Field?
Anyone know how I can go about doing this? Sorry, I'm such a newbie @ Flash!

http://www.bowarren.com/home.php is the page I'm working on. I want the dyanmic text field in the middle to grab data via PHP from a mysql database. I just don't have a clue where to begin.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thx,
jp

If...then With Dyanmic Variables
Hi all,

I am having trouble with if...then statements?

I have an slider that changes a gauge that contains the var temp.

I want to make changes to the fla depending upon the value of temp.

Can you evaluate if..then of a variable writen during (enterframe)?

Also, could you please provide some code hints (what methods) to use for the following.

I want to be able to move the flames up/down depending upon the temperature and start/stop the bubbles and water.moving.

Finally, when a user raises the temp, I will have a thermometer in the flash that should rise with the temp gauge only slower.

Thanks

dave

Dyanmic Object?
in this example

var anObject= {name:"Jim!!", age:30};

is there anyway to make the name or age labels dynamic?

basicly im trying to dynamicly create columns in the datagrid component and populate it with the right data. the columns are created from information provided from a database.

Dyanmic Loading
So I have a problem with content not loading and I'm trying to figure out why... I have a parent movie that checks a variable on the root level and depending on the return loads an external .swf file. But the .swf file is not loading, not always. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. the thing is that there is a long list of variables it checks before choosing which content to load. is there any chance that it is not getting the time to get through the list before the play head moves on to the next frame? I'm not sure how this works.

[CS3] Dyanmic Loader
Hi,

I'm trying to do a banner slideshow like the one shown here:

http://oxidev.com/

I know how to do the slideshow, but how do you code it to load each image as it approaches it in the loop, instead of loading all of them when the page first opens?

Thanks,
Lance

Dyanmic URL Replacement
Hello, i'm trying to replace part of the URL in a getURL function through an outside txt file. anyone know a good way of doing so?

an example of what i'm trying to do...

getURL("http://www.somedomain.com/<replace variable>/");

Non Dyanmic Slideshow..
i know its possible as sure i have simliar experience of it...

im looking at a simple slideshow, transistions powerpoint style (but a little nicer!)...

i dont want to run it from an xml file or a database i just want it to look in a specified folder and basically just take all the images from there and display them in a slideshow so if i want to add a new one in i just drop it in the folder.... its for my boss and hes a numpty you see...

if any could point me in the direction of a good start or example if not is kool i can code it i guess...

Dyanmic Variable Names
Hi guys,

I've been playing with this for some time now with no luck. What I want to do is create many copies of a movie clip (manually) each which will have a different instance name (var1, var2, var3 etc). This will match up to a variable passed from PHP eg: var1=0&var2=1&var3=1

I would like to get the following code to work but where it says var1 have that replaced dynamically by the instance name. This way all I would have to do is create my copies of the movie clip and change the instance names instead of having to go into each one and edit the code.

onClipEvent (load) {
if (var1 eq "0") {
gotoAndStop(1);
}else{
gotoAndStop(2);
}
}

If someone can shed some light it would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance
frost3r

Dyanmic Navigation Problem
Hi. I'm a new member and a newbie to actionscript. And I mean newbie.

But I am trying to achieve an effect where a vertical bar slides from right to left across a movie already loaded onto the stage, masking the movie as it goes. When it gets to the left of the stage I want to replace the movie with a new one before the bar slides back to the right side of the stage.

I can and have achieved this effect in a linear navigation method, where the user can only click the buttons in order and the navigation follows the timeline. But I want the user to be able to click on any button in any order and achieve the same effect. But I just don't know how.

I have posted this problem on the forum at Macromedia.com, but the only person who replied was a relative newbie themself, and so could only get me so far.
They suggested using levels and loading the different movies, such as the original move and the wipe movie onto different levels, such as level 0 and level 1. The problem is I don't know how to:
1) Load movies onto different levels (but I'm sure it will tell me in the Flash help file, so I can figure that out for myself)
2) Have a movie affect a different level (having the wipe effect on level 0 change the movie on level 0 when it reaches the left side of the screen)

I'm sorry if this is a really basic effect to be achieved, but I have only ever used very basic actionscript such as gotoandplay and stop. If this topic has already been brought up and answered I apologise, and if someone could point me to the right thread I would be very grateful. But I hope that you can help, as I feel that my previous work has always been limited by what I can achieve and create, and I would really like to develop my knowledge of what is an excellent program.

Many thanks

Dyanmic Color Fill
hey everyone, i am trying to create a character creator problem i come across is that I want the people to be able to say what colour skin they want etc etc now i already have the shape drawn in flash in the location _root.test.skin

how can i change the colour of the shape? so instead of it being pink it can be brown?

dont want to have to draw different shapes for each colour cause then the thing will be huge

many thanks for any help!

[F8] Center Dyanmic Images Xml
I have a xml image gallery with different sized images, and instead of the images coming in from the top left corner I wanted to make them centered in the movieclip they load into. To do this I am just going to add -x and -y based on half of the image height/width. I have everything working I think but for some reason I cant get the movie to find the demensions of the dynamically loaded jpgs. Does anyone have a tutorial for this?
I tried a setInterval function to keep checking as the image loads but that didnt work.

Thanks

Question Of Why Vs How, Dyanmic Variables
Why does
var _myVars:Object = new Object();
var _matchNum =Math.ceil(Math.random()*5);
_myVars["_headClicked"+_matchNum]=1;

work, while

var _headClicked1:int = 0
var _headClicked2:int = 0
var _headClicked3:int = 0
var _headClicked4:int = 0
var _headClicked5:int = 0
var _matchNum =Math.ceil(Math.random()*5);
["_headClicked"+_matchNum]=1;

doesn't work? I think that I am missing something very fundamental. Do the brackets [] referrence an array only? I have what I need as far as functionality goes, but I don't know why I had to do it the first way, and not the second.

Random Dyanmic Masking
I am trying to create a ripple effect. I have a movie that uses dynamic masking, but I would like to have it appear randomly, with more than 1 instance.

Basically there is an image, and the effect I am trying to create is a ripple, that appears randomly, and more than 1 time.

Anyone have an idea how I could use the dynamic masking and have it display randomly?

Dyanmic Transition Gallery
Hello, I understand the way how to load an external ".jpg/.swf" but I do not know how these guy do this little transition. For example, I click on an image, it fades in, that I know how to do, you can animate the image in an external .swf file but the thing i dont get is how they get the fadeout? like instead of it abrubtly dissapearing it fadesout and makes way for the next pic or selection. here is what i am talking about:

http://www.templatehelp.com/aff/prev...ite%2F&i=15716

I really want to know how they did it, they also use this flawless transition on Acura's site for example i pick car#1, it fades in to fade car#1, when i pick the next car (car#2) it fadesout car#1 and fades in car#2 and so, etc. I would really like to know how to accomplish that.

[CS4][AS2] Problem With Dyanmic Loading...
Hiya! ^^ Okay, I have a problem concerning some dynamic loading. I have a very simple movie that I made for a web site- It consists of only one frame, and loads text from different text files depending on which one of the 5 buttons is pushed. When I preview it with F12 in Flash, it works just fine. When I export the .swf and preview it in the Adobe Flash Player 10, everything is peachy-keen. However, when I import it into Dreamweaver and preview with F12, the movie will load just fine, except that nothing happens when any of the buttons are pushed. I have made sure that all the .txt files are in the same folder as the .fla and the .swf files.

What do you think could have gone wrong? Should I try switching to AS3?

Thank you in advance your help, I really appreciate it! ^^

Dyanmic Video ScrollPane
Im Very New to Action Scripts and even more with XML. I have a scrollpane with a dyanmic movieclip created to hold descriptions and thumbnail pic of movie to play and a button to play the url to the video.

I have gotten the thumbnail pic and description to load but i can't seem to get the play button to dynamicly attach the url from the xml file. can someone help me with this.

here is the code im using.
Code:

var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);
var nsVideo:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
video.stream.attachVideo(nsVideo);

var mcMain:MovieClip;
function init() {

scrollPane.contentPath = "scrollMovieClip";
mcMain = scrollPane.content;

}
init();

var ilist:XML = new XML();
ilist.ignoreWhite = true;

var videourl:Array = new Array();
var videothumb:Array = new Array();
var videocaption:Array = new Array();

ilist.onLoad = function():Void{
var video:Array = this.firstChild.childNodes;
for (i=0;i<video.length;i++){
var whoIsOn:Number = 1;
videourl.push(video[i].attributes.url);
videothumb.push(video[i].attributes.thumbs);
videocaption.push(video[i].attributes.desc);


mcMain.attachMovie("blackMovie", "black"+i, mcMain.getNextHighestDepth(), {_y:90*i+5, _x:5});
mcMain["black"+[i]].description.text = videocaption[i];
loadMovie (videothumb[i],mcMain["black"+[i]].thumb);

   mcMain["black"+[i]].playbttn.onRelease = function(){
   trace(this._parent);

};

scrollPane.invalidate();
}

}
ilist.load("images.xml");

scrollPane.setStyle("borderStyle", "none");

thanks.

Container / Dyanmic Content Problems
I have built a website which has dynamic content coming from a db.

I have built the sections of the site on seperate .swf's and eveything works perfectly.

However, I wish to pull the .swf's into a container in my main movie.... this also works well.

But, one of the areas (news.swf) has news headlines and when i click on the headlines the stories are displayed. When I bring news.swf into the container the festure of displaying news stories does not work?

Anyone hazard a guess?

I WANT Flash To Cache Dyanmic Images.
Hey guys, I've got a flash that is pulling dynamic images from a database in SQLserver2005 and I want to know if there is a way flash can cache these images. It gets the image by a link to the aps data bae like http://www.foo.com/fooAPI/GetfooImage.aspx?foo_ID=1 and if you opened this up in a browser it'd be an image.

The flash will cache images that were loaded from a directory no problems.

Dyanmic Variables With Flash Remoting
Hey all, well, i now need to pass my dynamic radio button information from my Flash mx 2004 page, to a cold fusion cfc.

I am using flash remoting.

I may have 5, 6, 7, etc. radio buttons that the user may or may not click on. I need to pass the data to a cfc, so i can insert the data into a database and an email.

How can I pass data elements that are dynamic?

example(non dynamic):
getConRooms("conres", date, end_time, start_time, rb_1, rb_2, etc. );

thanks

dan

Please Help Me Out With Dynamically Loaded Dyanmic Textbox
Hello,

I'm creating a timeline structured site where a movie clip on the stage called 'slider' is set to slide automatically according to how far left, or right the mouse position is from the center of the stage. This works. I even have it set it up so that using two variables, i can decide how much or even which portion of the movie clip (or the timeline) the user is allowed to slide around in.

I then have a movieclip called 'yearMarker' which is attached at runtime inside the 'slider' movie clip. This is done through a While loop and PHP script which retrieves from the database the field values for "year" (just a string denoting the particular year in question), and "yearXPosition" (which is how far along on the x axis the attached movie clip should be.

the string I retreive from php looks like this:

yearOf1=1976&yearPosition1=0&yearOf2=1977&yearPosi tion2=350&yearOf3=1978&yearPosition3=1350&yearOf4= 1979&yearPosition4=1700&yearOf5=1980&yearPosition5 =2050&...ect.
(I used the variable name 'yearOf' in place of year because flash already has a class property with that name.

I managed to attach the 'yearMarker' movie clip at the right x distance from the left border of the stage, and it works well.

My problem is whith a dynamic textbox within the 'yearMarker' movieclip. The intention is that when the movieclip is attached, the dynamic textbox within, 'yearMarkerText", is given the value of the Year in question, 'yearOf'.

Not only can I not get this part to work, It also seems that the textbox disapears altogether, though if I set the textbox to be selectable and then test the movie, the mouse cursor changes to select text where the textbox should be if it was visible.

The code, on the first frame on the root of the timeline, which attaches a movie clip based on the above values goes like this:

var yearMarkersVar = new LoadVars()
yearMarkersVar.load("http://localhost/script/yearmarker.php");
yearMarkersVar.onLoad = loadYearVariables;

function loadYearVariables(){
// For Loop that will create a "yearMarker" for each year in the list
for (i = 1; i < this.totalyears; i++) {

// Create simpler variable names to use later
yearOf = this["yearOf"+i];
yearPosition = this["yearPosition"+i];
yearMarker = "yearMarker"+i;

// attach movie clip
slider.attachMovie("yearmarker01", yearMarker, i, {_x:yearPosition, _y:273});

// THIS SHOULD PRINT THE TEXT!
slider.yearMarker.yearMarkerText.text = yearOf;
// TREID THIS TOO
level = ["_level"+i];
level.yearMarkerText.text = yearOf;

}

// set variable to be used by 'slider' as end limit
_global.mcWidthTotal = this.mcWidthTotal;
trace(_global.mcWidthTotal);
}

Flash bug? something Im completely missing? am i an ediot? does anyone know how to solve this? im desperate.

thanks
-ahmed

Dyanmic Field Won't Work When Frames Adavnce
hi everyone,
I'm going nuts on this, can't seem to find a solution.
I have this movieclip, which is called by a function (a rollOver action).
The movieclip contains an animated background, a dynamic textfield and an
empy mc where some images will be loaded via xml.
It all works perfectly on the 1st frame, but when I move the textfield into frame 10 (per say), it won't load the xml node anymore.
Did anyone of you encounter this same problem?
Help?
thanks...

Dyanmic Jpeg Slideshow Loading Delay Problems...
Have created a slideshow based on the code from the Slide Show Turorial located at:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...slideshow_xml/
Everything works well except that when loading relatively large jpgs over a slow connection, when moving to the next or previous slide, the current slide gets dumped before the new one is fully loaded.
Is there a simple way to modify this code to not load (thus replace) the new slide in the targetted clip until it is fully loaded?
I am trying to create a seemless slide show without the need for the user looking at blank loading screens between slides.
Maybe by loading it into a hidden clip, thus effectively caching it before making the switch in the visible clip?
Any suggestion would be appreciated.
thanks in advance-

Referring URL : http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...slideshow_xml/

Mask Layer Hides Labels, Button Text, And Selected Text For Combobox
does anyone know how to get flash to stop hiding text that resides on movie clips that have a mask layer over them? the masks appear to work fine but hide this text and i cannot figure out how to get it to stop.

thx

=========================================
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

I Cannot Understand, How To Put Mask Layer On A Text Layer To Do A Mask
it looks there is only one layer.
the code is here.
http://go3.163.com/qiukezhi/tutor/1tutor.fla
see the picture
http://888888882.tripod.com/onelayermask.jpg
does anyone know how to make it?
thanks.
[Edited by bluerabit on 02-10-2002 at 06:09 PM]

Text Slowing Down Animation/using Text Behind A Mask
hey,
first: you might want to check this link to get an idea what i'm asking.
http://www.jamolo.com/maoHuge.html

it seems like having text in my mc is slowing down the dynamic animation of certain elements.

i've got a mc called maoMask which has a mask with a picture mc and some text behind it.
on the main mc, maoMask ypos is dynamically reset and the mc's behind the mask in maoMask are reset so they appear to be still.

the problem: the text makes the dynamic repositioning of mc maoMask hella slow.
I take out the text and it runs fine. I've checked my algorithim to make sure it's not eating resources, but it looks fine.

If I switch the text to dynamic text and bring it out of the mask, it works fine. But dynamic text doesn't appear if I leave it behind the mask.

what can i do here to maintain the intended effect and have it run smoothly?

Dyanmic Text With Mask

How come I cannot mask dynamic text?Is there some trick I am missing.

How come I cannot mask dynamic text?

Is there some trick I am missing.