Flash :: Retaining Format Of Loaded HTML Docs

Loaded SWF Not Retaining It's Background Color
Hello,

I am working on a viewer that loads SWF's into a movieclip via an XML file and navigation. It's nothing fancy. But I have one particularly complex SWF that is giving me problems. This SWF has a light gray background color on the stage. When I load it, it completely ignores that background color and instead shows transparent. Can someone please help me understand why it would do this and how I go about fixing it?

This is all I'm doing to load the SWF:

Code:
// create a new loader for the slide
slideLoader = new Loader();
// load the next slide
slideLoader.load(new URLRequest(xmlSlideshow..slide[intCurrentSlide].@src));

currentContainer.addChild(slideLoader);
I'll spare all the the other setup code. currentContainer is a reference to my movieclip.

Thanks in advance.

Retaining Name Value Associations From Loaded Txt File
I'm trying to loop through the properties of a loadVars object and place them in an array. I would like to build an array of objects that store the name of the variables in the text file as well as the values.

Im doing this so that i can keep track of which variables to replace with new data once the user writes a new text file with my Zinc program.

Loading Html Docs Into A Swf
is it possible to pull html files (text and pics) into a swf?
thanks in advance for any tips!

Loading Html Docs Into Flash...
Real quick and easy like... I have loaded a(quasi) html doc into my flash movie to take advantage of the ease of updating info. Pretty straight forward. But, I wanted to use a bulleted list, which I have seen done before with html in flash. so I used the <ul> & <li> tags and the doc worked in IE as a list. agian, pretty straight forward. But then when I load it into flash, it's like it doesn't even see the tags. It sees all other ones (Such as bold, Italics, and so on) but not these ones. It just ignores them.

So my question is: Is there something that I have to do to flash to make it recognize them?

I loaded the doc using the load variable command and a text box, if that matters.

Thanks, DS

PS: While we're on the subject, anybody have any idea if it's possible to load html pages with graphics in them into Flash? That would be great, and is next on my list if I can figure this one out!

Thanks

Text Hyperlinks To Html Docs.
I would like to create text links in flash to external sites that open a new browser window. I would also like to create links that open up a mail window. I have tried using the "URL" field in the character window but it doesn't seem to work once I open it up in a browser. It puts the little dotted line under the text in flash but nothing happens in the browser. Any advice?

Thanks again oh knowledgable ones.
spud

Passing Variables Between Swf's In Different Html Docs
I am trying to build a navigation swf that will receive a variable (from the calling page) and do something (change the color of an object) based on the value of the passed variable.

So, I have Home.html containing "Menu.swf"

When the user clicks on the "Examples" button in Menu.swf, I need to load Examples.html (also containing Menu.swf) and pass Menu.swf (in "Examples.html") a variable.

I have spent ages playing with LoadVars.send, LoadVars.sendandLoad, etc, but can't get it to work.

My last effort was:

In sending swf
on (release) {
myTXData = new LoadVars();
myTXData.strCurentLocation="Examples";
myTXData.sendAndLoad("MenuTest/Examples.html","myRXData", "GET");
}

In receiving swf
myRXData = new LoadVars();

The more I read about this and try it, the more i think it's not possible. I would like reading and writing variables to text files

Can anyone help out here?

Thanks

Mark

Loading HTML Docs From MC To Mainstage
Hullo, first time on the forums, i noticed some other posts/responses were quite friendly and thought i'd sign up. I really need some help, i'm getting pretty desperate now and its driving me insane...

I have a text area that loads a HTML document, which works great, but i wanted to be able to change the content when the user clicks on a menu item, for example i click on 'gallery' and it'll load another HTML document for the Gallery page into the text area i've created.

This is what i was using on my menu items to load new content to the specified text area -

Code:
on (press) {
function loadArticle() {
myVars.load("File02.htm");
}
loadArticle();
}
And it works!! When the button is on the mainstage that is...

Problem is my menu system is contained inside a Movie clip, and it stops working. Works perfectly fine on the mainstage, but not when inside an MC. Which i think means i have to target the main timeline with the _root. property but i'm not sure where and educated guesses havent got me anywhere...

I've tried this code:

Code:
on (press) {
function loadArticle() {
myVars.load("File02.htm");
}
_root.loadArticle();
}
Assuming it would load the file to the mainstage... But it hasnt worked.

This is the original code that sits in the first frame of my document on the main stage. Its not so relevent for this problem but i thought i should post it...

Code:
textBox.html = true;
var format = new TextField.StyleSheet();
var path = "flash.css";
var myVars:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
myVars.onData = function(myStr:String):Void {
if (myStr != undefined) {
var quick = myStr;
format.load(path);
format.onLoad = function(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
textBox.styleSheet = format;
textBox.text = myStr;
} else {
textBox.text = "Error loading CSS file!";
}
};
} else {
trace("Unable to load text file.");
}
};
function loadArticle() {
myVars.load("File01.htm");
}
loadArticle();

I'm really stuck with this and its been driving me crazy. If anyone can help at all i'd be really appreciative, i know it has to be something relatively simple considering it loads the HTML docs fine when the buttons are on the mainstage, but its completely defeated me and i could do with some help..

Any help is really appreciated, thanks to everyone who reads this far...

- Anthony

Loading Html Text Docs
I'm trying to load up an html based text doc using the loadvarnum command. When I test it stand-alone, it works great. When I load that clip (swf - level 3) into my main file (again a swf-_root) I get a big ol blank. I know I'm just n ot calling out the correct path. here;s more info;

Main clip (this has a creatmovieclip (level3)) for the level I'm loading the txt based html doc into.

ON the level 3 clip ( level3.swf) I'm trying to load these txt based html docs. When I test solely with this level (playing level3.swf within the player) I get everything working.

I'm trying to call these docs after my level3.swf has loaded into the main.swf file.

Could really use the help..

Linking Dynamic Text Boxes To HTML Docs?
I'm still not sure how to link Dynamic text boxes to HTML documents, even after reading many articles on Dynamic text in Flash MX. Can anyone help or point me to the code, if any.

bigjake

Problem Sharing A SharedObject Between Two Different Movies In Separate HTML Docs
Hi ppl,

I'm trying to "flush" data from movie 1 and then read that data in movie 2 which is loacted in a new html file which movie 1 opens. When I test it with only the swf's it works just fine but as soon as I embed the movies in html pages it doesn't work. Has any one ever experienced anything like this? is there any knows solution to this problem?

Cheers,

McMurphy

Retaining Order Of Files Loaded Externally From Large XML Files
Hi everyone,
I was messing around with some old examples, and I ran into an unfinished example where several 30k-100k XML files are loaded and stored as a string into an Array. The code looks basically like:

Code:
//example input: foo.xml%zeeb.xml%blarg.xml
function loadXML(filePaths:String) {
filesArray = filePaths.split('%');
for (var i:Number = 0; i<filesArray.length; i++) {
var xmlData:XML = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
//order of files loaded is messed up here!
parseXMLData(this, filesArray.length);
} else {
//trace(filesArray[1]+" failed to load!");
}
};
xmlData.load(filesArray[i]);
}
}
Basically, when I trace the 'this', the order of the files that are loaded is off. Out of about 10 tries, about 3 times the order is perfect. The remaining 7 times, the order is a bit off. Does anybody have a suggestion on how to ensure the files are loaded prior to the next file being loaded?

I tried placing a while loop that basically delays the clock for a few milliseconds, and that didn't work either. Besides, that is not really a good solution to arbitrarily waste clock cycles. I am guessing some sort of a listener might be needed, but that is where I've hit a wall

Thanks!
Kirupa

Html Format When Reading An Html File With Loadvariables()
hello,

i'm using the loadvariables() to display a text include in an html file.
I activated the "html render" in the properties of the dynamic text field.
My question is:
how may i display accents ?
actually, when i have an accent in my html text, it displays a rectangle instead.
if someone may help me, i'll be great.
thanks in advance.

3nityy

Format Dynamically Loaded Text
Hi there,

I want to format my dynamically loaded text like this:

text <a space here> more text
text <a space here> more text
text <a space here> more text

basically I want to 'tab' the text to align it in a text box.

I use HTML in my text file, but can't think of a way of creating this 'tab' or spacing format.

any ideas gurus?

Format Text Loaded From XML File
Hello all,

The text for my website is loaded from an external XML file which obviously makes editing the content of the website easy.

However, I can't find a way to format the text that I load.

In Flash, I would usualy use HTML tags ( text and so on ) but these tags don't work from an XML file.

Does anybody know whether it is possible to format text loaded from an XML file? The main thing that I want to be able to do is insert 'line breaks' as at the moment all of my text is in one big block.

Thanks as always for any help,

David

Xml In Html Format
Hi guys ,
I got a quetions for u, i have a dynamic textfield which get the text from an xml file (the text is an attribute in xml file) and i want the text to be able to display in html format bcoz i have some links in the text so that the user can click on the link in the textfield.Any idea how to do this ? please let me know .
thanks for your time
Chinna

How Do I Format This As Html?
Code:

this.newstext = newsDate+" "+newsSubject+" "+newsBody;

I tried doing:
Code:

this.newstext = ""newsDate+" "+newsSubject+" "+newsBody;

and it returns a syntax error, so what am I doing wrong then? Thanks.
-ronnie

[F8] Format Loaded Image Inside MC To Specified Dimensions
Hello
I am making an ad that will be loading images from a server. The images will be different in size and proportion but I want them do be displayed as if they had the same. I always want too se 100% of the image width, the height can be cut.

The image is loaded directly into a movie clip. As you can see here, I have put the movie clip holder inside another movie clip. Im not sure at all that this is the way to go. I tried without that extra movie clip to but I cant get the _width and _height assigns to work in a way that I understand.

bildurlTemp="http://tekla.ing.umu.se/~el00dsm/1.jpg";mcImageTop.mcImage.loadMovie(bildurlTemp);
mcImageTop._width=100;
mcImageTop._height=50;

Format Dynamic Loaded Text Problem
This is my problem... I want to be able to load a paragraph of text dynamically into a text box, I can do that. This is the problem, when I load the text into the text box it gets croped by the size of the text box you create. so if I have the paragraph below...

"Hello, this is just a sample
of what Im talking about.
The text always gets cut
off inside the text box"

and I want to load it in a text box dynamically it always clips it like this...

+-----------------------------------------+
| Hello, this is just a sample
| of what im talking about.
+-----------------------------------------+

But I want it to do this...

+-----------------------------------------+
| Hello, this is just a sample
| of what im talking about.
| The text always gets cut
| off inside the text box
+-----------------------------------------+

is there any way I can load a chunk of text into a text field and have it GROW vertically WITHOUT SCROLL BARS ( that I know how to do) I need the text to do this because Im using a component that will allow me to customize the scroll bars and background.

AppendText In HTML Format?
I am working on an AIR app and I am almost there...I have a simple sql query sending back data via a SELECT, I can trace the results and I can feed them to a TextArea. What I want to do is format that textArea as HTML.

when I set the TextArea.htmlText attribute it deletes my return...

So what I need to do is append the results as html formatted text in the TextArea.

Is it possibe, and if not, what other options do I have.
Thanks in advance.

Help With Understanding Html Format In Actionscripting
Hey all,

I've got some issues with some actionscripting code. This is what it is basically: I've got a dynamic textbox that takes some XML data as input. This portion works just fine.

The part I'm having trouble with is implementing a URL portion of it. I'm doing it to where the user clicks on the link and it contacts an ASP page (RETURNEDLINK.ASP) and sends one variable (linkid).

I guess I'm having trouble knowing the proper syntax for all the code within the actionscript. (ie. 's, ='s, etc.)

Here is the code portion that I'm trying to implement:

Code:
EditLinkBox.xml_content +=
"<a href="RETURNEDITLINK.asp?link_id ="" + linkid + ">
 
Link ID:"+linkid+" 
. . .
Last Modified: "+linklastmodified+"</a> ";

Here is the working portion before I tried to implement the 'URL' portion:

Code:
EditLinkBox.xml_content +=
"Link ID:"+linkid+" 
. . .
Last Modified: "+linklastmodified+" ";

So can anyone offer any suggestions as to how to fix the first section of code, or better yet, help me find some kind of specifications for how to use the actionscript.

Thanks a lot!

Load A Txt Or Html Format File
According to my test
loadMovieNum Action can only load a movie(swf).

Can I load a txt or html format file on a swf file?

HTML Text Format “quotes”
Dynamic Text: HTML Text formatting: HTML Tags

To get the right quotation marks “example” I have been using the follo. HTML tags:
“ (opening quote)
” (closing quote)

They worked beautifully in Flash 5. But in MX, the same tags give me an O.
I cannot use the inch marks "example".

Can someone pls help me with this problem?

“example” --- right
"example" --- wrong

Thanks

HTML Format Stops Scrolling
Hi,

I use a separate txt file to load it into the dynamic textbox.

What is funny, when I apply several HTML format code for the unicode txt file headers (like changing font color: Kapcsolat:</font ), the scroll will stop at the second header, where it finds a html formatting.

If I delete the html format code, it works well.

Why?

Loading An Html File With Css To Format
hello this has been bugging me for a while now i was wondering if any one can help me, i'll try and explain it the best i can...

i am trying to load in an html (will be a php file once its up on the server but just for ease its an html file) the use a css file to format it. the code i has is as follows :

var CSSformat = new TextField.StyleSheet();
var CSSpath = "home.css";
format.load(CSSpath);
format.onLoad = function(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
home_mc.home_txt.styleSheet = CSSformat;
home_mc.home_txt.htmlText = loadHTML();
} else {
home_mc.home_txt.htmlText = "unable to load css file.";
}
};

function loadHTML() {
var home_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
home_lv.load("home.html");
home_lv.onData = function(home:String) {
if (home != undefined) {
return home;
} else {
return "unable to load html file.";
}
};
};

i have a feeling it may because i'm loading the html after i've loaded the css but ive tried it other ways and it doesn't seem to work either so this was a last resort.

i have also tried: home_lv.onLoad = function(home:Boolean) etc.
but that didn't work...

sorry this is such a long post but i'm pretty stuck, i can't seem to see the wood for the trees (so to speak).

thanks in advance
Al

Passing HTML Format Variables To XML
Hi, I need to pass variables from an event of a mouse over a button.

declaring:

on(rollOver) {myUrl="folder/name.htm";}

and inside an animated graphic, I have a text component, loading XML data that I pretend to pick up from the rollover state and declaring that Variable.

[code]
//xml stuff
descriptionHTML = new XML();
descriptionHTML.load(myUrl); <-----// this format states to be: descriptionHTML.load("url.htm") as in a single format htm file. I need it to be a variable which value gets from the mouseover.
descriptionHTML.onLoad = function () {
htmlContainer.text = descriptionHTML;
}

Is there anyway to assign a XML variable url?

Encoding String In HTML Format
Ok, say I have a string such as "hey, how are you doing?" When it passes it to the website.php?text=string, i need it to encode it so its written as website.php?text=hey%42%20how%20are%20you%20doing% 33, how would I go about doing that using a flash command?

Html Format In Input Field ?
Hi all,

Can anyone help please !
I have an input field of a flash form to send mail, works fine...
however in the mail i receive (or even when i just trace the value inside flash)
I get something like:

<TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2">InputValue</TEXTFORMAT>

instead of just : InputValue

if i do this published in flash 6 < it works.
So i'ts probebley soem "geat" feature in flash 8 how can i get just the value though to send along in the form.

thanx, i.a.
M

Using Html To Format A TextArea Component With XML
I'm using a TextArea component, html set to true, and am loading the text from an external xml file. I'm using CDATA in the XML file, and html tags that Flash recognizes, but the text in the component is not recognizing the tags. (They display as , etc.).

I've been going around and around on this. How can I format the XML text (without using style sheets). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Dynamic Text In HTML Format
I have loaded dynamic text into a flash file that has been formated with some HTML. When I preview the text in flash it looks great. My bold tags are bold and so forth...

Here is my problem! When I load the flash movie into another flash file the dynamic text is not visible. I can select and copy the text but for some reason it's not visible. HELP!!!

Oh also, for some reason ever time there is a period (.) my text breaks the next line...

Read XML Node And Format As HTML-possible?
Hi everyone. Is it possible to read a child of an XML file and format it as HTML in flash? I'm asking this because I want to include a description text as a child of a node and I need to know if there is a way to insert a line brake in the text...

Sending Mail In Html Format
Hi all,

I have a typical php contact form that works perfectly sending text based email to the receiver. I wish to, however, step it up and instead of sending the raw text i want to send them as a html mail so i can include images and just make it look better than plain text.

e.g. when the user receives the mail they can have a image based header with the info layed out nicely with css (borders, bg color etc...).

Thanks for any help,

Regards,

jerome

PUBLISHING FLASH IN HTML FORMAT

Hi,

I have a website in html format. I just want to change the first page into flash. I did the animation. it works on my C drive but when I upload to internet it takes ages to open(actually it never opened I couldnt wait that long).

should I change any publishing settings or there is something wrong with the hosting?

thank you.

How Do I Read In A HTML File And Format With A CSS
I want to read in a HTML file and format with a CSS file.
I'm using MX2004.
From what I've read, this should be possible?

I'm getting stuck at the first obstacle, I can't figure out how to read in the HTML file.
THe use of the CSS styling seems to be straight forward.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

OM

Run Time: Pass Link Var [html Format] To Txt Box
Greetings,

I have a text box with var equal to "link"
I have a push buttom with click handler "link01"

When the push buttom is clicked, "linko01" handles as follows:

Code:
//link #01
link01 = function()
{
links = " VB.Net Developers Resource Centre" +newLine+ "http://www.mvps.org/vbnet/" +newLine+ " VBnet provides Intermediate and Advanced Win32 API code for VB developers. Comprehensive Code, FAQ, Developers Resources, News, alphabetical API/Type/Constant/Method Index, along with the largest Visual Basic-related links list on the net."
}
The problem is, however, that i cannot get the URL to appear as a link that opens...opens on a second page.

If i try the traditional html formatting, <a href=>, the link is not displayed, nor does it function correctly.

Could anyone please help me with the syntax?

Thank you

Dynamic Txt HTML Format In Spanish Problem
Hi , i have to load an external txt into a txt field with HTML format, but like you know i have to do some words with accent like había , tenía , names like García etc , and i dont know how to do it , ive tried with é for example for the "é" but it seems to be not reconized, so , if you know, pleas tedll me.
thanks

What HTML Editor Do You Use To Format Your Flash Text?
I kinda asked this before and it was suggested that I use notepad for formatting my HTML before loading it into Flash MX.

I'd like to use an editor that I can preview the formatting with before I export it as a .txt file for Flash.

Can anyone suggest anything?

thanks,
David

Format Dynamic Text Field To HTML ?
Hi all,

cant seem to format my actionscript created text field....
here is my code
=============================
this.createTextField("warningText",10,-97,-50,175,90);
warningText.html = true;
warningText.text = " Assistance ";
=============================

Am trying to have the text say "Assistance" and make it underlined aswell.

At the moment the HTML tags are displayed too - "Assistance"

??

Thanks in advance

gilesb

Mysql (-> Php?) -> Xml (html Format) -> Flash News
i'm posting this in 3 forums as i'm not sure where it is best.

i've been searching all over the place and have googled till my brain hurt. no one seems to know of a tutorial or example files for this sort of news system. what i really want is to have a mysql database of news which is fed to flash through xml. anyone know where i can find one, or willing to meet on irc to explain to me a bit about theirs?

thanks very much

Loading HTML Format Into Dynamic Textbox
Hi guys,

anyone knows how to load html format, ie a table into a dynamic textbox?
is it possible?

External Text File, Can I Format For Html?
I am loading text into dynamic text fields from an external text file. How/or can I format some of the text in the text file into html so that I can create hyperlinks?

I have noticed the render text as html option???

Using MX

Changing XML Format To Accept HTML Tags
I've inherited an old project from someone. It's a slide show that loads an XML file that contains all the slide info (image, audio, caption, etc.).

The problem is that the image captions now need to contain HTML formatting codes (i,b,u) and the way the XML file was structured doesn't allow for this. The developer used attributes for this information, as in:

<image path="99928009_01.jpg" title="Camaro" caption="A hot car makes a comeback" audio="99928009_01.mp3"/>

I'm assuming I need more like

<image path="99928009_01.jpg" title="Camaro" audio="99928009_01.mp3">
<caption><![CDATA[A hot car makes a comeback]></caption>
</image>

Correct?

If so, how can I easily modify the code to now look for the new "caption" child node? The developer currently has:

var imageNode = root.lastChild;
var s=0;
while (imageNode.nodeName != null) {
imageData = new Object;
var str:String = imageNode.attributes.path;
tar = str.split(".");
ttxt = tar[0]+"_thm."+tar[1];
imageData.t = thumbpath+ttxt;
imageData.audio = audiopath+imageNode.attributes.audio;
imageData.path = imagepath+imageNode.attributes.path;
trace(imageData.path);
imageData.title = imageNode.attributes.title;
if (imageData.title==null){
imageData.title="";
}
imageData.caption = imageNode.attributes.caption;
if (imageData.caption==null){
imageData.caption="";
}
imageArray[s]=imageData;
imageNode = imageNode.previousSibling;
s++
}
...more...

I basically understand what he did here, loop through all the lastChild nodes and extract the attributes. But the XML example above makes <caption> the lastchild, so how do I loop and get the attributes from <image> AND the contents of <caption> and keep them associated??

If this was E4X, I'd have no problem but the older method of dealing with XML always puzzled me a bit.

Thanks.