Flash :: Dynamic Text Box Character Spacing

Character Spacing In Dynamic Text
Is there a way to use character spacing in dynamic text? You can use it with static text it's an option drop down on the properties dialog box, but I can't find a way to use it with dynamic text.

If there is for some very stupid reason you can't is there a way around it.

Thanks

Character Spacing For Dynamic Text
Hi,

is there a way to specify the character spacing for dynamic text ?
thx

Character Spacing For Dynamic Text
Hi,

is there a way to specify the character spacing for dynamic text ?
thx (and HELPPPP !!)

Character Spacing In Dynamic Text Fields
Hi All,
How can i give character spacing in dynamic text field using Actionscript?
I have tried:

x_txt.htmlText="My Text"

I Suppose, this is not working because span tag is not supported by Flash MX.

Can anyone provide me with a solution?

Thanks,
Aman.

Character Spacing In Dynamic Text Boxes
er, what the title says really

i need to fix the character spacing on some dynamic text, is there a way to do this???

Maybe there is a way to do it outside of flash???

thanks

cuse

Control Character Spacing In Dynamic Text Box?
I think my text looks better with a character spacing of .5 - problem is I have some dynamic text boxes and the option greys out when you change to a dynamic text box. Is it possible to control this with a little actionscript?? anyone??

Thanks!

Change Character Spacing In Dynamic Text Field
Any one have any idea how to change the character spacing in a dynamic text field...... the forced defual 0 looks awful on large font sizes....

thanks

Control Character Spacing In Dynamic Text Field
Hi,
I've been trying a lot of things to solve this and i'm running out of ideas. Here is my problem: I'm loading an xml file (encoded as utf8) in dynamic text field. I'm using a pixel font with the norwegian characters ø, å, æ. It all works fine appart from the letter å and Å. For å, there's a huge space after any letter coming after that. For Å, it's the opposite. Any following letter is stuck to it. It looks perfectly fine when it's in a static text field. So I thought that having the font in the library and use 'setTextFormat();' would solve the problem. After all, Flash embeds the font when it's in a static text field but not in the same way by the look of things.
Has anybody found a way around that? IS it possible to assign character spacing with CSS maybe.
Thanks for your help.

Fromat Character Spacing In Dynamic Text Field
I have set up a dynamic text box with in a flash movie, that a client can edit with a .txt file from anywhere. So, My question is, the character spacing option in the properites area for the text box in flash will not allow me to set it to a number other than 0. In fact, it becomes unselectable???? I need to set it to 2 or maybe 3, how can I do that?

Hope this makes sense

thanks for the help!!!
-Z

Character Spacing In A Dynamic Textbox
Hi guys, I'm creating a dynamic textbox with a scrollbar in it but I can't seem to use any option that is available in a static textbox in a dynamic textbox. One of it is the character spacing. Is there anyway to do it? Thanks in advance

Changing The Character Spacing When Loading Text From XML Into Flash
How can I change the spacing betweem characters when loading it from a XML file?

Thanks

Character Spacing
Dear readers,
Any body know how to make the 'Character spacing' in dynamic text.

Example:
ABCDE to A B C D E

Regards
Flash groups

How To Specify Character Horizontal Spacing With AS?
Hi.

I've been searching around, trying to find a way to give a textfield a horizontal spacing using actionscript ... but had no luck.

Anyone knows how to do it?

Thanks,

flashbot.

Character Spacing In Actionscript
Hi,

Is there a way to alter the character spacing (kerning) of dynamic text in actionscript?

I can find anything about it so it isn't looking good.

Thx

Character Spacing Not Staying
I have an Enter button that has spacing between the letters but When it displays it showing them all together,

Any Ideas

Nick

Dynamic Text Spacing
Hi

When I enter text into my html form and then pass the text to my dynamic text field in my flash program, all the text seems to be double spaced or has extra returns in them. Is there a setting that correct this?

Dynamic Text Spacing?
is there a way to space dynamic text?

through actionscript?

the letters of my dynamic text are to dense and i would like to change this.

regards,
.dnd

Can You Control Character Spacing With Actionscript?
Hello

Wondering if it's possible to control character spacing in an input text box with actionscript?

Here is an example.

I would like the character spacing in the price to be tighter.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Kind regards,
______________________

REGAN SHEPHERD

Mouse Trailer Character Spacing
Hi,

I'm fairly new to Flash. I completed the "Mouse Trailer" tutorial and another text animation tutorial on another site. I got both movies to work, but both experience the same display issue.

Whenever I create an actionscript movie that animates text by splitting a text string into an array of characters, the final display of text is not evenly spaced (horizontally) - the spacing between letters is not consistant. None of the actionscript I've seen accounts for spacing between the letters - only spacing between lines and line length.

Does anyone know how to ensure even spacing between the characters? And even if you don't know how to correct it, do you why the spacing would vary between letters.

Thanks!
Kelly

Character Spacing, Masking & Hyperlinks
Ok,

Working with Flash MX.

If I create a hyperlink out of static text, I lose character spacing. Why, and how to fix this? Also, if this text is being masked, after typing in the hyperlink address, the masking element shows on top of the text! Why? Fix? =(

Text Rendering Bugs W/dynamic/css Text - Overlaps, Spacing, Etc.
Hi There:

This is a problem I've been having for years but which came up again today. I've got a fairly complex quiz engine which builds question and answer screens from xml & stylesheets using embedded fonts. I've wrangled most of the basic issues with formatting - bold & italics, special characters, etc.

Unfortunately, I still have regular problems with Flash's rendering of the text - usually when using an inline style with italics. At small font sizes italic text will overlap the text that precedes it - and I know that it's a rendering bug, because if I zoom in to 200 or 400%, the letter spacing is correct. I end up adding non-breaking spaces to the file, which is bad form, but it works.

Today I have a problem with underline tags adding too much space between words - even when there are no spaces. Again, it displays correctly when zoomed in. Unfortunately, I can't fix this one by adding NBSPs. I've tried playing with the letterspacing with no success.

Does anybody have any insights or advice? I'm attaching an image that shows examples of what I'm talking about. I've experienced this problem for YEARS with dozens of different fonts, and I've tried every variation of kerning/letterspacing/font embedding etc. that I can think of.

Thanks in advance!
Patrick

Text Rendering Bugs W/dynamic/css Text - Overlaps, Spacing, Etc.
Hi There:

This is a problem I've been having for years but which came up again today. I've got a fairly complex quiz engine which builds question and answer screens from xml & stylesheets using embedded fonts. I've wrangled most of the basic issues with formatting - bold & italics, special characters, etc.

Unfortunately, I still have regular problems with Flash's rendering of the text - usually when using an inline style with italics. At small font sizes italic text will overlap the text that precedes it - and I know that it's a rendering bug, because if I zoom in to 200 or 400%, the letter spacing is correct. I end up adding non-breaking spaces to the file, which is bad form, but it works.

Today I have a problem with underline tags adding too much space between words - even when there are no spaces. Again, it displays correctly when zoomed in. Unfortunately, I can't fix this one by adding NBSPs. I've tried playing with the letterspacing with no success.

Does anybody have any insights or advice? Here's an image that shows examples of what I'm talking about. I've experienced this problem for YEARS with dozens of different fonts, and I've tried every variation of kerning/letterspacing/font embedding etc. that I can think of.

Thanks in advance!
Patrick

Set Dynamic Text Letter Spacing ?
Hello I am wondering if there is any way to be able to set the letter spacing for dynamic text like you can with static text? I know I could break each word up into an array and insert spaces in between each letter and feed it back into a string, or something like that, but that seems like a lot of trouble... is there any other way?

thanks in advance for any ideas!

Dynamic Text Line Spacing
im loading text into a multiline text area from .txt file

why in text file if i start a new line does it show up in flash as a huge gap? ()

how can i display text file "as is"????

Dynamic Text Line Spacing
Hello--

This is the code i use 2 upload my text file

Code:
loadVariablesNum("screen.txt", 0);

Inside the TXT file i wrote

Code:
screen=bla bla

so far so good

BUT!
When i write two sentences like:
Hello world,
How u doing?

In the SWF it shows like
Hello world,

How u doing?

I dont know y it makes an extra space?
How can i fix this?

Thanks allot,

Charachter Spacing Dynamic Text
Hi anyone know how to set the character spacing of dynamic text.

[CS3] Dynamic Text Line Spacing
I have a dynamic text tat loads a txt file.
it is multiline and HTML.

it loads the original file (like this):

this is a test message
this is a test message
this is a text message

like this:

this is a text message

this is a text message

this is a text message

the problem is.... to much line spacing, and different than the original.
How can I correct this ?

Thank you.

Flash Dynamic Text Spacing
Hi,

I have a website iin Aspx 2.0 that loads some data from an Access Database to Flash Dynamic Text boxes.
My problem is that in my server Flash in not "loading" the paragraph information, when there is more than one paragraph. I tried the same website in another server and it doubles every paragraph. I don't know why. Everything is exactly the same...
Here are pictures os the same text in the two different servers:

http://pwp.netcabo.pt/jn.brochado/server1.jpg
http://pwp.netcabo.pt/jn.brochado/server2.jpg

Any ideas why and how to solve it???
thanks..

Dynamic Text Letter Spacing?
i notice for flash 8. static text'S letter spacing can be controlled by actionscript BUT I have no luck doing the same with dynamic text.
take a look at my source file. and see if you got better luck with letter spacing with dynamic text.

raskol

Dynamic Text, Multiline, Spacing?
Hello all!

I am working on a project that loads an RSS feed into a dynamic text box. I have the feed loading just fine, but once it loads the spacing between the "wrapped" lines is HUGE compared to the spacing between topics.

Here is an example:
example HERE

Is there any setting in Flash 8 that I can use to correct this? Actionscript maybe?

This looks dumb, and it's driving me nuts.

Thanks,

Chris

Dynamic/Input Text Spacing
Is it possible to have character spacing in an input field and a dynamic textbox? If so, how do I do it?

the font i want needs to be spaced

Thanks

Letter Spacing On A Dynamic Text Box
I would like to apply letter spacing on a dynamic text box, but it seems once I export the swf, the letter spacing defaults back to 0. How can this be done?

Thanks a lot for any help!

Letter Spacing For Dynamic Text
Hi All,

Im having a problem with setting the letter spacing for a dynamic text box that exists on my timeline.

I have a string which is telling the dynamic text box what words to put into it.

What I want to do is set the letter spacing to 5. I have tried the following code from the help manual: -

var format1:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
format1.letterSpacing = 5;
myTxtBox.setTextFormat(format1);

What this does is sets the leading to 5 for any text I physically write into the box, and then preview. For any text that I dynamically load using a string and preview..... the leading is 0?

Any ideas? Help is thanked in advanced

Line Spacing W/ Dynamic Text
Hey guys, I have a question about line spacing and dynamic text. For my client site, www.haultrash.com ,a line break is double spaced. I didn't use HTML, and this is exactly what the Shop Haultrash text file looks like:

shop=HaulTrash.com now has an online store to buy all kinds of HaulTrash merchandise! At the store, you will find:

-T-Shirts
-Sweatshirts
-Collared Shirts
-Baby Accessories
-Boxers
-Hats
-Mugs
-Tote Bags
-And Much More!

If you go to the shop section on the site however, whenever there is a line break it is double spaced. To add to the problem, it works fine on my own server, as you can see if you go to

http://www.someoneleet.com/main.html

The .swf, .html files and .txt files are the exact same on both sites. What could be making the text act like this? Is there a double line break in Flash or something you can customize?

Maybe you guys know something I don't because I'm stump[ed, and as far as I know, the server should ot have anything to do with the text.

Thanks!
-brad-

Spacing Dynamic/input Text
Is it possible? I want to space out the characters so they arent so clumped in input and dynamic text

s e n d

instead of

send

thanks

Letter Spacing In Dynamic Text
I want to increase the letter spacing of dynamic text that I am using is it posible...mine doesn't allow me to do this.

Thanks in Advance.
Noir.

Spacing Of Dynamic Text Field.
Normally I would space the mc's on a whole number like for thumbnails, but since the widht is set to autosize, I cant do that. Help please.

ActionScript Code:
var showWhat = 0;var links:XML = new XML();links.ignoreWhite = true;links.onLoad = function(ok) { if (ok) { var entrys = this.firstChild.childNodes; for (var i = 0; i<entrys.length; i++) { var current = entrys[i]; var secret = current.childNodes[0].firstChild.toString(); if (secret == showWhat) { var titleBtn = menu_mc.attachMovie("title_txt", "button"+i, i); titleBtn.titleTxt.autoSize = true; titleBtn.titleTxt.text = current.childNodes[1].firstChild.toString(); // need help with this line titleBtn._x = //// titleBtn.entry = current.childNodes[2].firstChild.toString(); titleBtn.date = current.childNodes[3].firstChild.toString(); titleBtn.link = current.childNodes[4].firstChild.toString(); titleBtn.img = current.childNodes[5].firstChild.toString(); titleBtn.onRelease = function() { trace(this.entry); trace(this.date); trace(this.link); trace(this.img); }; } } }};links.load('http://www.xml.xml');

Spacing Of Dynamic Text Boxes
I am having trouble spacing dynamic text boxes with as.

I can define how many spaces(characters) for each text box, but I want it to say something along the lines of:

"mc._x = i._width + "some extra space";

here's where the problem is:

ActionScript Code:
spacing = 150;boot = function () { for (var i = 0; i<images.length; i++) { mc = container.attachMovie("thumbMC", "thumb"+i, i); trace(mc); //mc._x = i*(spacing); mc._x = thumb[i].width; mc.path = images[i].path; mc.link = images[i].link; mc.over.captionMC.caption.text = images[i].caption; }

I just don't know how to say mc._x = i._width + spacing; in flash. If anyone could help I'd really appreciate it. I'm working on this as I type this so hopefully I can figure it out myself, but I'm not the greatest as-er

thank you.

Spacing Dynamic Text Widths
Hi there,

I would like to determine the exact spacing of the textfields for my xml file so I get a result for my horizontal nave like: home/ features/ work/ etc.

Now I have something like this:

GenerateMenu = function (container, name, x, y, depth, node_xml) {
var curr_node;
var curr_item;
var curr_menu = _root.container;

for (var i = 0; i<node_xml.childNodes.length; i++) {
curr_item = curr_menu.attachMovie("beh", "item"+i+"_mc", i);
curr_item._x = x+i*spacing;
curr_item.i = i;
curr_item._y = y;
//beh(export name) is the movieclip attached to the mc container. In the mc with export name "beh' I have a textfield with the name 'name'.

This is what I tried to create the space with no result:
container.beh.name.autoSize = true;
spacing=container.beh.name._width +10;

Can someone help me out. Thx

Spacing Dynamic/input Text
Is it possible? I want to space out the characters so they arent so clumped in input and dynamic text

s e n d

instead of

send

thanks

Better Control Over Line Spacing With Dynamic Text
I'm putting together an administration system for my boss that will allow him to update his Flash-based site simply by editing content from an HTML textarea. The system works perfectly and is totally dummy proof. My only problem is with line spacing.

To my knowledge, when a dynamic text field is set to render HTML tags, it inserts a &ltP&gt tag for each line break. That means that for each new line entered in the HTML textarea there will be a new paragraph. This makes sense as when else would you put a line break? The problem however is the spacing or line height of the &ltP&gt effect. I've played with the formatting of my dynamic text field but reducing the line spacing to a comfortable paragraph spacing results in other lines of text overlapping each other.

I've tried replacing chr(13)'s (via PHP) in my HTML textarea with &ltBR&gt, escaping the HTML tag to avoid simply rendering it. The problem here is that MySQL takes this literally. So when my SWF retrieves this data, it sees it also as a literal (i.e. &ampltBR&ampgt instead of &ltBR&gt) and doesn't render proper &ltBR&gt tags.

Something tells me the HTML renderer is of fairly poor quality. Something else we should ask Macromedia to fix in future releases.

I'm at work and can't spend much time on this so I appologize for any clarifications that may be needed.

-ptolemy
[Edited by pateym on 07-09-2002 at 12:28 PM]

Dynamic Text From File, Scrolling And Spacing
Hi all.

I have a flash movie that has some buttons on the left side and a dynamic text box on the right. Each button loads a different text file into the dynamic text box, but whenever there is a new line in the text file, there is an extra line in the dynamic text box.
example:
"this is line one.
this is line two."

shows up as:
"this is line one.

this is line two."

Can anyone help me out?
I was also wondering how I could add a scroll bar to said dynamic text box.

Thanks.

::] Peter

Lost Paragraph Spacing Using Dynamic Text
Hello,

I'm having a problem with dynamic text.
Last year I´ve a flash 5 website with dynamic text and everithing worked fine.
The text appeared online as I wanted. Some paragraphs(Enter) and some to keep the txt line closer.

example:

&int1= • Lançamentos contabilísticos • Facturas de trabalhos classificadas • Documentos de despesa do caixa da unidade

&int2=• Lançamentos contabilísticos
• Facturas de trabalhos classificadas
• Documentos de despesa do caixa da unidade

Now, I had to update the website in MX(not 2004)and lost all the paragraph spacing, everything looks like I'm using next line spacing ( ) using the same *.txt that worked before.

Does anyone know how I can solve this problem

Thank you
Madre T

Dynamic Text Box Character Spacing

hey.Im loading external .txt files into dynamic text boxes in flashMX.Is there a way to alter the character spacing in either flash or the txt file though as it screws my design up greatly without it?thankscuse

hey.

Im loading external .txt files into dynamic text boxes in flashMX.

Is there a way to alter the character spacing in either flash or the txt file though as it screws my design up greatly without it?

thanks

cuse