Line Breaks In Dynamic Text Field
How do you do it. I basically want to be able to put double spaces between my paragraphs.
This is how my text field is set
ActionScript Code:
set (myTextField, "A bunch of text here");
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Posted on: 02-29-2004, 06:02 PM
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I thought that my Word Wrap option in Notepad might POSSIBLY be messing it up, so I turned that off, but it didn't change anything.
Any ideas?
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Currently I'm using javascript which works fine to pass text from textfield A to textfield B:
Code:
window.onload=function()
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Hi, I've been browsing these forums for a long time but this is my first post.
I'm creating an interface by which a user can design and order their own customized decal. Please see my example (I've added my script at the bottom of this post):
http://www3.sympatico.ca/sin.young/decaldesigner.html
My issues are:
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color1 = new Color(decalColor);
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My problems is, that as soon as the user clicks the button to go to another point in the timeline, and they come back, those input textfields that they entered data in are now empty again.
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Here's a link to a very simple zip file (as example) containing the conflictive fla and other files, for those of you who may want to have a look at it.
TO SIMPLIFY THINGS:
It seems that whenever I use a couple of AS instructions to load some Dynamic text from a text file, Forms which are based in formmail, stop working (no matter if these forms are made of dynamic or static text). Why??
INTO MORE DETAILS:
In the attached fla example file here, I've simplified things very much by just leaving 2 Forms (one made with Dynamic text and another one without any dynamic text on it).
Very peculiar, if in frame 1 I call the variables from the text file:
ActionScript Code:
webcontent= "File.txt"loadVariablesNum (webcontent, 0);
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As soon as I delete these 2 lines of AS, they work properly again (although of course, no words can be seen in the Form made with dynamic text).
Both submit buttons contain the following AS:
ActionScript Code:
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So...I don't have the least idea of what's going on with this all.
Perhaps any of you could explain what's wrong with such a simple thing like this and how to avoid this strange behaviour.
Thank you very much!
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This matter is something I haven't been able to solve for long and now I'm really desperate to find out an answer.
Here's a link to a very simple zip file (as example) containing the conflictive fla and other files, for those of you who may want to have a look at it.
TO SIMPLIFY THINGS:
It seems that whenever I use a couple of AS instructions to load some Dynamic text from a text file, Forms which are based in formmail, stop working (no matter if these forms are made of dynamic or static text). Why??
INTO MORE DETAILS:
In the attached fla example file here, I've simplified things very much by just leaving 2 Forms (one made with Dynamic text and another one without any dynamic text on it).
Very peculiar, if in frame 1 I call the variables from the text file:
ActionScript Code:
webcontent= "File.txt"loadVariablesNum (webcontent, 0);
the 2 Forms stop working properly: The static one doesn't even seem to submit data and the dynamic one, it seems data has been sent but data is never received.
As soon as I delete these 2 lines of AS, they work properly again (although of course, no words can be seen in the Form made with dynamic text).
Both submit buttons contain the following AS:
ActionScript Code:
on (release) { subject = "Customer Form from your Web"; recipient = "info@mydomain.com"; loadVariables ("http://www.mydomain/cgi-bin/formmail.pl", "", "POST"); _root.Form.gotoAndStop ("Thanks");}
So...I don't have the least idea of what's going on with this all.
Perhaps any of you could explain what's wrong with such a simple thing like this and how to avoid this strange behaviour.
Thank you very much!
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