Flash :: Linking From Dynamic Textfields

Linking Textfields (like Quark Xpress Etc)
Hi all,

I'm working on an app in which I'm loading HTML into a textfield. The textfield is visually a page in a book. Now what I want to do is create m,ultiple textfields and link them in such a way that if the text is to long for one textfield, it continues in another textfield. But I'm not sure how I would go about doing that. I thought of working with the autosize feature and splitting to HTML into array parts on every   after which I keep on feeding the textfield and measuring it untill it has reached the max size. But isn't there another way? Maybe with scroll? Just wondering what your ideas on this would be...

Cheers

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MX Dynamic TextFields
I'm using an external text file variable to load text into a dynamic textfield in flash MX. I have a new scrollbar UI Component working with the text field. But there seems no way to get the HTML tags in the external text file working. Any ideas! I want to keep the text content for my textfields in separate files. Do I have to stop using the "oh-so-useful " scrollbar component?"

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Dynamic Textfields?
I am currently making a personal website and I want it to include a news section. It's a pain to upload the flash movie every time something is changed, so I was looking for an alternitive. I know there is a way to create an external file that can be loaded into the movie, which solves my problem. However, I don't know how to do this correctly. I've done this one time, but every time I tried to use html in the file, it wouldn't load. I tried selecting and deselecting the html option in the textfield options in flash, but still no text!

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Version:
-Flash 5

Questions:
-How do I go about making a text field that can contain loaded text ( including basic html ) from an external file.
-What specific coding will I need to include in the external file.
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Any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Sorry if I'm the 50,000 person to ask about this, oh well

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Dynamic Textfields Help
I am relatively fresh to ActionScript since all my work so far has been done in the "graphic" part of the flash. I would like to know if it is possible to create more than 1 dynamic text box with createTextField command and followed by setTextFormat? If I tried to do it in a row Flash will display only the last one text.

I could not find this in the manual and don't know how to solve this problem. Help is appreciated! here is the code i used so far

//--------------------------------------------------------------------

MovieClip.prototype.create_text=function(sTextName ){
var nWidth:Number = mcDisplayBackground._width;
var nHeight:Number = mcDisplayBackground._height+1;
var nX:Number = mcDisplayBackground._x+3;
var nY:Number = mcDisplayBackground._y-1.5;
this.createTextField("tData", this.getNextHighestDepth(), nX, nY, nWidth, nHeight);
tData.text = sTextName;
tData.selectable = false;
tData.multiline = false;
tData.wordWrap = false;
var tfFormatter:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
tfFormatter.font = "kroeger 05_56";
tfFormatter.size = 8;
tfFormatter.color = 0x7fdc09;
tData.setTextFormat(tfFormatter);
}
create_text("INTERACTIVE PORTFOLIO");

//--------------------------------------------------------------------

agent _toto

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Having An '&' In Dynamic Textfields
Excuse me,

I am getting dynamic information pulled in from a txt file which contain multiple variables, so the variable name has to start with the '&' for each variable in the txt file. But is there a way I can have an '&' pulled in from the txt file into the flash's dynamic text box without flash thinking it's the start of another variable?

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Dynamic Textfields ...
Hi, thanks for viewing this thread,
Created an e-mail textfiled (var-name = Email).
-
Is it possible to tell a button to only accept an entry when certain characters appear in that textfield? Here is what I'm about trying to do:
code: on (release) {
if (Email eq "" || Email eq "undefined") {
_parent.Status = "PLEASE ENTER YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS.";
} else if (/* Email does not contain characters "@" and "." */) {
_parent.Status = "PLEASE ENTER A VALID E-MAIL ADDRESS";
} else if /* +++ FURTHER SCRIPT +++ */
Thanks for your advice!
aut.

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Tab To Dynamic TextFields
Is it possible to tab to a dynamic TextField? I've failed miserably to do so today.

Tabbing to input text fields works but it ignores the dynamic TextFields. I need to tab to them in order for screen readers to read them. I've set tabEnabled, tabIndex, the AccessibilityProperties but can't for the life of me find a way to tab to dynamic TextFields.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Bob

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[AS2 OOP] - Dynamic MCs Or TextFields
Hi,
as you'll see with the following snippet of code, I'm rather new to OOP for Flash.
I've been trying to dynamically create a textField with no luck.

Code:
//mcPath:MovieClip is a parameter passed to the class' constructor
var myArray:Array = new Array("one", "two", "three");
for (var i=0; i>myArray.length; i++) {var eval("myMc_" + i):MovieClip = mcPath.createTextField("tempText" + i, mcPath.getNextHighestDepth(), 9, 30, 552, 0);
}
The problem is that I get an error: (Syntax error)
Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks

ps. I did look around, but couldn't find anything that could be of help to my problem. I'm sorry if this issue has already been dealt in the pass.

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Dynamic Textfields
I was wondering...
Can you somehow have a text dynamically loaded into textfields in separate columns?
Like if you had paragraph 1 on the right, and paragraph 2 on the left, but they actually load one text file or xml ?

if I read this I wouldn't understand it myself so I'll have to post a picture if you think it'd help.

ciao

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Dynamic Textfields.
Hi all,

I have lite bit of a problem.

What i want to do is to use an dynamic text field like a Iframe, like in html.

Reason for this is that i whant to load an text file with a bunch of variables in to the text field. Some of these variables is html links to other text files(also with a bunch of variables). I want to be able to click the links and the new text file is loaded in the dynamic text field, insteed of the original text file.

I hope i didn't make my self to un clear.

Best regards fredrik

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Dynamic Textfields
Hey

I have a function called addMenuText that is supposed to add ilnks, like a menu. So far i have this.

Code:

   public function addMenuTxt() {

      var _menuItem:Array = new Array("WEB", "DIGITAL ART", "3D MODELING", "IDENTITY", "PRINT");

      for (var i=0; i<_menuItem.length; i++) {

         var item = _menuItem[i];
         trace(item);

      }


      trace("-------------------------------------");
      trace("/////////////ADD MENU TEXT///////////");
      trace("-------------------------------------");

   }

How do i put the content from the Array into som dynamics textfields and make them a button?

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Placing Dynamic Textfields
I'm wondering how I can give a dynamic textfield his place in my movie by setting it's _x and _y property. It seems like it ain't possible to do this. Or am I just looking in the wrong direction?

I would really appreciate your help on this subject.

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Adding Dynamic Textfields
Hi

I've set up the following script on a mc to add two sets of two dynamic textfields (simply using single digit numbers), all of the four getting their info from external txt files:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_root.right = (Number(righttestcheck)+Number(righttestcheck3));
_root.wrong = (Number(_root.wrongtestcheck))+(Number(_root.wrong testcheck3));
}

Check this out for weird - the _root.right section is duff. In the setup above (without _root. statements for the two variables), it won't do the addition, the 'right' or result textbox simply remains '0'. If the _root. pointers are added, it returns a NaN error.

And to top it all off, the _root.wrong part works just fine.

I've checked the paths, the combinations of variables, etc and nothing works. Is there a specific set up for more than one onClipEvent on a mc, maybe.
Anyone have any ideas? If you need the files, please just ask.
I'm going mad.

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Addressing Dynamic TextFields?
So I am using this function to generate a row of movieClip instances to serve a navigational button on my site:

function makeButtons(){

nav._visible=0

var Button_array = _level0.one.buttons.split(",");

Button_length = Button_array.length;

xposition=80
for (i=0; i<Button_length; i++) {
duplicateMovieClip (nav, "nav" add i, i);
setProperty ("nav" add i, _x, xposition);

set ("nav" add i add ".Button", Button_array[i]);

--> set ("nav" add i add "_width", Button_array[i].length * 8);

--> xposition = xposition + (((Button_array[i].length) * 8) + 10);

}

}

the "-->"'s in the above quote are not part of the code. Those are the lines I wan to call attention to.

The first sets the width of the clip based on the length of the string stored in the Button_array; these strings are all navigational choices.

The second attempts to maintain even spacing by examining each string and mulitplying it by an average pixel value.

This is all irrelevant in a way, since it has been pointed out to me in this very forum that examining the string is not the correct wat to do what I want to do.

It seems instead that I want to examine the .textWidth property of the textField object which inhabits each duplicated movie clip and has an instance name of "field" in the original.

When I place this code directly on the movieClip to be duplicated:

trace (this.field.textWidth);

I get the values I need, but I can't seem to reference them correctly from within the function described above. It is defined on the first frame of the same movie which the button duplication takes place.

It seems to me that if I could solve the addressing problem, and replace the call for this value:

Button_array[i].length

with one that corresponded instead to the textWidth property of the intance a hand, I'd be closer to the edge of the woods, on the way out.

I know I am kind of retrofitting strategies here, and I should point out that I have already been steered toward using the textField.autoSize method, though I do not
yet know how to get it to work for what I am trying to do.

?

Thanks for listening

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Dynamic Naming Of Textfields
I am trying to set up a dynamic tab order. This requires that textfields in a source movieclip are named dynamically (that is with increasing numbers) as the source movieclip is copied into the main movie. How can I do that?

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Problem With Dynamic Textfields
Well in my main swf (the main site) i have this mc (called container) in which I load other swfs (to minimalise loading time).

Now these swfs have some dynamic textfields in them, that work just fine (show the text) when i test the swfs.
In the actions layer of these swfs i have code like : textbox ="texthere";

But... when i load the swfs in the main site, the textfields do not show at all.
I've tried changing the code in the swfs to _root.container.textbox ="test"; and I have even tried to put this exact code in the actionslayer of the main site, but nothing works. The text just won't show.

Thats about the best i can explain...

Does anyone of you have any idea what the problem might be?
Thanks for your time

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Printing Dynamic Textfields?
Hi

I am workong on an app that parses in XML data in 6 languages. I need to be able to print out portions of this data. As I don't know the number of pages to print out, because this will vary from user to user and language to language, I am testing ways of achieving the printout. I have a few issues so far:

1) How can I add dynamic #p markers?
I don't think this is possible, I have tried attaching MCs with a #p marker embedded but I only want one print dialog box coming up for the user. I am using the printasbitmap(movie,"bmovie") command and can only target one MC.

2) How can I measure page overlap?
I have autosize textfields that I am populating from the XML, however I can't work out how to obtain the 'chunk' of data that I will need to be moved to the next page. Because of the multilingual aspect I can't rely on character counts. I will need to determine exactly how many lines I can fit on each page. I have experimented with textfield heights, but this doesn't give me a way of targeting the data to move to the next page.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Wayne

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Limitations With Dynamic Textfields?
Hi,
I set up a whole website and then i realized that small fonts couldn't be read in small resolutions. So I changed the text blocks into dynamic text fields (with different variable names) and then they just won't appear (other parts of the symbol.
Is there any limitation under masks? is it because they are nestled in various other movieclips?
What kind of limitations do they have?
info: they are used inside buttons nestled in movieclips.

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Info In Dynamic Textfields
flash mx

i have two arrays and a dynamic textfield

Code:
arrayA = new Array(3);
arrayA[0] = "a";
arrayA[1] = "b";
arrayA[2] = "c";

arrayB = new Array(3);
arrayB[0] = "d";
arrayB[1] = "e";
arrayB[2] = "f";
and with a click of a button, i want to have "this" display in the dynamic textfield:

Quote:

arrayA[0]=a&arrayA[1]=b&arrayA[2]=c&arrayB[0]=d&arrayB[1]=e&arrayB[2]=f

here is the code that i am using, but it's only displaying part of the information that i want

the dynamic textfield is the clipboard

Code:
on (release)
{
for(i=0;i<2;i++)
{
clipboard = clipboard + "arrayA[" + i + "]=" + arrayA[i] + "&";
}
for(i=0;i<2;i++)
{
clipboard = clipboard + "arrayB[" + i + "]=" + arrayB[i] + "&";
}
}
and here is what the code is displaying:

Quote:

arrayA[0]=&arrayA[1]=&arrayA[2]=&arrayB[0]=&arrayB[1]=&arrayB[2]=&

it's not dispalying the string that's stored in the array element

if anyone knows how i can fix that, please help me...
thank you!!!

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Spacing Dynamic Textfields. Why Not?
Hi there,

I would have liked to be able to space the text in a dynamic textbox. This, however, isn't possible. Why? What's so different between 'leading' and 'kerning (/spacing)'? Every other text property is adjustable (even dynamicaly now, in MX) BUT the spacing. And I think this is an important property when working with text on a screen.

What do you think my fellow flashers?

cYa.

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Not All Dynamic Textfields Load
Does anyone have an idea why Some of my sites dynamic text fields load from the external text files and some don't.
On the site the 'about', 'contact', 'calendar', and 'notes' sections are all loaded fron external text files. The calendar and notes sections are fine but the other two are blank. I have no problem when testing these from my HD. I have checked and checked again the script in the movie to be sure of spelling and everything correct. I have the text files in the same location as the movie.

If you would like to take a look here is the link: Study Buddy

thanks,

chosenson

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Dynamic Textfields = Godsend
My text looks so much more crisper now that I use dynamic text-fields more often, kinda like a flash side-effect (the text doesnt anti-alias when using dynamic textfields), just wanted to thank oldnewbie for helping me with the custom scrollbar, aswell i want to thank whoever pointed out that nifty trick with dynamic textfields, tho i did notice that dynamic textfields did that in the past, i never thought to actually use it to my advangtage, good sh!#

http://cgnation.netfirms.com/Flash/d...mscroller.html

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Pictures In Dynamic Textfields?
Is there any way to get pictures to show in a dynamictextfield that I used to make a actionscripted scrollpane?

I want to have a few pictures along with the choosen text I have. If ye want to look at the page then go to:

http://home.swipnet.se/Zazi/Artifacts/

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Formatting Dynamic Textfields With Css
Hi there, ive made an xml driven navigation menu for our website, im just in the final stages of formatting it and was trying to give the new .css support a go.

The buttons are generated and then this function was used to format them:

Code:
function FormatNewClip (i, x, y, Clip, style, buttonText)
{
Clip.trackAsMenu = true;
Clip.createTextField ("name", i, x, y, 1, 1);
Clip.name.autoSize = true;
Clip.name.type = "dynamic";
Clip.name.embedFonts = true;
Clip.name.setNewTextFormat (style);
Clip.name.text = buttonText;

}
That's all good.

I try to throw in .css styling and it all seems to go pete tong - the buttons aren't getting formatted. I've just been trying inline styling to see if i could get it to work:

Code:
function FormatSubClip (i, x, y, Sub, buttonText)
{
Sub.trackAsMenu = true;
Sub.createTextField ("name", i, x, y, 1, 1);
Sub.name.html = true;
Sub.name.autoSize = true;
Sub.name.type = "dynamic";
Sub.name.embedFonts = true;
SubStyle = new TextField.StyleSheet();
SubStyle.setStyle("a:link", {color: "#ff0000"});
Sub.name.styleSheet = SubStyle;
Sub.name.text.htmlText = "&lta&gt + buttonText + "&lt/a&gt";

}
I might be being ridiculous (it is monday morning!) if you can help then i'd be much obliged.

Cheers guys,

James

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Rotate Dynamic Textfields?
why do dynamic textfields appear blank when it's rotated?

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Dynamic Textfields And Fonts
hi,
i'm in the middle of a thing involving text loaded dynamically from xml files on which i apply a TextFormat()...
i need to apply bold on some part of it but the fake bold from flash doesn't work on the font i use and i was wondering if there was a way to apply another font (eg: the bold version of my font previously used) in the text...

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Dynamic Textfields Not Generating ? Help
Hi guys im expecting this following code to give me 5 rows of username firstname familyname
But instead i just get 5 rows with just
familyname

username and firstname do not appear in each row..does anyone have any idea why this is happening..im sure im making some silly mistake bu ti cant see it Thanks in advance..appreciate it

the code is

Code:

mcMain= _root;

var depth:Number;
var nX:Number = 50;
var nY:Number = 100;

for(var i:Number=0; i<5;i++){
depth = mcMain.getNextHighestDepth();

mcMain.createTextField("username"+i,depth,nX,nY,0,0);
mcMain.createTextField("firstname"+i,depth,nX+40,nY,0,0);
mcMain.createTextField("familyname"+i,depth,nX+60,nY,0,0);

mcMain["username"+i].autoSize = "left";
mcMain["firstname"+i].autoSize = "left";
mcMain["familyname"+i].autoSize = "left";

mcMain["username"+i].text = "username";
mcMain["firstname"+i].text = "firstname";
mcMain["familyname"+i].text = "familyname";
trace(depth);
nY+=50;

}

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Dynamic TextFields In ScrollPane... Or Thats
Dynamic textFields in scrollPane... or thats what I'm trying to achieve.

I want to have a flash page dynamically grow as I add content (text and images).

Any ideas on how to do this?

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Populating Dynamic Textfields
Hi, im using this code to create dynamic text fields on my stage and populate them from an array.

Code:
for (i=1;i<Number(_root.myvars.total)+1;i++){
myarray=_root.myvars["player"+i]
myarray=myarray.split(",");

_root.createTextField("mytext"+i,i,300,200+(i*10),300,100);
_root["mytext"+i].multiline = true;
_root["mytext"+i].wordWrap = false;
_root["mytext"+i].border = false;

myformat = new TextFormat();
myformat.color = 0x000000;
myformat.font = "eurostile";
myformat.size = 10
myformat.bold = true
myformat.leading = 5

_root["mytext"+i].text = myarray[4];
_root["mytext"+i].setTextFormat(myformat);

}

however, i want to have these inserted to a movie clip inserted on my stage, how should i adjust accordingly?

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Array Of Dynamic Textfields?
Hi all,

I'm wondering if there's a way to do this...

I have seven values from an XML file that I'd like to display in seven dynamic textfields. I'd also like to do some processing on the text in those fields based on certain user input.

I was hoping that I could name my dynamic textfields things like myText[0] and then go through my XML data and do something like this:

myText[0] = myXML[0].attributes.name;
myText[1] = myXML[1].attributes.name;

(or using a For loop)

and so on but that doesn't seem to work.

Is there a way to do something like this without resorting to hard-coded dynamic textfieldnames and iterating through them by explicitly?

Thanks!

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[F8] Keyed Dynamic Textfields
I'm having a tough time setting the text in a dynamic text field that rests inside of a symbol that I'm moving around with key frames. I've tried everything from text_field.text to using the variable tracer. I've used globals, hand offs, just about everything and the result is always the same, a blank field. Oddly enough, when I output textfield.text it says it has the text I want it to.

Any thoughts?

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[F8] Equality In Dynamic TextFields
Hey all, I'm trying to equate (==) two dynamic textfields and having some difficulty.

CODE:

for(i=0; i<37; i++) {
if(this["o"+i] == this.cal_mc.lrgNum) {
this["o"+i].textColor = 0xBAFF0A;
} else {
this["o"+i].textColor = 0xFFFFFF;
}
}

Am I even close?

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How Do I Create Dynamic Textfields?
In AS3 I would like to create textfields dynamically in a loop:

var textContent1:TextField;
textContent1 = new TextField();
...
var textContent2:TextField;
textContent2 = new TextField();
...

How can I do that?

regards Martin

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[f8]dynamic Textfields And Css Styles -
Hi guys, I have not used actionscript with css styling before and have encountered what I would have thought is a simple problem that I would really apprecaite some helping resolving.

Basically, I have a movieclip in the library (named: content_mc) that contains another movieclip that contains a dynamic textbox that is named category_txt and is set to allow html content. I want to attach and duplicate this whole movieclip a set amount of times depending on a variable number which will eventually be pulled in using an .xml file. Once the movieclip has been attached and duplicated I want to be able to apply a stylesheet to each instance of the dynamic textfields found within each duplicate of the attached movieclip and then pass dynamic html formatted content to them also. I am loading my stylesheet from an external source and have checked styles are formatted correctly and that I have embedded fonts into my dynamic textfields too, nothing works.

Obviously, the attach and duplicate bit was no problem but I just can't find the right way to apply the stylesheets to each dynamic textfield. I have attempted many different variations on the following code, but just can't seem to get it to work. I am thinking it may have something to do with allowing the timing of each element that is needed or a problem with my loop etc?

Code:
stop();
var loopNumber:Number = 5;//(will be changed to a dynamic variable in .xml file eventually

var newStyleSheet:TextField.StyleSheet = new TextField.StyleSheet();

newStyleSheet.load("test.css");

for (var i = 1; i<loopNumber+1; i++) {
this.attachMovie("content_mc","content_mc"+i,i,{_x:2, _y:115*i-115});
this["content_mc"+i].contentLoader_mc.loadMovie("assets/graphics/contentBar.png");
this["content_mc"+i].photoLoader_mc.loadMovie("assets/expertPhotos/photo"+i+".jpg");

// PROBLEMS START FROM HERE DOWN!

this["content_mc"+i].categoryTxtHolder_mc.category_txt.styleSheet = newStyleSheet;
this["content_mc"+i].categoryTxtHolder_mc.category_txt.htmlText = "<p >test has worked </p>";
//will be changed to a
dynamic variable from within a .xml file eventually!

}

Thanks in advance and all the best,

vreb

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Dynamic Textfields In Flash
Hi,

Currently I am working on jet2holidays.com and the main banner on the page is now flash, but was previously static with a dynamic price control which would read and display the best price of a certain holiday.

We have had to change it to flash to display multiple promos but I was wondering if there was a way to display these prices dynamically giving the best price. And secondly if there was a way we could display different prices per scene?

The back end is in .net sql.

Thanks,

gecko2.

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Dynamic Resizing Of TextFields
Thought this problem would be discussed already, but I didn't find it. What's bothering me is that I have a textField which I need to resize dynamically in AS. As this is done with the tF._width and _height the text is stretched. Not ok.

The TF is part of a text editor and the format varies inside (different sizes, colors etc) so saving and readding the textFormat is not an option. But this is such a general problem there must be a simple answer, or?

I realised the same problem occurs when resizing a tf on the stage, but I solved that by using Text Tool to resize. Doing it with AS remains a problem however. Any ideas?

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XML Nodes Into Dynamic Textfields.
Ok.. here is my issue..
I am building a vertical scrolling thumbnail bar(panel_mc)..... Inside panel_mc, I have thumbnails that load into movieclips via xml...

image_mcl.loadClip(thumbnails[k], "panel_mc.p"+k);

The thumbs load into sequential clips named p1, p2, p3, and so on. To the right of these thumbs I have dynamic text fields that I want to hold the titles of the artwork. This is also via xml.

Here is the xml loop:
function loadXML(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
xmlNode = this.firstChild;
image = [];
description = [];
thumbnails = [];
bigpic = [];
total = xmlNode.childNodes.length;
for (i=0; i<total; i++) {
image[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
description[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
thumbnails[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[2].firstChild.nodeValue;
bigpic[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[3].firstChild.nodeValue;
thumbnails_fn(i);
loadText(i);
}
}
}
I thought i could use the same process as I used for the thumbs... by naming the text fields t0, t1, t2, t3 and so on.

This is where i'm completely stuck... I am an actionscript rookie.

function loadText(k) {
panel_mc.tk.text = description[k];
}
How do i pass k to the text field name?....
I have it rigged right now.. like this. There has got to be a better way.

function loadText() {

panel_mc.t0.text = description[0];
panel_mc.t1.text = description[1];
panel_mc.t2.text = description[2];
panel_mc.t3.text = description[3];
panel_mc.t4.text = description[4];
panel_mc.t5.text = description[5]
panel_mc.t6.text = description[6]
panel_mc.t7.text = description[7]
panel_mc.t8.text = description[8]
panel_mc.t9.text = description[9]
panel_mc.t10.text = description[10]
panel_mc.t11.text = description[11]
panel_mc.t12.text = description[12]
panel_mc.t13.text = description[13]
panel_mc.t14.text = description[14]

}
I would appreciate some help.
Thanks for your time....
illebas

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Loop For Dynamic TextFields
Hi,

Trying to create text fields... 10 rows, 4 in each row.

This doesn't throw an error...

for(var i:Number=0; i<contentArray.length; i++){
for(var j:Number=1; j<5; j++){ this.createTextField("textField"+i+j,i+j,i*30,j*30 ,100,30);
}
}

But Debug > Objects shows that it only creates 4 across on the last j loop:

Target="_level0.textField01"
Target="_level0.textField11"
Target="_level0.textField21"
Target="_level0.textField31"
Target="_level0.textField41"
Target="_level0.textField51"
Target="_level0.textField61"
Target="_level0.textField71"
Target="_level0.textField81"
Target="_level0.textField91"
Target="_level0.textField92"
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Target="_level0.textField94"

Stupidity... or ???

thx.

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