Flash :: Not A Usual Linebreak Problem...

Linebreak In Dynamic Textfield
Hi, - I have a dynamic text field variable called:
_root.textTogether;

Okay, - then I have some text in frame 1 and I want that to be in my text box. Easy, - _root.textTogether=myText;

in frame 2 I have and other text I want to add to the textTogether var. Easy, - _root.textTogether=_root.textTogether + myText2;

My question is:

How do I make a line break in my text box between myText and myText2 ??

Regards

Godowsky

Linebreak In A Datagrid Cell
hello,
Can I put a linebreak in a datagrid (mx 2004) cell, is it by using '
'? Or by using and html break ?

[F8] Linebreak In The Middle Of Word
Hello
I got this function that formats text in a dynamic textfield. It makes the size as high as can be for the entire text to be visible in the textfield. My only problem is that it does not care if it has to linebreak in the middle of a long word. Here is an exampel: The text is: "I like Zooooolander, the brilliant movie". The while-loop will exit when the size is down to 36 when the entire text fits inside the textfield. This is what the textfield will look like at that time:
I like
Zoooooland
er, the
brilliant
movie

I want my while-loop to continue to run if any word get chopped off. And if that isnt possible, I would greatly appreciate other thought on solving this.

h=270;
function fitText(field) {

var h = field._height;

var tf = field.getTextFormat();
tf.size = 100;
field.setTextFormat(tf);

while(field.textHeight > h-10) {
tf.size -= 1;
field.setTextFormat(tf);

}
trace(tf.size);
}
tf.wordWrap = true;

tf.text = "I like Zooooolander, the brilliant movie"
fitText(tf);

Linebreak In Dynamic Text
Sorry for such a "beginner question" but thanks for your help.

I am simply trying to add a line break to a dynamtic text box when rolling over a button.

eg...
Happy Birthday
Joan

Have been trying things to the effect of...

On (rollover) {
bdaytext = "Happy Birthday "+/n+"Joan";

...as an expression.

But every variation I'm tried has been a waiste of time. Thanks for reading my post and thank you very much for your help.

How Not To Put A Linebreak Into Textfield After Pressing ENTER
Hi guys,
The point of my question looks quite easy but I can't find an answer for it. I have an input textfield (or textarea) and after pressing ENTER key, the text should be sent. That works without problems, the problem is that with multiline textfield pressing ENTER puts a linebreak, so the cursor jumps to the "2nd line" in the textfield. Does anybody know how to avoid this? The code I am using so far:

ActionScript Code:
var keySend:Object = new Object();function onEnterDown() { if (Key.isDown(Key.ENTER)) { chat_so.data.textmessage = message_ta.text+newline; chat_so.data.username = username; chat_ta.text += username+": "+message_ta.text+newline; message_ta.text = ""; }}keySend.onKeyDown = onEnterDown;message_ta.onSetFocus = function(){ Key.addListener(keySend);}message_ta.onKillFocus = function(){ Key.removeListener(keySend);}

Thanks a lot for any advice!

P.

How To Simulate Linebreak ( ) From Txt File Variables?
Hi,
how can I simulate line break (
) from txt file variables ?

Here is a code:

Code:
_root.createTextField("test_txt", 1, 10, 10, 300, 50);

test_txt.selectable = false;
test_txt.wordWrap = true;
test_txt.multiline = true;

// this line works
//test_txt.text = "First line
Second Line";

var lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
lv.load("test.txt");
lv.onLoad = function()
{
test_txt.text = this.textVar; //this dosen't :(
}
Text file contain this:
textVar=First line
Second Line

Thanks,

Formatting Variables In Txt File (linebreak/return?)
i've got a roster of players i want to load into flash to be displayed in a list, so i made a txt file like
varBoysRoster="..."; but i want to put returns between each name so each name is on a new line. i've run into something like this before i just can't remember what the symbol is. can someone help me out? thanks a bunch guys.

ps is var="..."; the right format otherwise? thanks again.

Long Form Field String: Howto Linebreak?
Hi,

(new to this forum .. ) anyway, what's my problem:

I have an ASP page wich contains form fields (multiline). A user enters some stuff in the form. He submits the form and the form variables are placed in a flash file containing text fields! (please note: the flash file resides in another ASP page )But when the user hits enter, the enter should also be displayed in the flash.

I've figured out how to fix this problem:

But now my _real_ problem
When the user types a long line with text the form field breaks the line and continues. For instance: "Hi, my name is TeeDee and I live in holland." The form field breaks the text up after TeeDee and continues on the next line.

How can I display that break in the flash file? "The form field generated break"

Thanks in advance
[Edited by TeeDee on 02-13-2002 at 07:23 PM]

What's Your Usual Way Of...
What's your usual way of forcing Flash/browsers to load foobar.xml each time someone visits the site instead of Flash simply loading up the one from the browser's cache?

There seem to be two ways of doing this that are the most common.

The first method is to add some random numbers to the end of the foobar.xml file.. "/xml/foobar.xml?0123456789" ..which I personally think is a bit of a no-no due to the fact that the browser will store a duplicate of the xml file each time it's loaded.

The second method is to stream the xml file through PHP (or ASP etc) and set the header() information to prevent the xml file from being cached in the first place (my prefered method).... or use .htaccess to tell the server to run .xml files as .php and do it that way.

I was just wondering which method you use and why?

The Usual Suspect...
Hello again,

I'm trying to build some simple interactive learning games for children at the minute, such as drag and drop spelling and counting games. Sadly I'm not having a terrible lot of success. Can anyone recommend some tutorials on such games or offer some sample code to show how things might work?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Not-The-Usual Preloader ?
Hello kirupa.com ,

I am looking for a way to make a multi-stage preloader for my website , normaly i would just use a MCL but i have to load XML content my website has about 15 XML files most are quite large a shell swf and shared libary swf

So we have
Shell.swf
Libary.sef
multiple.xml files

what i would like to do is load them all in one go with my custom progressbar with a trace textbox so we have

preloader > loading libary > loaading shell > loading xml > play shelll.swf

Is theyre any way to do this ?

Thanks a lot

Mp3s (not The Usual Q's)
Well, I'm making a projector-file to act as a music sampler (ie a nice exercise in Flash for me). A potential problem is that it has 500mb of mostly external mp3s.

If someone is insane enough to listen to it all at once, is this going to cause huge slow-down when their memory runs low? The unload command doesn't seem to be there for sound objects, but if I was to attach them to a movie-clip and them unload the mc, would that work to help reduce memory load?

I'm just worried that even unloading stuff won't help issues. Anyway, thanks for reading.

Exported .swf Is Larger Than Usual
Hello, I exported a sample .swi file to .swf and opened it on Netscape browser. The .swf looked much larger than the original size.

For example, if i exported Ray of Light sample file
,the word "SWISH" is at least larger than its original size by 50%.

Is there anything I can do with the export property to fix this problem ?

Thanks,

Not Your Usual Preload Question
I'm having trouble with a preloader. I've built a bunch of them before without any trouble, but this one is driving me nuts.

QUESTION
when i ask a preloader to load all the frames in a flash movie, will it actually try to run any scripts in the main timeline, or in any movieclips contained in it?

everything below this is extra info about the problem i'm having...just in case anyone can help.

flash 5

2 scenes, preloader and game, game contains a flash game (duh!) and preload contains the script....

if (_framesloaded == _totalframes) {
gotoAndPlay ("game", "startscript");
}
startscript is a valid label name.

now it seems to load all the frames in the movie, but when the movie actually loads the game won't play.

it works fine offline, which leads me to assume this is a memory problem, but no frame holds more than 15k of memory.

the game bombs at precisely the point where the first bit of script in the main timeline of the "game" scene should run.

the fla is at
http://www.geocities.com/chatterton72/memoryfix.fla

the swf is at
http://www.geocities.com/chatterton72/

please help. weeping over keyboard as i type...

Over My Head, As Usual For A Newbie
I need to make a three-part movie. My three parts are working separately. The last one is a typewriter that works continuously on dynamic text. (I can't get it out of its loop, I'm not smart enough.) So when I put the three parts together as scenes the last one takes over in its endless loop. So, what I am attempting to do is load it as movie and set the interval to how long I want it to play.
Here is the code for the third part of the movie:

Slide ONE:
//set our counting-variable to starting point
q = 1;
text="";
loadText= new LoadVars("");
loadText.load("text1.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function(success){
if (success){
//trace (success);
headingbox.html=true;
headingbox.htmltext=this.heading;
announcebox.html=true;
gotoandplay(2);
text=this.announce;
}
}
//stop the movie. wait for other commands
stop();

SlideTWO
//the typewriter:
if (q < text.length) {
announcebox.htmltext = this.text.substring(0, q);
q++
} else {
announcebox.htmltext = text;
gotoAndStop(1);
}

Slide THREE:
//loop back
gotoAndPlay(2);

This is something I found and it does what I want it to, but I need a quitting place for it.
This is what I attempted in the combined movie:

function playmovie(){
loadMovie("Typewriter-mine01.swf",_root);
}
setInterval(playmovie,"interval",10000);

Sorry to be so wordy.
Thanks,
Martie

Not The Usual Preloading Question
Using dreamweaver you can preload images so that they are cached for when you need to call on them.

Is there any way of doing it for swf's?

Flash Problem In IE - Not The Usual One.
I am new to the game here. I've created some pages that use a Flash video player. The user can click on a list of available videos (XML generated), and the video will load in the player and play.

Works fine in IE and Safari on Mac.

Works terrible in Firefox on Mac and Windows (seems to need to buffer for a long time before play starts - longer than the specified buffer time).

In IE for Windows - videos play fine and load fast. but - activating a video seems to "lock out" the rest of the page - rendering the ability to click through to other links not possible. Eventually, if i smash around enough, i can get a link to work - but its a terrible experience. This doesn't seem to be the "usual" Flash problem in IE (ie click to activate) - but I'm new - so this may be a related issue?

Help??? I don't even know where to begin.

address: http://64.38.28.254

thank you in advance.

Not The Usual Popup Window
Yes! Not the regular popup window with javascript, this window I need should be easy, very easy. But I donâ€™t know how to do it, of course Iâ€™m very new to Flash CS3 and Iâ€™m a rookie but I had searching and searching and everything just ends with a javascript or a swf file embedded in a html file.

I just want a button to make flash to popup a new window but NOT INTO A BROWSER. Yeah! Not a browser window just another flash instance, thatâ€™s it, a flash window not a browser window Â¿is it that possible?

thanks for your time

Edited: 06/08/2007 at 01:30:46 PM by CarlosBZ

Not Usual HitTest Question
I can understand why there is a delay in doing a hitTest action. If I say go to frame 3 if there is a HT, it will keep going there while something is in HT, but I want it to immediately perform some action and forget that it is in hitTest.

Can I quickly enable = false and then give the action, or is there some special MC.stopWorryingAboutHitTest function?

Popups From Within Flash (NOT THE USUAL QUESTION)
Hiya folks, in my portfolio site i have a flash movie and contained within it is a lot of little buttons, i want each of these buttons to open a seperate popup when clicked, the problem is that the basic tutorials i find everywhere r for if ur only usin one button per flash movie, or even only one button per webpage. I was also wondering how i could make the first popup close automatically when another button is pressed, or when another popup appears. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. -Ad

Using Flash and Dreamweaver MX

p.s. new to html coding, go easy on me.

if you want to see the flash file, here's the site so far:

http://www.freewebs.com/messymedia/HOME.htm

What Is The Usual Resolution Of Images Used In Flash?
I was wondering, seeing that images lose a lot of quality once applied to flash sites, is there a specific resolution that people usually use for their images destined to flash, partciulary if they're making an image gallery? Someone mentioned there's no point on working with images with a larger res than 45dpi (what? so low?).... and someone else said 72dpi is good enough. Any higher would be pointless, because it wouldn't help improve quality, and only causes very slow downloading of the site as the files are too large.

Is any of the above info accurate? If not, then what's your advice?

Not The Usual Visited State Question
Hi There, I totally get the setting up the Visited state for a button. Simple. But, I'd like to take it one step further. To Have the first 2 states "off" "over" and add "active" and finally "visited." setting up the "active" is simple enough but what I'd like to happen is when another button is clicked the previous button goes from "active" to "visited." Little more fun right?

I figure there needs to be some kind of "trace function" which is where I'm like duh?

thanks all!

Preloader Troubles - Not The Usual Jargon
Hey Guys,

I'm new to the forums so first of all, hey!

Now, I've got a whole web site built already with a preloader.

The site has a massive JPEG as the background because I publish it to full-screen. This JPEG remains on the first frame, because it's also the background of the preloader right. Now when the background is on the 1st frame, the page stays white forever when I simulate download, however if I move the jpeg to begin on the 3rd frame after the preloader stuff has finished, the website functions perfectly and the preloader works.

Any suggestions? Here's my preloading code.

FRAME 1

ActionScript Code:
loaded_bytes = Math.round(getBytesLoaded());
loaded_total = Math.round(getBytesTotal());
total_percent = loaded_bytes / loaded_total * 100;
loaded_text = Math.round(total_percent);

FRAME 2

ActionScript Code:
gotoAndPlay(1);

FRAME 3

ActionScript Code:
gotoAndPlay(4);

and ON my actual preloader which begins on Frame 1 I have:

ActionScript Code:
onClipEvent (enterFrame)
{
gotoAndStop(int(_parent.getBytesLoaded() * 100 / _parent.getBytesTotal()));
}

and at the end of the preloader on the 100th frame I have "_root.gotoAndPlay(3)"

Any suggestions?

Dynamic Content Not Working...not The Usual
Okay using Flash MX 2004 Pro

An .swf file called jo_bloggs.swf loads an external .swf file called jo_bloggs_audio.swf when a button is clicked using loadMovie. It also loads a text file called jobloggs.txt into 2 separate dynamic text fields. All the files reside in the same directory _flash within the main web site local structure.

_flash
jo_bloggs.swf
jo_bloggs_audio.swf
jobloggs.txt

Within Flash MX jo_bloggs.swf perviews fine and all the external files work and load in fine. View the jo_bloggs.swf using a flash player it still all works fine. Viewing the jo_bloggs.swf file from directly within a browser works just fine. However...

When I put the file into an .htm page within Dreamweaver MX 2004 none of the dynamic content loads?

If feel I am just missing SOMETHING simple but what I have no idea.

Help appreciated.

Thx
John

HTML In Flash (not The Usual Question)
OKay I know theres alot of questions about HTML in Flash but I did alot of looking through threads and could not find my answer.

OK. I have an HTML FORM that is a shopping cart system. It sends data to a server in order to place items in the cart. It also uses "HIDDEN" variables in the HTML form i.e.

Code:
input type="hidden" name="shipping method" value="UPS ground"
or something similar. As you can see, those hidden variables are important. That's how my shopping cart knows what (shipping method / size / color) people want. But I need to figure out a way to make a word in a sentence in a DYNAMIC TEXT BOX in Flash send many of these variables to the server, along with sending the user to the page that shows shopping cart contents.

Now I'm not asking for help with the cart, it works fine. What I need to know is how to send those variables through flash VIA a dynamic text box.

THANKS!

EMBED FONT (...not The Usual Probs Though)
I am currently working on a project combining html and flash. Every submenu in my menusystem (html) will load its own SWF. If i embed a font to one of the SWFs i would be happy if i didnt have to embed it to all the other swfs since this would generate alot of downloadingtime for the viewer.

Is there a way to cache an embedded font so that i can use it in seperate swfs...or does anyone have any other suggestions of how to do this?

//jocke, sweden

Strong Typing (not The Usual 'why' Thread)
So i did see the post about typing in the sticky above, but my question isnt as to why i should use it. I had heard that with as3 it was Required that you give a type to all your variables or it wouldn't compile. I have found this to be false which gave rise to my question. Did i just mishear it altogether or is there perhaps an option that can be switched so that the typing is required? This was born out or curiosity than anything else, any insight would be appreciated. thanks.

Creating Gradient, Not The Usual Kind
Is the gradient effect even possible to make in Flash/AS3?

If you think it is, just hint me how cause I can't figure it out.

Totalling Input Fields - Confused As Usual
Hi,

If someone out there could help with this problem I'd really appreciate it.

I've just finished a flash site which sells videos. It's not going to have a shopping cart as such because it's not a secure site, the user just sends in a cheque for the total amount instead.

The client wants the user to be able to type in the amount of videos they want in the first input field, then the price (per item) will come up in the next input field, then the total price (amount of videos x price per item) will come up in the next input field. There also has to be a grand total button at the bottom so the user knows how much they have to make the cheque out for.

There are about 10 different videos that are different prices, also depending on how many you buy. The more you buy the cheaper they are per item.

I have no idea how to even start doing this! So far I have managed to get the price per item to come up when you type in the quantity and push a button but as for getting the totals...it's just beyond me.

Please help! Thanks a lot!

Popups From Withis Flash (BUT NOT THE USUAL QUESTION)
Hiya folks, in my portfolio site i have a flash movie and contained within it is a lot of little buttons, i want each of these buttons to open a seperate popup when clicked, the problem is that the basic tutorials i find everywhere r for if ur only usin one button per flash movie, or even only one button per webpage. I was also wondering how i could make the first popup close automatically when another button is pressed, or when another popup appears. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. -Ad

Using Flash and Dreamweaver MX

p.s. new to html coding, go easy on me.

if you want to see the flash file, here's the site so far:

http://www.freewebs.com/messymedia/HOME.htm

Can Not See Flv Uploaded To A Usual Server In Progressive Download
Hi
Please someone
If i want "progressive download" from a web server do i need to set up some
special web server or the usual server where i upload usual html and swf
files is enough
Why i can not see my flv files after i uploaded to a usual server
Everithing works at the local mashine but as soon as i uploaded i can not
see the flv
please help

Changing CHECKBOX's Check Colour To Red From Usual BLACK.
Hi All,

I wanna change the checkbox check color to red from black. ...; There are some API's i found in the help like setStyle and symbolColor, but im not getting the exact way they need to be framed,. Can anyone explain me how i can change the black color of the check to red??

Thanks in advance!!

Regards
Roshan

A " " Linebreak Just Displays As In The String
Hi
i have a text field created at runtime like this :

Code:
function createChapterTitleTextBox(){

_level0.picTextsClip_mc.picButtonsInner.createTextField("picTexts_txt",1,-74,-20,150,0);
_level0.picTextsClip_mc.picButtonsInner.picTexts_txt.embedFonts = true;
_level0.picTextsClip_mc.picButtonsInner.picTexts_txt.text = "";
_level0.picTextsClip_mc.picButtonsInner.picTexts_txt.multiline = true;
_level0.picTextsClip_mc.picButtonsInner.picTexts_txt.wordWrap = true;
_level0.picTextsClip_mc.picButtonsInner.picTexts_txt.autoSize = "left";
_level0.picTextsClip_mc.picButtonsInner.picTexts_txt.textColor = 0x000000;
_level0.picTextsClip_mc.picButtonsInner.picTexts_txt.border = false;
_level0.picTextsClip_mc.picButtonsInner.picTexts_txt.borderColor = 0xF7F7F7;
_level0.picTextsClip_mc.picButtonsInner.picTexts_txt.background = false;
_level0.picTextsClip_mc.picButtonsInner.picTexts_txt.backgroundColor = 0xF7F7F7;
_level0.picTextsClip_mc.picButtonsInner.picTexts_txt.html = false;

picTextsText_Format = new TextFormat();
picTextsText_Format.rightMargin = 0;
picTextsText_Format.font = "verdana";
picTextsText_Format.size = 12;

_level0.picTextsClip_mc.picButtonsInner.picTexts_txt.setTextFormat(picTextsText_Format);
}

the text strings loaded into this field contain "
" to force a line break but it's not working - it just displays the
as part of the text string

can anyone tell me what i need to change to make this work ?

thanks

How To Have " " Parsed As A Linebreak (xml Data)
Hi,
I am reading xml data into a textfield that I created manually on the stage and I want to have all the "
" translate into a linebreak.
right now it prints it together with the text.

thanks in advance,
Miriam

Problem With Linebreak Character " "
hi every body,
i tried the code to print a string. when i directly declare a string with "
" character and trace the string there is a line break but when i get the same string from XML and trace it i dont see a line break but see"/n" itself . heres the code.
all i want is to change lines using "/n" character where i get the string from XML.please help soon...

Attach Code

// i have a XML file something like this. theres no problem with my XML file.i think so.
var myXML:XML =<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<marker title="a
b"/>

var tempStr:String = "a
b";
trace(tempStr); //output: a
b

tempStr = myXML.attribute("title");
trace(tempStr); //output : a
b

Like Usual (xml And Php "sendAndLoad")
Hello everybody!

I'm new in XML in flash and I don't understand why I can't save my xml object correctly into a file. I'm using a php server-side script I found on kirupa.com and it's not functionning. I try it online but nothing append...

Here is my code. I hope someone has the key!

Code:
for(i=0; i<10; i++){
var approcheXML = new XML();
approcheXML.contentType = "text/xml";
var node = approcheXML.createElement("char_"+i);
approcheXML.appendChild(node);
node = approcheXML.createElement("approche");
approcheXML.childNodes[i].appendChild(node);
node = approcheXML.createTextNode(approche);
approcheXML.childNodes[i].firstChild.appendChild(node);
node = approcheXML.createElement("startIndex");
approcheXML.childNodes[i].appendChild(node);
node = approcheXML.createTextNode(i);
approcheXML.childNodes[i].childNodes[1].appendChild(node);
node = approcheXML.createElement("endIndex");
approcheXML.childNodes[i].appendChild(node);
node = approcheXML.createTextNode(i);
approcheXML.childNodes[i].childNodes[2].appendChild(node);
}
approcheXML.sendAndLoad("xmlApprocheSave.php","approche.xml");
and the php script:

Code:
<?php
$filename = "approche.xml";
$raw_xml = file_get_contents("php://input");

print $raw_xml;

$fp = fopen($filename, "w");
fwrite($fp, $raw_xml);
fclose($fp);
?>
thank you !!!