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Bug In Flash 8 When Using Strings Panel?
A problem with the strings panel in Flash 8 I have found is that, when working with 6 languages, if you save and close down your Flash file with the Strings panel hidden, and re-open the FLA and then view the strings panel/view your text on the stage (or open the xml file) that, in my cae, some EN strings have been corrupted/mutated to other languages.

This is obviously a bug in Flash which corrupts one of the XML files if the strings panel is closed. Why does it do this? Its very annoying having to remember to open the strings panel whenever I load that specific project, even if I am not going to use it. And the panel takes up a lot of space as it is so can't leave it open all the time for other projects.

Any ideas?

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Strings Panel Problems
Here is my problem. I’m a bit of a newbie so please be patient.

I currently have 3 different swf files that all load into a projector (a menu, content, and a header). the projector is acting only as a container for the content, loaded with mx 2004's new behaviors.

The 3 swfs all contain dynamic text boxes set up for multilingual text using the strings panel (5 languages - English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Chinese – English being the default language).

The problem is, sometimes the dynamic content does not load. I know the swf is loading because the static elements appear. in fact, the dynamic content will appear at startup, and then quickly disappear. (all the files have stop actions on them by the way.)

When i reorder the behaviors, different dynamic elements stop working. there's always one of the three that's misbehaving.

Someone please help me.
Thank you in advance.

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Strings Panel, Locale And Wiring It Up
My brain probably is wired differently than Adobe's / Macromedia's, because I really don't get it.

I'm trying to use the strings panel to get Flash to substitute international texts. Rudementary this works. However my working mode is just a tad different that the three available in Flash: I want to use the default determined language but be able to override it later on (some users have their language set wrongly on their computer... e.g. me).

First what I don't get: why can't I just set the active language in the "automatically at runtime" mode? Flash knows the textfields, its knows the translation table... Just set that language and have flash update all fields... Why not?

Ok then, to the actionscript approach (in the first frame):

Locale.autoReplace = true;
Locale.initialize(); // initialize according to system language
Locale.addDelayedInstance(mainmenu_concepts_txt, "IDS_MENU_CONCEPTS");
Locale.addDelayedInstance(mainmenu_collection_txt, "IDS_MENU_COLLECTION");
... // more addDelayedInstance
language_en_btn.onRelease = function()
{
Locale.loadLanguageXML("en");
}
language_de_btn.onRelease = function()
{
Locale.loadLanguageXML("de");
}

<Grumble>Why do I need to code out the links between the translationtable and the textfields? Flash knows this already.</Grumble>

Ok. Well, let's test that...
Comes up with English... Ok...
Click German.. Yes! All fields in German!
Click English... Yessss...
Click German... HEY!!!! Still English? WTF? Click again. Noooo, not English, GERMAN!

Turns out the replace only occurs on the first load of a language.

Now, either I simply don't get it, or I simply don't get it. Do I really need to write this international stuff myself? I can, you know. ;-)

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Formating Text In Strings Panel (MX 2004)
I have just downloaded MX 2004 Trial and I wonder how I can use the Strings panel... I think i have understand the fundamental thing about it but I wonder how I can format (ex: BOLD) different parts of a text string, when I use the new Strings panel!?

I have tried to make html-tags (ex: nonBoldText <B> myBoldText </B> nonBoldText ) in the text, both thru the Stringspanel and directly in the xml-file that Flash creates... If you try to select corresponding (a part of a text) text on the stage and choose B (Bold) in the properties panel...

thanx
/bnet

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Strings Panel - Lost Line Breaks. HELP
Dear all,

I have been trying to use the strings panel in MX prof, 2004 (now upgraded to 7.2).

Apart from poor stability causing text to disappear - which is why I have upgraded to 7.2 (although have not proved this has answered all the stability problems yet, anyone?)

Of most concern is that when I have lovingly formatted the dynamic text boxes, the use of the panel is removing line breaks as and when it chooses. Is this a bug or does it require scripting.

Would very much appreciate any suggestions as this part of the software is causing nightmares. - No one in macromedia's forum could be bother to answer after days and days.

Regards

Steve

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Flash CS3 Strings Panel : Error 1009
I've created a very simple Actionscript 3 FLA with the Strings Panel setting at "Automatically at Runtime" and just one language - English.

Keyframe at Frame 1: Dynamic textbox linked to a Strings Panel ID.

Keyframe at Frame 15: Another Dynamic textbox linked to another Strings Panel ID.

Compiling this setup produces the following error:

quote:TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at StringsPanelNotWorking_fla::MainTimeline/StringsPanelNotWorking_fla::frame15()

If I change the Publish Settings -> Actionscript version to 2.0, the same file compiles and runs without errors.

I've got no code on any frames. So this means there is a problem with the dynamically generated code at runtime. Could someone tell me why such a simple thing is not working in Actionscript 3.

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Strings Panel Autoselecting Leading Problems
I have a couple of dynamic text fields containing RETURN (charCode 13).
They work fine when the Strings panel is set to "manual using stage language", but when I switch to "automatically at runtime" the leading seems to double. I use Flash 8 and flash player 8.
After searching all the Flash 8 litterature available on the Adobe site, checking for autoinserted characters, and a number of non-scientific trial-and-errors, I'm stuck.
The obvious work-around would be to publish each language version separately, but all software demos I'm to produce would benefit greatly from the auto-language feature.

Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong?

Wille

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Flash CS3 Strings Panel : Error 1009
I've created a very simple Actionscript 3 FLA with the Strings Panel setting at "Automatically at Runtime" and just one language - English.

Keyframe at Frame 1: Dynamic textbox linked to a Strings Panel ID.

Keyframe at Frame 15: Another Dynamic textbox linked to another Strings Panel ID.

Compiling this setup produces the following error:

Code:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at StringsPanelNotWorking_fla::MainTimeline/StringsPanelNotWorking_fla::frame15()

If I change the Publish Settings -> Actionscript version to 2.0, the same file compiles and runs without errors.

I've got no code on any frames. So this means there is a problem with the dynamically generated code at runtime. Could someone tell me why such a simple thing is not working in Actionscript 3.

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Flash Strings Panel Error Message
Hi all.
I'm using the Flash Strings Panel in multi-language project. I've ignored this message until now, but i think that is not normal.

Every time I open the main FLA, Flash displays this message:

The Strings Panel may not work properly for the document without the following file(s):
..DEV_Deployenmain_en.xml
..DEV_Deployitmain_it.xml
..DEV_Deploy
umain_ru.xml

All is working perfectly, but every time I open the file i see this message.

I've used in the last years Flash MX 2004, Flash 8 and now i'm using Flash Cs3. All version show this message.

Any suggestion/comment?

Thanks to all

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Strings Panel Tutorial For English Spanish Flash Website
Greetings everyone,

where can i find a good strings panel for multiple language flash website set up?

thanks in advance!!

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Strings Panel Deleting Text + Removing Line Breaks
Does any one have a solution to the strings panel deleting text when using it for multilanguages? (I have tried the 7.2 upgrade. It still is not stable.)

Also it is removing the returns (line breaks) from my lovely formatted dynamic text boxes. Something a client won't put up with. Any solutions to this?

regards

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"strings Panel" Problem
Here is my problem. I’m a bit of a newbie so please be patient.

I currently have 3 different swf files that all load into a projector (a menu, content, and a header). the projector is acting only as a container for the content, loaded with mx 2004's new behaviors.

The 3 swfs all contain dynamic text boxes set up for multilingual text using the strings panel (5 languages - English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Chinese – English being the default language).

The problem is, sometimes the dynamic content does not load. I know the swf is loading because the static elements appear. in fact, the dynamic content will appear at startup, and then quickly disappear. (all the files have stop actions on them by the way.)

When i reorder the behaviors, different dynamic elements stop working. there's always one of the three that's misbehaving.

Someone please help me.
Thank you in advance.

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Prob With Comparing Utf-8 Enc Loaded Strings With Other Strings
I load a bunch of strings from a MySQL database. Those strings have been utf-8 encoded before being put there. When I load one of the strings and compare with a string defined inside flash it works great as long as the string doesnt have more than one word. Two words or more doesnt work.

So loaded string "Oil and vinegar" isn't equal to the internally set string "Oil in vinegar" according to flash, although it is utf-8 encoded in the database...

blablabla load string "Oil and vinegar" from db into var words

if (words == "Oil and vinegar") { blablabla }
but this condition never evaluates as true....

What am I doing wrong?

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Answer Panel Add-on Without Touching The System Of The Andser Panel Check It Out
Hi all!
I have created a add on for the Answer Panel!
This system is working like this:
I have made the menu and stuff, but when you select on the combo box "Answer", theres the code loadmovie and it laods the Answer Panel (like before)!

This add-on WILL NOT DAMAGE OR CREATE CHANGEMENTS on the system of the Answer panel
what's on the add-on:
music
game of the month (there currently bugs to fix)
later they will be more stuff!
(There are no update like the Answer panel)

Get it:
http://www.geocities.com/matrixplayer2000/do.html
(you must extract these files on the Answer panel folder of Flash MX (if you have Flash MX open, it will need a restart)
file discription:
ans.swf (Answer Panel)
Answer.swf (add-on)
an.exe (Because I can't make it to go back it will lunch this pop-up window)

NOTE: you can't run the ans.swf like this, but it must be in Flash MX Answer panel to see it. (I did NOT change it)
It's just working like this! and used to work like this!

GET the source code:
http://www.geocities.com/matrixplayer2000/do.html

===============================
Bug report and To-Do:
- Create game
- Make that it scale (like the answer panel)
- Fix for some the music speed (that is only me that can do that!(I just need to change the qulity higher and transform it into a .swf)
===============================
bye and enjoy!
[Edited by asdfghjklzxcvbnm on 07-23-2002 at 07:13 AM]

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Flex Controlling Items In Panel A From Panel B [Flex3/AS3]
Hi all,

Currently I am working on a project that seems a bit daunting to someone that's quite new to Flex 3 and the Flex Builder 3. I'm trying to create a Build Your Jacket app that will allow the user to create a "Letterman Jacket" with logos and text of their choice ( something a bit similar to Spreadshirt.com ).

At the moment I'm trying to work out how to have 2 Panels communicate with each other.

So say for example:
In Panel B I have a Text field where someone can type one line of text. When they type into the field, I'd like it to appear in Panel A and allow the user to manipulate that in Panel A.

If someone has an example of this in Flex 3 or AS3 form, then that would be great! But if not, then I'm really looking for some direction on things I can look up and focus on in order to accomplish this.

Thanks guys.

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Panel Layout Question (panel Sets)
I have never been able to get the Library to stay part of my custom panel layout. I run dual monitors and all my other panels (actions, colors, ect...) are on the second monitor and open fine in their respective places, but not the Library. I have to always hit F11 to open it and then resize it, drives me crazy! **I don't want to 'dock' the windows because it puts them below each other and I don't need that. I want them next to each other and all half the size of my monitor. It makes for a very nice workspace with all the tools on 1 monitor and the entire stage and timeline on the other.
As far as I know there is no way to dock panels next to each other as opposed to vertically. Just something that has bothered me for oh, around 3 years now! Any suggestions?????

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Strings
if i have a varible set like this:
textstring = "Hello";
and would like to check the first letter of that variable you would do something like this in C:
if (textstring[0] == H) {}
how do you do this with actionscripting in flash?
What I really want to do is something like this:
somevariable = textstring[x];

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Help With Strings
Hello Flashers,
Does anyone know a way to analyze the contents of a string, and if the string contains ONLY spaces, set a boolean like *********=true?

something like:
theString.length=stringLength;
for(count=0; count<stringLength; count++)
{
// the part im not sure how to do goes here
}

~dev

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Strings To Int
im loading variables input1, input2, and input3 from a text file and tried to put them into output1 or output2 but for some reason it doesn't work, it displays NaN which is basically stating that it is a full string. however input1 is being filled with 32 or some other numerical value.
input1, input2, and input3 load up ok.however, apparently as strings.
loadVariables("vars.txt","");
//set (output2,input2);
output1 = input1;
output1 = parseInt (output1);

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AS And Strings
Hello,

I was wondering...

what can ActionScript allow me to do with string manipulation.
for example:
I want to check if the string is = "".
And
I want to check if the string contains certain characters.

I was hoping i could do this with ActionScript instead of having to pass it back and forth from an outside script.

Thanks for your help.
slobby

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Strings Not Getting Set
I have an ASP script which looks at a database and then writes back to Flash MX what the value of the variable is. Here is a tid-bit:

If Not oRs.BOF Then oRs.MoveFirst
oRs.Filter = "PageName='Market2'"
If oRs("PageTitle") <> "null" Then
Response.Write "&marketTwo=" & oRs("PageTitle")
End If

This goes on and on and work really well.
My problem is that Flash MX is not setting the variables correctly.

I declare all variables:

var configuring = "true";
txtLoadStatus = "Configuring site..."
marketOne = "null";
marketTwo = "null";
marketThree = "null";
marketFour = "null";
prodservOne = "null";
prodservTwo = "null";
prodservThree = "null";
prodservFour = "null";

Then request the variables to be changed:

loadVariablesNum("ndtech.asp?command=setup_nav",0, "POST");

Only the variables that have a value other than "null" are written in this ASP page. Those variables, do not change.

Can anyone help??

Thanks,
AP

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Help W/ Strings
can someone please explain to me in detail the significant difference between substr() and substring()?
possibly demonstate some good examples of both?
thanks in advance.

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Please, No Strings
Hey Guys,
Bellow is a global variable. Im having a hard time because i need the variable value to not be a string so that i can use the data in more ways. Its giving me hard time as it comes out of the XML Doc in a string format.
HELP!
_global.p1ttx = xmlDoc_xml.firstChild.childNodes[3+px].childNodes[1].attributes.x;

Thanks,

ND

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Strings
I want to make a function that calculates and displays in mm:ss format the time passed from the beginning of the movie. i found the function-call to get the time passed (getTimer) but i have no idea on formatting. i tried the following, but it did not work. This is supposed to be a part of a preloader.

code: tpass=int(getTimer()/1000);
tmin=(int(tpass/60))
if (tmin.length==1) {tmin="0" + tmin}
tsec=(tpass-(tmin*60));
if (tsec.length==1) {tsec="0" + tsec}
ftime=tmin + ":" + tsec

If you need help this is what it does:
>the first line gets the number of seconds in seconds (not miliseconds)
>the second line gets the number of minutes
>the third line is supposed to add a '0' if the minute is smaller than 10 (i.e. use 09 instead of 9)
>the fourth line gets the number of seconds
>the fifth line is supposed to add a '0' if the second is smaller than 10 (i.e. use 03 instead of 3)

Thank you for the time

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XML And Strings
Using Flash MX

How can I perform string functions of xml node data?
Are node data set as read only variables?

If so how then can I make nade data available for manipulation?

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Strings
How do I search a string for a certain word or combination?
Example:
input = "Once upon a time"
And I want to search input for "upon", and since upon does exist in the string it will perform the relevant action.
Is this possible?

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Strings Maybe?
hey every body... im working with a picture viewer... and like what i want to happen when you click one of the pictures is for it to load the same picture number from a different source...

so what i have now is when you press one of the pics, it traces which pic it is.... for example

Code:
_level0.images.pic15.pic

or

Code:
_level0.images.pic2.pic

now i just need the part where it says pic# so i thought i would try to rid it from every thing else but that part...

here is my feeble attempt

Code:
trace(this.pic.substring(16, myLOC.length-4))

but its not working for some reason... do i have to make this.pic a string before this is done or something?

thank you for any responses...

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Fun With Strings
hello everyone, i have a little problem getting a number out of a string...

the var crazy is just fine when its traced... it comes up with things like

Code:
_level0.images.pic32.pic

and i just want the part where it says "32"... so i used this code...

Code:
_root.attempt = crazy.substring(19, crazy.length-4);

but when i tried to trace _root.attempt, it came up as undefined...

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Strings Within Strings
howdy y'all
i'm trying to find someway in Flash to search strings within strings. eg - find 'train' in 'bigtrainstation'

does anyone know how to do this?

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Strings
Hello, I'm new to flash and I am developing a game for my software engineering class. And i'm having a problem. I want the user to enter a variable and the check to see if the variable is valid or invalid. Can someone please help me!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks, in advanced

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Strings
Is there a cool aproach to making a string look like it is vibrating?
-Steve

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Need A Help With Strings
this code is working fine...

ActionScript Code:
myString = new String();myLV = new LoadVars();myLV.load("isto.txt");myLV.onLoad = function() { myString = this.var1.toString(); i = myString.length; play();};stop();

but I would like this to work without loading the TXT file...

is it possible?

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Strings
Well new to the forum, but not to flash. I been trying to code up a graphing calculator for a few days. I have got to the point were now iam working with trying to graph logs and other trig functions. SO what i have did was make a few functions that takes an equation the user inputs and turn it into flash code.

ie if the user puts in y=Log(42x²+19x+7) my final string will come out to FinalString:CommonLog(Math.pow(1,2)*42+1*19+7). Now i was wondering if anyone knew how i could evalute that Strings as if it was

var answer:Number=CommonLog(Math.pow(1,2)*42+1*19+7)

Right now if i do var answer:Number=FinalString i get undefined.. anyway if anyone can point me to the right direction it will be greatly appreciated

ps.. hope this makes sense

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Strings
Hello

Im playin with strings but I dont know how to do something: here goes:

got these 2 strings:

ActionScript Code:
var x:String="andrei learns flash";
var y:String="he finds it very easy";

right so I want to extract "andrei finds flash very easy" from these 2 strings. But I want to do it dynamically. So I do this:

ActionScript Code:
var z:String=x.substring(0, x.indexOf(" ")) + y.substr(y.indexOf(" "),6) + x.substr(x.lastIndexOf(" "),6) + " " + y.substr(y.indexOf("v"),10);

trace(z);

But what i wrote here is not quite what I call "dynamically" because I need to see the strings, in order to use the above code. What if I didnt know before what the stirngs are and I want to extract a word from the 1st string, + second word from the second string, and so on? I cannot use the substring method if I want to do everything dynamically, because substring needs the exact position of the letters (which I find useless if for example I need to concatenate user's input text ).
SO all I want is to modify the above code as to not count the letters, because this is not dynamically... I need to assume that I dont already know the strings.

Im not the best at explaining things but I hope you understand what I need

Oh btw guys HAPPY NEW YEAR

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Splitting Strings
I am able to give a dynamic text box a name of bookmark, and also see the correct numbers when I run my movie (reads as 0.0.1). I want to split this string up so that I am able to read the three different numbers separately, and then be able to do an if then statement to send the user to the right page? I think string splitting is what needs to happen, but I have failed in the implementation. Any help would greatly be appreciated! Thanks!

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LoadVariables & Strings
I'm loading a txt file containing the following variable

duration=40

Now I want to scale the a circle to its normal value (100%) + 40.

getProperty("_root.project1.Circle", _xscale);
getProperty("_root.project1.Circle", _yscale);
setProperty ("_root.project1.Circle", _xscale, _xscale+duration);

I think this is because it doesn't recognize duration as a integer but as a string.

What can I do to fix this?

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Strings, Integers...
I'm loading a variable (numberofproj) from a external txt file into Flash, which should duplicate a MC a set number of times according to the value of numberofproj

It reads it as a string so I convert it to a integer
by using this:

numberproj = Number(numberofproj);

Then my duplication sequence is as follows:

while (numberproj>=1) {
duplicateMovieClip "_root.project", "_root.project" add numberofproj, numberofproj);
setProperty ("_root.project" add numberofproj, _visible, "true");
numberofproj = numberofproj--;
}

This doesn't work. I've tried replacing the add with & and even &&. Can someone help me?

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How To Compare Two Strings?
Hi folks,

I've got two movie clips with a dynamic textbox in each.
I need to campare the two strings they hold, I must know if the text is the same or not.

thanx in Advance,

ZooMann

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Strings And IndexOF
Im trying to make a game were the user has to enter in a correct answer this is what im doing.

if
Answer1.indexOf ("anwer1")
display = "correct"
else
display = "try again"

answer1 and display are my variable names for the input boxes
it works but only sometimes i have tried to use charAt but that doesn't seem to work.

any help would be great.
thanks
Jesse

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" In Strings?
How the heck do I add quotes to the end and beginning of a string?

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Splitting Strings
Yo people hows tricks?

I;m trying to split up a string into an array. Each element of the array is seperated by a comma. Up until now I've been using a loop to do it which works fine, but I believe there is a single command that will do it for me. So do you know it?

Cheers
Mark

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Comparing Strings
AARGH! this is so frustrating!!!
Im simply COMPARING Strings and IT wont WORK!!

Im loading Variables from a text file which works perfectly now, so i load a variable "answer1" which equals some string
i also have an input text box named input1
then a button plays, and in the next frame there is an action compares the 2 strings like this:

if ( input1 == answer1 ) {
Check = "True";
} else {
Check = "False";
}
stop();

and ofcourse there is a Dynamic Text Box named "Check"

and all it returns is False, even when the string is correct! even when i just put in the actual answer for answer1 ex: if (input1 == "test") ... etc, and i type in test it give me false!! its probably something small that im overlooking but i can't find it!! very frustrating! can some one help?!!

thx,

frank

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Tangled In Strings
I'm trying to make Hangman. To replace the blanks with a correctly guessed letter, I've got a script that takes the blanks before the letter, the letter, and the blanks after the letter and puts them together. It works fine unless I have more than one of the same letter.

Bleft is the blanks to the left
Bright is the blanks to the right
Letter is the letter guessed, in this case always A.

For AAAAAAH the result is A-AA
For BANANA the result is -A-A

Heres my script:

letter = "A"

// I'm using A, because I haven't set up the buttons yet

for(i=1; i<length(word); i++) {

// Word is the correct answer to the puzzle

if(word.substr(i,1)==letter) {
bleft = blanks.substr(1,i-1)
bright = blanks.substr(i+1, length(word)-i)

blanks = bleft + letter + bright
}
}

Any suggestions?

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Concat Strings
Hi,

i'm trying to split a string (or number) and then put it together....
i.e.
variable_01=155
and i need that variable01 changed to "1055" >> basically
"1"+"0"+"55"

how can i slice and put together the string. i like to perform this action for a group of variables and add the "0" at the second position of the string

thanx a lot for any help

jochen

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Strings And Arrays
Hi i was wandering if someone could help me. I want to have someone write something in a textbox, then press a button, which takes the text and splits it up into separate characters, then the code places those sparate characters into separate spaces in an array. Is this possible?!

thanks in advance
Josh

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Getting Rid Of Spaces In Strings.
ok... I have two variables. they both have to be the same, but one can contain spaces, and the other cannot.
eg:
(Action for Frame 1)
var1 = new String();
var1 = "hello new world";

(Action for button1)
on(release){
var2 = var1;
}

theoretically, 'var2' should be "hello new world" but i need it to be "hellonewworld". Bascially I need to get rid of the spaces.

can anyone give me a hand with this ....???

thanx in advance.

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Strings Panel

Hello! For first time i'm using the strings panel, the dynamic text box are working perfectly but how may i change the language using a button???...i'm looking for this on flash help..but if someone may help me quickly i'll be very happy. thank's for any help.

Hello!

For first time i'm using the strings panel, the dynamic text box are working perfectly but how may i change the language using a button???...i'm looking for this on flash help..but if someone may help me quickly i'll be very happy.

thank's for any help.