Flash :: Limit Number Of Characters In Input Field Any Ideas?

Count The Number Of Characters In An Input Field For A Return In Dynamic Textbox
hi again everyone. this should be simple actionScript, but i cant find others with similar question.

i have two input fields. variable names are "name1" and "name2".
but when the input is returned in a dynamic text box, if the users names are too long (say "raskolnakov" and "penelope-sue"), there is no auto break in the final dynamic textbox ("both_names") and it is clipped by the frame of the movie.

so i think what i want to do is somehow count the characters in the input fields like

if the sum of the characters is more than 50,
then _root.both_names = name1 + " and " + "
" + name2;

that would return in two lines:
Raskolnakov and
Penelope-Sue

else if the sum of the characters is less than 50,
then _root.both_names = name1 + " and " name2;

that would return in one line:
Sam and Becky

thanks.

Limit Text Box To Certain Number Of Specific Characters?
hi

i need to limit an action to run only if a text box has less than 5 commas in it (it can have ohter characters though). can that be done? i'm not sure how to write the condition for it, can anyone help? thanks! something likethis maybe:

if (text <= ",,,,,") {
play();
}

Limit The Number Of Input Text
I am wonder if there is any method to limit the number of input letter for Input Text Field.

Thanks for reading.

Limit Number Of Lines In An Input Box
This might go in actionscript, but its a question I have about input text boxes. I need to limit the text to 2 lines, not characters.

Thanks in advance
Eric

PS I have looked a little, and used my very tiny bit of actionscript knowlege but I have no idea where to even start.

Limit Character Number In Text Field
Hello everyone...this might seem simple but how does one limit the number of characters shown in a dynamic text field?.....thanks.

Input Text Limit Number Of Line
hello,

How to limit the number of line of an input text ?

Thanks !

[F8] Limit An Input Text Field To A Certain Numerical Value?
Hello All,

I have an input text field into which I would like the user to be able to type any number they would like... as long as it's under, say, 800.

I know I can use myTextField.restrict = "0-9" to allow only numerals, and I can limit the amount of characters to 3 with myTextField.maxChars = 3

I'm looking for suggestions on the best way to keep the user from inputing 801 or 999, etc.

Thanks!

Limit Text In Input Field - Solution
After search for a solution to limiting the text input into an input field to a given size I ended up with this which I think is a reliable (mx) method.

function inputOnChange(){
// this line sets the height off of the height of the textField and compensates for any vertical transform
maxHeight=input_txt._height/(input_txt._yscale/100);
if(input_txt.textHeight<=maxHeight){
//nothing
}else{
input_txt.text=inputOld;
}
inputOld=input_txt.text;
}

input_txt.onChanged=inputOnChange;

I supect there could be some problems in a browser as it seems to draw text bigger than if run from the authoring tool. However this doesn't seem to have caused a problem in my (limited) tests.

I found you couldn't use textFormat.getTextExtent as it's like the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy. I.E. not very accurate. Set the onChanged handler to trace textField.textwidth and the equivelent textFormat.getTextExtent(input_txt.text) and you'll see what i mean.

So can anybody break this or is it worth submitting as a library script?

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How To Restrict Characters In Input Text Field
Hi,

I have an Input Text field and I want it in such a way that user should not enter any character(any thing including all possible characters) in to that text field.

For that I use, flash's rectrict feature. The snippet of the code is:

Code:
myText.restrict = "";
whereas myText is Var name of the input text field.

In flash's help they have written that "If the value of the restrict property is an empty string, you cannot enter any character".

But when I publish the file, I discovered that I am able to enter anything inside text field. Am I wrong somewhere?

Any expert help in this regard?

Thanks,
Guy Logical

[F8] Isolating Certain Characters In A User Input Field
I need to create a serial number decoder and was wondering if someone can give me a hand. I am not sure what script I should use as I am still new to Action Scripting.

For example if the user types in XT3406, I know that the first two digits represent the manufacturing plant. The second two digest represent he week so in this case it’s the 34th week. The last two digits represent the year in this case its 2006.

So there are two functions here that I have not dome previously which is isolating certain parts of a string and then using those part and referencing a list. Can anyone out there point me in the right direction? I am not sure what scripting I should use. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Special Characters, Input Field And UPPERCASE
Hi everyone!

I have an input_txt that is supposed to be all in uppercase. After embedding only uppercase letters and the special characters needed (Á, É...) I realized that users still would need to press shift+´+e to get É (in wich case you might aswell just ask the user to press caps lock instead ).

Now is there a way of making the input_txt show only uppercase on the fly, that works better with these chars? Like listening for ´+e and replace it with É or something...

Anyones previouses experiences are greatly appreciated.

Input Text Field - Remove Unwanted Characters
I'm building a form with some input fields. I need to write a function to ensure that the user only puts numbers in the fields and not odd characters, letters or spaces.
Is there a good tutorial on stripping out unwanted content from input fields?

My form performs a math calculation, so any unwanted characters will screw it up.

Thanks!

Input Text Field + Number
How do I specify in the script that the input text field needs to be Number and not alphabet. Say zip code should contain only 5 digits number.

Input Field & Font Issue - Some Special Characters Displaying Different Glyphs
Hi all.

I'm redesigning my website now. I have a contact form that works the way it should, except I have a strange problem with non-standard-latin characters like ı, İ, ş, Ş and ğ (specific characters Turkish uses other than the shared ones like ç, Ç, ö and Ö).

I have a container movie that shares fonts with a fonts-only movie called "fonts.fla". All the fonts are appropriately exported & imported so they show up the way they are supposed to. However, when I input, say "ı" it displays a strange character, "¦" but when I copy the right character from another application and paste it, it shows the right glyph. Same happens for other characters listed above ("ş" becomes "§", "ğ" becomes "©"). It is like, there's a problem with the glyph-mapping of the keyboard (but there is not, with any application or website but this).

I thought maybe setting the System.useCodePage to true or something might fix it but in fact it didn't. I have no idea what is going on with the file.

What I have tried so far...
- embedding these special characters in the text fields
- using a system font (that has these glyphs) without embedding
- using (and embedding via symbol) another font that I know has these characters
but the same result.

Does anybody have a slightest idea what might be causing this, or what the solution might be?

Thanks in advance.

Getting The Input Text Field As A Number And Not A String
Hi there, i am having problems when using something that the user has inputted through an input text field in a variable with a :Number type. i get the error "1067: Implicit coercion of a value of type String to an unrelated type Number." when i try and test the movie, and my actionscript knowledge is not good enough to think a way around this problem. any help you can give would greatly help. i will post some of the action script below.

Thanks for your help. :-)

the radiusX_txt, radiusY_txt and speed_txt are the instance names of the three input text boxes.

ActionScript Code:
var centreX:Number = stage.stageWidth/2;
var centreY:Number = stage.stageHeight/2;
var radiusX:Number = radiusX_txt.text;
var radiusY:Number = radiusY_txt.text;
var angle:Number = 0;
var speed:Number = speed_txt.text;
radiusX_txt.setTextFormat(

var drawMC:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
addChild(drawMC);
drawMC.graphics.lineStyle(10, 0xFF0000);
var startX:Number = Math.cos(angle) * radiusX + centreX;
var startY:Number = Math.sin(angle) * radiusY + centreY;
drawMC.graphics.moveTo(startX, startY);

button_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, addEvent);
button_mc.buttonMode = true;
function addEvent(e:MouseEvent):void{
trace(radiusX_txt.text)
trace(radiusY_txt.text)
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, drawCircle);
}
function drawCircle(e:Event):void {

}

thankyou again for any advice you can give

HELP Can INPUT BOX Number Value Change A Dynamic Text Field?
Yeah, I am trying to get my input field to change the value of a dynamic text box, which is accessing a variable from a .txt file.

The input field is called "Quantity1", "Quantity2", etc...

The Dynamic text fields load variables called "Price1", "Price2", etc...

Both go up to 10.

If I input a value, let's say 10, into "quantity4", then "price4" should change accordingly.

HOW CAN I DO THIS?

Number Of Lines Used In Dynamic Text Frield/input Field
Hello,
I have a large multiline input field that I would like to know how many lines of that space are being used in real time. Can I do this?

I know of .maxscroll, but since .maxscroll will not be changing, how would I do this?

Thanks much

Limit Characters
Hey,
Got a little problem here that I'm having some problem with...
I have a XML searcher thingy made and for the results in it I want to only display, lets say 50 characters to either side of the word that is searched.

I am reading from a XML file and I am using indexOf to ge the current location of the word.

Any idea's or links to tuts?

Form Field Validation, Specially Email Field. Any Ideas?
Hi. I have a simple flash form designed for my website i have all things done but i am not getting the idea how to validate the "Email" field like you validate it in JavaScript for an "@" and a "." to be present in the finally submitted form. I need to do it in ActionScript as the other form validation is done in it as well. Please let me know if you can help. Thanks

TextField - Number Of Lines, Number Of Characters
Hello,

I'm trying to get some insight on the textField object in flash.

I know how to get the textfield length and number of characters. But I need to know more.

Is there a way to get the number of characters on a line in a multiline textfield?

Thank you in advance.

GetURL Limit Of 127 Characters -SOS
Help, I am racking my brain...Im reading a url from a text file into my flash piece...the url is going to be huge!!! once it is in flash the url variable is called up by a button in a getURL ( varName, "_blank", "POST"); but the getURL function is limited to 127 characters...so when I cut my url in half it works but this is always going to be a huge string...any thoughts I tried concat() but didn't work well....HEEEELLLLPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!

Scrolling Movie Clip That Use's Get Property Need To Set Max Scroll Limit Any Ideas?
i have a movie clip which use's the set, get property commands.

the problem is setting a max scroll point so that the clip stops scrolling at a certin point.

i have a set of actions on piticular frames.

for example

y = getProperty("office", _y);
setProperty ("office", _y, Number(y)-10);

what happans is a have a set of buttons which on roll over go to these frames.

im trying to set a max limit by using the if command but im having trouble

Any help people would be great. Always appreciate it

Mo...

Is There A Limit On Characters In A Scroll Text Box?
I built a scrolling text box from a tutorial here. I'm psyched it actually worked, BUT I noticed that if I put a ton of text in, it wouldn't work. When I took some out it did work. I had to keep playing with it and edit the text down. Even if I put some (
) returns in, it counted that. Is there a way to set the box to accept more characters?

Flash URL Limit From XML File - Only 127 Characters?
I want to load a link from an xml file with a long URL (about 160 characters) but the whole URL is not loading up. I found this documentation from the Macromedia site regarding the problem:
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/kn...fm?id=tn_15598

But I'm not using the character panel to produce the URL, because I'm using XML. Has anyone encountered this problem? If so, were you able to resolve it?

Please share!

Simple Question - Is It Possible To Limit The Characters Typed Into A Box?
Is it possible to limit the amount of characters used in a message box (not a text box)?

I think this is easy but I cant find out how!

Thanks in advance

Flash8 * Limit The Amount Of Characters In Dynamic Text.
hi all,

i am struggling with the following.

A have a big chunk of dynamic text (from a db). From this text i am making a .pdf.
So i would like to limit the amount of outputted text as a page can run out of space.

I have tried to do it with search and replace. But the problem is that it counts only characters instead of characters in combination with whitespace and the number of lines.

There is space for 100 characters/spaces on each line, and a total of 38 lines on one page.

So i am thinking of something like this:
* count all new lines represented by

* count all characters/whitespaces dived to the number of lines to check if this fits the number of
(as it uses wordwap)

Anyone with bright ideas on how to approach this?

(btw. TextField.maxChars will not work as it's dynamic text...)

HTML Formatted Dynamic Textfield - Limit To Amount Of Characters?
I've got a dynamic textfield that's set up to import HTML formatted text. I've run into a strange problem though... it seems as though the textfield will only allow a certain number of characters (around 620).

Is there some way around this? Or am I missing something?

Thanks

Is There A Limit To The Frame Number?
well, is there? I mean is it possiblethat flash will not show frames from frame 50,005 or somethinf like that?
thanx people.

Is There A Limit To The Number Of Variables?
I've got a project that could easily have more than 3,000 variables. Before I proceed, has anyone had any experience working with a project with this many variables? Does anyone have any thougts on Flash's maximum possible variables?

Thanks,
Layne

.scroll : Getting Around Whole Number Limit?
Hi,
is there any way to use the .scroll property on a textfield in LESS than whole increments? In other words, incrementing by 1 each time is too fast for my needs, I would like to scroll by .25 or .10 or something less than 1. Is that possible? If not, is there a way to fake it thats not more trouble than its worth?

thx,

-Z

Limit Number Of Lines
I know how to limit the number of characters that a user can input, but is there a way to limit the number of lines that a user can input into a textbox.

Limit To Number Movieclips?
Is there a limit to the number of movieclips you can have in a flash movie? I'm creating a flash movie that will have over 5000 dynamically created movieclips. Could this cause a problem?

Jon

"I don't regret this, but I both rue and lament it."

Limit Number Of Checkboxes
does anybody know how to limit the number of checkboxes a visitor can click on your flash form? I want to limit it to two choices

Limit Number Of Lines In A Textfield
Hi there!

i need to limit the number of lines in a text field... Can any one help?

I know how to limit the number of characters, but that's no good. I need to limit the text field so that it prints in 2 pages. First I just counted the number of chars, but someone could insert several returns, the max number of chars would not be reached but it would still not fit in the printed page.

Thanx!!

Float? Limit A Number To Decimals
1.89898 to limit to 1 decimal like this 1.8
in flash mx

thanks!!!

InputText - Way To Limit Number Of Lines
Is there a way to limit the number of lines that a user can type into in a input text field -if multiline is selected then the user can pretty much type for ever - can this be limited to let's say 3 lines. Also can the letting (the space between the lines of text) be changed to tighten up the text that's input.
Thanks.

Limit On Number Of Movie Clips
Hi,

I am writing a flash script that needs to put on stage about 1,000-10,000 movie clips.
Unfortunately, this application is extremely slow, and practically crashes Flash.

I am wondering whether this is an inevitable result when working with thousands of movie clips.

Does anyone have an experience with working with thousands of movie clips? Any recommendations??

How Do I Limit The Number Of Spinning Balls?
I'd like to limit the number of spinning balls to five (5):

code: count = 0;
while (count < VerticeNum) {
count ++;
this["z" add count] = int(random(200))-100;
this["x" add count] = int(random(200))-100;
this["y" add count] = int(random(200))-100;
duplicateMovieClip("Vertex", "Vertex" add count, count );
}
setProperty("Vertex", _visible, 0);
setProperty("Line", _visible, 0);
CenterRotationX = 0;
CenterRotationY = 0;

[F8] Limit Number Of Copies Within A Script?
Hi everyone.

I'm using the following script to generate snow, bubbles, falling hearts for valentinesday, or stuff like that.

function onEnterFrame() {
var mydepth = getNextHighestDepth();
var copy = heart.duplicateMovieClip('sne'+mydepth,mydepth);

copy._x = random(900);
copy._xscale = random(100);
copy._yscale = copy._xscale;
copy._alpha = copy._xscale;
copy._rotation = random(15);
}

The problem is that it just keeps going on and on, and if you wait long enough, it starts skipping frames, and eventually it'll jam up the entire computer.

Is there any way to limit the number of copies, or the available depth-levels?

As you might guess I'm not really an ActionScript-buff... ;-)

Cheers

Limit Number Of Charecters Per Line
Hi guys,

Is there a way to limit the number of charecters per line of a label I create on the fly?

Limit On Number Of Form Variables
Is there a limit on the number of variables that one can have in a form? One of my forms has 10 variables. Is that alright?

Also can one name a variable with two words. For example, water supply. Two words with a space between.

Mary Alice
art.design@comcast.net

Limit To Number Of Images In A File?
i am encountering the strangest bug. i have scrolling thumbnails moving accross the screen, about 50 in total. each is a JPG image imported into flash. the scroll is then duplicated to create the effect of a never ending scroll.

when i export the movie, this is what happens:
http://www.lousch.net/bau/bug/prod_p...ks_plastic.swf

(you'll notice the first few images are completely "smudged"). i can't seem to figure this out - has any one ever encountered such a problem?

How To Change ODD Input Number To EVEN Input Number?
Hi Flash Friends -

I'm hoping you can help me out with an Actionscript question...I've built a small commerce site in Flash MX designed to help women find their true bra size, however, I must make it compatible with Flash player 4.

I'm having trouble trying to figure out how to convert one of the input variables to an EVEN number if the user enters an ODD number.

My input text variables are "bandinput" and "brainput" -- and I need to ensure that bandinput is always an EVEN number.

My code is below and I really hope that someone can lend me a hand with this one ;-)

Thanks!
Jenny

---------------------

on (release) {

if (brainput-bandinput eq 0) {
cupsize = "AA";
} else if (brainput-bandinput eq 1) {
cupsize = "A";
} else if (brainput-bandinput eq 2) {
cupsize = "B";
} else if (brainput-bandinput eq 3) {
cupsize = "C";
} else if (brainput-bandinput eq 4) {
cupsize = "D";
} else if (brainput-bandinput eq 5) {
cupsize = "DD";
} else {
cupsize = "F";
}

sizeoutput = bandinput add cupsize;

play();
}

Is There A Limit To Number Of Flash Levels That Can Be Displayed
i have been creating a site that uses 4 levels of flash movies - one level controls another etc ....

this works fine - testing locally on may machine

when i uploaded it it works fine in Safari (i am mac os x) but in internet explorer one of the levels keeps unloading

the link is here:

www.nexusmediadesign.co.uk/james070106/

i could change it, but it seems that every change he makes it - makes the whole thing start to get jumbled up -0 so i would rather have an explanation as to what is going on first

cheers

jd@nxmd.co.uk

Number Of Localconnection Instances Limit On Macs?
I have spent the last week developing a reusable play/pause button for web sites with multiple audio files on the same page. For example, a site may have 10 sample audio files and each one is assigned its own play/pause swf button. Only one audio file should play at once so I use local connections to make the other SWF files aware of the current state and stop when another starts playing.

This is working perfectly in windows but I find that on Mac 10.5 (leopard), once I put more than six instances of the button on a page, the buttons stop talking to each other correctly. Has anyone run into a local connection instance limit before and found a work-around?

The example below works fine from Windows machines but it does not on Leopard machines. I have not tested it with a Mac Tiger machine.

http://kevinmcgurn.com/clients/audio...namicHost.html

Kevin

Making A Counter With A Daily Number Limit
I need to make a counter in flash that counts 2000 numbers a day...so the first day it would start at 0, then the second it would start at 2001, etc. I'm more of an interactive designer, so I know next to nothing about AS2, can anyone help me get started with this? I don't even know what functions I would need to use....

I have a dynamic text field called "counter" that the 'count' will be sent to, because it's going to be displayed on the stage.

Thanks in advance for the help!

AS3 - Is There A Limit To The Number Of Classes/amount Of Code In A SWF?
We are having an issue where we have lots of classes (200+) and recently when trying to compile we end up with a blank SWF...

Flash is not completing the compilation/corrupting as the SWF's size should be around 400kb and is 75kb.

This has only happend since adding a couple of new classes. When we comment out some of the older classes it compiles fine.

Is there a limit to the amount of classes/code allowed in a SWF?

Help US dudes & dudettes!

neb

Limit Number Of Characters In Input Field Any Ideas?

I made a form in flash but I only want to let the user input 5 characters in the zip code field. Does anyone know the code to tell flash to stop allowing input after 5 characters?