Flash :: Text Effect

How Do I Change The TextArea Component OnFocus Green Outline Effect? I Can See The Same Effect On This Text Input Box
Hi All,

I have a textArea. When I click on the tab key, the focus shifts to the textArea. And along with this a green outline comes around the textArea. How can I avoid the textArea outline color? IS there any way I can modify this?

I had once modified the checkBox component styles by editing a swf. Later I loaded this swf to the flash library. Can i do it something like that?
Will I have to use some AS code for this?

Can anyone help me out.

Thanks in advance:

Roshan

Text Effect - Masking Effect
Hello; I was on the site when I spotted a tutorial on a text effect, here.

I followed the tutorial and I got the desired effect and it worked perfectly! I then used the same effect on a project as it was perfect for what I wanted... I then tried to publish the flash (.swf) file and load it (just for a quick test) and to my surprise instead of having nice faded text, instead I got a huge white block that was used in the layer below the text for the masking. I couldn't see the scrolling text at all! It works perfectly fine if I go "Control -> Play".

Is there a publish setting I've got to enable? Another observation is that I get the same incorrect display when asking "Test Movie".

Please help!

Thanks in advance.

Yugop Effect(no Text Effect)
sorry by my english its very poor , i am spanish

hi to all. firstly i would like to say that I am charmed with this forum.i have learned greatly with. My question is the following one:
you know how to make the effect of the initial page of the last version of yugop? I refer to the effect in which there fall down balls of different sizes that hit between(among) them elastically and are disappearing random.
i will be very grateful if you could help me

Thank you very much

Regards

Text Effect - Masking Effect
I've followed a tutorial on a nice text effect that caught my eye, that I found here.

It works fine if I go "Control -> Play"; but if I try to publish it, instead of nice faded text effect, I just see the huge white block with the alpha linar gradient top and no text scrolling whatsoever! It's not only when I publish it, but also when I ask it to "Test Movie"... The only time it works is when I ask Flash 8 to Play the animation. I'm guessing I've missed something simple like a publish setting... But I'm a real n00b and need some help!

Thanks in advance.

Flash Script - Random Text Effect With Default Text Display
This is a dedicated thread for discussing the SitePoint article 'Flash Script - Random Text Effect With Default Text Display'

[F8] Load External HTML Text To Use For Text Type Effect
Hi everyone,
I want to use a script which generates a cool text 'type' effect.
But instead of declaring the text where the effect should be applied on, in the actionscript, I want the text to be externally loaded from a textfile.

I got this far: (to test if the text is loaded I made a dynamic textbox called 'thankyou' and that works)

PHP Code:

myData = new LoadVars();
myData.onLoad = function() {
thankyou.html=true;
thankyou.htmlText = this.myVariable;
};
myData.load("thankyou/thankyou.txt");

var txt:String = thankyou;
var i:Number=0;

var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
format.color = 0x000000;
format.align = "left";
format.font = "visitor";
format.size = 8;

this.createEmptyMovieClip("conteneur",this.getNextHighestDepth());
this.createEmptyMovieClip("curseur",this.getNextHighestDepth());

this.curseur._y=this.conteneur._y=60;
this.curseur._x=this.conteneur._x=65;

this.curseur.createTextField("zone",this.curseur.getNextHighestDepth(),0,0,20,20);
this.curseur.zone.text="";
this.curseur.zone.autoSize=true;
this.curseur.zone.embedFonts = true;
this.curseur.zone.setTextFormat(format);

tempo = setInterval(placelettre, 100);
tempo2 = setInterval(affiche, 150);

function placelettre(){
    conteneur.createTextField("lettre"+i,conteneur.getNextHighestDepth(),conteneur._x+conteneur._width,0,20,20);
    conteneur["lettre"+i].text = txt.substr(i,1);
    conteneur["lettre"+i].autoSize=true;
    conteneur["lettre"+i].embedFonts = true;
    conteneur["lettre"+i].setTextFormat(format);
    curseur._x=conteneur._x+conteneur._width+conteneur["lettre"+i]._width;
    i++;
    if (i == txt.length){
        clearInterval(tempo);
        clearInterval(tempo2);
        removeMovieClip(curseur);
    }
}

function affiche(){
    if (curseur._visible==true){
        curseur._visible=false;
    }
    else{
        curseur._visible=true;
    }
}

This is my textfile:

PHP Code:

myVariable=Testing testing oh yes I'm testing %26 Flash and actionscripting are great fun!!! etc.

How do I tell the effect script that it should use the loaded text file?
And how do I make the generated texteffect box multiline?

I think it just needs a little adjustment, maybe you could take a quick look?
Thanks for any help!

Text Effect On Multiple Objects From External Text File
Hello to all, I am having a lil problem and no one seems to be able to help me.

I am working on an interactive map, the map will contain different countries, each country is a movie. Each time the user click on a county it displays text in a dynamic field using a typewriter effect. (the text is imported from an external text file)

This is what I have so far:

var myMessage:String = "";
myData = new LoadVars();
a1_mc.onRelease = function(){

myData.onLoad = function(){
myMessage = this.a1message;
};
myData.load("texteffect.txt");

var i:Number = 0;

function autoWrite():Void {
if (i<=myMessage.length) {
monitor_txt.text = myMessage.substr(0, i)+"█";
i = i+1;
} else {
clearInterval(writingInterval);
}
}
// calling the function repeatedly with setInterval() method
var writingInterval:Number = setInterval(autoWrite, 20);

}

now this works Great for the one country “a1_mc”, but I have a lot of them: a1_mc, a2_mc, a3_mc, a4_mc……ect….., for the text it goes the same way: a1message, a2message, a3message….ect….

How can I set it up so it displays the right text for each country once clicked?
Keep in mind that I am using one dynamic field all of them.

Here is a sample of the project, i just started it so.....
cick on the top right country/sector of the map to see what i Mean (a1_mc)

http://wirelessconcepts.us/test/tacticalmap.swf

thank you

Text Effect (Writing Text 1 By 1 [small Problem ;)])
i was thinking of writing this, like so

Frame 1

Code:
msg.text = "A";
Frame 2

Code:
msg.text = "Ah";
Utill this

Code:
msg.text = "Ah yes, "+ _level0.playername +" I knew that was it.
Do you know who I am?";
But as you can see there is a varuable (user inputs his or her name),
so how do I write it, if I dont know that value and the amount of characters?

Random Text Effect With Default Text Display
Can somebody please send me a tutorial on this one. I think this is very cool effect.

Example of this can be seen at www.rob-dougan.com

Would appreciate it....

Need A Nice Text Effect For A Page Of Text.
I need a nice text effect for a page full of text.
I've looked at loads of movies in the movies section...
But all the effects are way over the top AND they are all for one line only.

Can anyone give me any links to anything decent?
Any help would be appreciated.

Jam

Input Text Box Effect With A Dynamic Text Box
Hey,

I was wondering if there is a way to simulate the "text cursor"(the blinking line that moves when you type) such as in an input text box, in a dynamic text box...

Youre probably saying why dont you just use and input text box....let me tell you, its way to complicated to explain haha

thanks in advance!

theo

Xml Dynamic Text, How Do I Give It Text Effect
I'm doing a website for my girlfriends new website, and she has some very specific requests. she wants the page to be like the attatched file, but wants the individual text to load with a fly in text effect(each letter individually), and then become the links to the various sections. Now I'm designing the site with a php backend to a mysql database, due to the fact the content may change. So I want each link to be nodes in a xml file created by the php backend. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can do this, I've been searching the web for 2 weeks now and can't really find a solution. Yes i am a novice with flash, but as this effect can't be achieved through another means I'm being pushed by my g/f to find a flash solution. Any pointers or advice greatly appreciated

Text Effect. Text In Deep Space
Hi,
I've seen somewhere a tutorial for a cool text effect: text as in the science fiction films seems to have perspective and scrolls from the viewer into deep space. They use this effect for the cast in the begining or the end of the film. It can be done by a triangle frame or something lik that. Has anybody seen this tutorial to give me the address please?

mx-guest2004

Loading Dynamic Text Into This Text Effect
I can usually figure things out on my own but for some reason I'm not getting the results I'm looking for. I'd like to be able to change the color of certain words in the text field so I'm opting to load the text dynamically in order to add the tags I need.

Right now it just plays whatever text is inputted on the header_text line of the code below.

Problem I'm having is I'm not able to load the text into the field.. I know I'm overlooking something but if someone could look at the code and let me know what i can do to load the text that would be appreciated.

Code:
// Title
// the text you want to display
// can be substituted for a external text file
header_text = "testtext.txt";

// Speed
// how many characters appear or "decode" at a time.
speed = 5;

// Delay
// delay before "decoding" begins.
// dependant on frame rate. a delay of 30 at 30fps would equal a 1 second delay
delay = 10 ;

//modify the following at your own risk!
header_length = header_text.length;
count = 0;
timer = 0;

onEnterFrame = function(){
random_text = "";
for (i=0;i<header_length;i++){
random_text += chr(random(57)+65);
}
header.htmlText = random_text;
timer++
if(timer > delay){
random_position = substring(random_text,count,header_length);
text_position = substring(header_text,0,count);
new_text = text_position + random_position;
header.htmlText = new_text;
count += speed;
}
}

Text Effect Effect
hi

im wondering if anyone knows how to run a shiny effect (this guy on this site has it running on all the cars )......its kinda hard to explain it so best thing would be to post the link and seeeeee if anyone knows.......which u guys all do.....would really appreciate if anyone can fwd me fla file or any thing on flashkit so i can download or tell me how this is done............

here's the link any help be appreciated
http://www.xs-engineering.com/

please email me at

infamous144@hotmail.com

Tamara

thankyou

PLEASE HELP-Text Effect From Text File
Hi

I am desperately looking for a text affect that is controlled by actionscript.

However, I need the actual text for the text affect to come from an external text file!

Please can somebody help!

I have seen in Flashkit effects that are created when you type in a word in the actual .swf. I need the text to come from a text file!

Text Effect For Dynamic Text
anyone know of either a script or component that allows you to animate in dynamic text at runtime? Something that'll work with html text/hyperlinks a well?

any help is appreciated!

Using Same Text Effect More Than Once?HELP
Hi, I hope yopu cna help I am fairly new to flash.

I have basically downloaded the text effect I wish to use, however I want to use the text effect more than once saying different words. The problem i am having is when I change the text in the actionscript for the first effect it changes the text where i have cut and paste the same effect in other scenes.

How do i get round this?? I have tried lots of text effects, simply cut and paste the frames into my scene change the text to what i want it to say. Then cut and paste into another scene and change again, but it only ever displays the text thats in the first effect.

I have tried chaging the variables so it doesnt look for same text but no joy.

Please please help me Its driving me nuts!

Brendan

::::'seven' Text Effect 2::::
Hello. >Firstly I am bad at actionscript!<
Recently with the help of this board I have made a cool effect which, when applied to a movieclip will make it jitter and flicker randomly (like the credits at the start of the film Seven) I really want to go a step further and make it change sizes also,(jump out at you + stuff) Maybe even randomly duplicate itself for a while with different alpha and scale etc. I also need it to stay in a confined space (like movie credits) rather than move ALL around the screen (which I can kinda make it do). Basicly I want it to be readable but really scratchy and eery without the huge size implications of doing it manually without actionscript. The script I currently have works by a set of values in the 1st frame of a movie defining the probability of the movement, the amount it jitters and the amount of change in alpha. If the same can work for its size change and frequency of duplication then that would be cool. I know its a lot to ask, and if I had the time and money to get myself really educated at complex scripting I would. Please could anyone provide me with the script or FLA to do this, I would be really thankful. If you have time to explain also I would go epileptic with gratitude but I could probably guess from the script itself..

Cheers guys....

'SEVEN' Text Effect --> Please HELP<--
.Hello everybody.
Recently with the help of this board we have made a cool effect which, when applied to a movieclip will make it jitter and change alpha randomly (like the credits at the start of the film Seven) I really want to go a step further and make it change sizes also,(jump out at you a bit, randomly) Maybe even randomly duplicate itself for a while with different alpha and scale etc. I also need it to stay in a confined space (like movie credits) rather than move ALL around the screen (which I can kinda make it do). So far I put this script in the actions of the movie clip:

onClipEvent (load) {
original_x = _x;
original_y = _y;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
jitter = math.floor(math.random()*_root.jitter_probability) ;
if (jitter == 1) {
jitter_x = math.floor(math.random()*_root.jitter_amount);
jitter_y = math.floor(math.random()*_root.jitter_amount);
_x = original_x - (_root.jitter_amount / 2) + jitter_x;
_y = original_y - (_root.jitter_amount / 2) + jitter_y;
alpha_change = math.floor(math.random()*_root.alpha_amount);
_alpha = 100 - alpha_change;
} else {
_x = original_x;
_y = original_y;
}
}

And then to control it put this in the first frame of the movie: (the numbers are obviously variable)

jitter_amount = 20;
jitter_probability = 5;
alpha_amount =50;

Could anyone help me expand this to make the movie clip also randomly duplicate and grow and shrink, and duplicate, preferably with the same control method as above (so you can just change the probabitlity at the 1st frame to determine how much it resizes and its frequency etc etc)
With this script I can complete my website, Please, please help if you can.
Thanks everyone...

Text Effect
this is my problem.
I have a dynamic letter inside an MC. I tween , rotate, ect that character. I set it to duplicate for the the amount of letters in the text. but that value remains the right value for the first 2 key frames of that tween and then goes back to the original letter that was in there. WHY? Hope this makes sense to someone..if so please help
Thanks

Text Effect. How'd They Do Dat?
Ok, one more question

Check this page out:
http://www.zero-g.f2s.com/firestar/#

I need to figure out how they made the text fly up from the bottom when you click on one of the buttons.

does the text become a movie clip?
What actions do i need to put in the buttons to do that?
Is it just tweened? how do i tween it like that, if it is actually just tweened.

thanks

Text Effect...
Hello there..
Since I'm a newbies to this flash program.
I just need some one to help me to make some text effects, and such as the text in "Hy Huynh" move around
Can any one give a step by step to do this:
I mean realy step by step making "Hy Huynh" text around move.
Even insert symbol, etc.

Thanks

Text Effect
Could u all take a look at this intro. This was made by derbauer. Just want to see if anyone may know what prog or have any idea how they did the text fx in this intro.(fire text fx). I thought it may have been done frame by frame in PS, but maybe im worng and there is a program that does this.

More Then 1 Effect For Text
How can i add more then 1 effect to text at 1 time like have it slide from the right while fading in, i can only have it right after another, i dunno what to do =[

Text Effect
Hi All

I am using version 4.

I want to create two text effects and was wondering how easy it is, if there is a tutorial that I haven't found or if it is easy to explain here.

I want to have a line of text move in from the left, but not as one line but as individual letters. It's easy to slide the line in but it looks very time consuming to slide in each individual letter.

Please tell me there is a simple way to do this.

Also, I want to have a line of text kern in from say 250 kerning to a normal kern. Hope that makes since. In effect when I pull the side scale out but have the text stay the same size.

Thanks in advance.

Digital Editor

More Than One Text Effect
Hi,
I have got a problem. I have tried to put more than one text effect downloaded from flashkit. But I do get a lot of problems when I have have more than one effect in the same scene. THough I have changed the names for duplicate movie , Still I am encountering problems, getting unpredictable output. Can anybody help me to put multiple text effects in the same scene with proper positioning.I am using Flash 4.0/Flash 5.0

Text Effect
Hi all
I recently Downloaded a smart clip, which is typer effect.
It animates letter one by one...since I have a very long text...it takes for ever to complete.
Here is code
----------------------------------
Textfield instace = box
----------------------------------
script on frame 1:
Length = length(textwanted);
----------------------------------
script on frame 3:
if (i<=length) {
box = substring(textwanted, 0, i);
gotoAndPlay (2);
i = i+1;
if (i>length) {
stop ();
}
}
----------------------------------
Text feed
textwanted:Hello world how are you............ so on and on.
----------------------------------
HOW DO I MAKE IT ANIMATE ONLY TENTH LETTER BY TENTH LETTER INSTEAD OF 1 BY 1?
----------------------------------

Thanks for the help
PilotX

Text Effect
Is there any other way to fade text in and out other than creating a motion tween? I saw on another website something called fademein or fademeout but could not download the file. Is this something with action script?

Thanks

Text Effect
Hello out there,
I remember seeing a project where an external text file was used to create a really cool effect in flash and i want to find it so i can make a generic file and learn how to do it.
What the project basically did was have an external text file, with a word in it, then flash would open it and animate it, weather fading it, or making it rotate or something, and you were allowed to change the text in the file and it would animate that text. Could someone please help me find the file? Thank you. OR if there's a tutorial somewhere that would be even better.

Thanks,
phara0h

Text Effect
Hi all
How do I add to animate by every tenth letter instead of one by one?
onClipEvent (load) {
j = 0;
}
//
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (j<_parent.text.length) {
textBox += _parent.text.charAt(j);
j++;
}
}
Thanks
PilotX

Text Effect
I downloaded one of flashkit's text things that do cool spins, and I get into edit the thing and all I see to edit is a W. I dont know where you edit that text that appears "Test Effect For Flashkit.com". Thanks a bunch for your help.

Joel McLaughlin

Text Effect Help
i have some text of 25 lines. it is from external txt file so, no of line maybe changed.

data.txt
text = "line1, line2, line3, line4, line5";

each line have max 15 words

code is like this

Code:
stext = text.split(",");

& one MC for holding this text with textfield

myMc textfield name : text

now i want when user click the button, the text appear with fading effect or each line appear after 2 sec delay or with bounce effect ......any effect

[Edited by laxmi19885 on 09-23-2002 at 05:55 AM]

What Text Effect Is This?
Does anyone know where i can find the tutorials or have the know how to make these text effects!?!

http://www.anycities.com/user/eliadar/first.swf

Text Effect
Hi all,
I just create a simple flash file with text effect having alpha turn on and off. If I use timeline bar to test it then the effect is working. However, if I publish or test movie the effect doesn't work. Can anyone tell me what I did wrong or missing in configuration? Please advise.

Thanks,
nodo

Here is the file so you know what I mean.
http://lt-engineering.com/thanksgiving_2002.swf
http://lt-engineering.com/thanksgiving_2002.fla

Text Effect
I started working on my personal site, but I've hit a road block.

I downloaded a custom font that looks good when using size 13. My problem is this. I need to turn off the text smoothing feature of Flash yet somehow embed it so that everyone can see that custom font without having to install it.

I managed to remove the smoothing effect http://www.pie-place.com/site.jpg by picking Dynamic text, but doing that causes anyone who doesn't have that font to use Times New Roman. It looks really bad that way.

I don't want to use any of the regular fonts because they don't look good and I don't want the text smooth. I saw that this site, http://www.rui-camilo.de/main.html , did what I'm talking about, but I don't know how.

Thanks for any help.

Text Effect
im learning actionscript and follow a tutorial based in Macromedia website..

i wish to know, what makes the character of the text become farther from one another. and why do the text suddenly fly away and stick on the mouse pointers..
it's hard to explain, so, i hope you can download the flash, and tell me which part i should edit..

thank you.

Text Effect
hi

im wondering if anyone knows how to run a shiny effect (this guy on this site has it running on all the cars )......its kinda hard to explain it so best thing would be to post the link and seeeeee if anyone knows.......which u guys all do.....would really appreciate if anyone can fwd me fla file or any thing on flashkit so i can download or tell me how this is done............

here's the link any help be appreciated
http://www.xs-engineering.com/

please email me at

infamous144@hotmail.com

Tamara

thankyou

How To Do This Text Effect?
Hello Friends:
See this site:
http://www.ondreabarbe.com/home.html

in this page, I saw this cool roll-over animation, wherein text is rotated and moved little up on the y axis. Is this done in flash or in swish or in some other tool? Or can we do it just using actionscript for each letter?

Thank you in advance,
WP

Text Effect
hey, i'm a fairly new Flash user, and got a question about a text effect. I downloaded one of the FK effects (the fla file since FLASHTyper don't work) and wanna know how to make it stop going if I click on a link on my site. my site is at www.altered.us, take a look at it, and you'll see that the effect goes and it stays on the screen even if I hit a button on the page. What can I do to make it stop going and open the next page on a clean background?

thanks

Text Effect
Does anyone know how I begin to achieve a text effect like the one on Group 94's website (http://www.group94.com)? I'm asking about how their paragraphs fill a letter or two at at while simultaneously deleting the previous text. I figured out how to delete the text but how do you add it in the same fashion?

Text Effect
hey, i have downloaded one (or rather 2) of the flashtyper effects from this site and messed with them on my new site. they obviously work by duplicating a few movie clips to get the effect. my question is whether there is a simple function to stop this massive duplication and make all the text disappear that i can assign to a button? my site is at www.altered.us please take a look at it. can you recommend a simple scriptline to make the effect stop and the letters disappear if somebody clicks on any of the navigation buttons, because it's pretty annoying. somebody recommended using the removeMoveieclip command but it doesnt work! Help! (there are 2 flashkit effects used here, with ca. 5-6 movie clips total)

Help With Text Effect
I would like to create a banner with text scrolling in, with the blurring/easing similar to the intro screen @ http://www.finalscratch.com/.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can point me in the right direction.

Vic

Need Text Effect
Hi guys i need a text effect to suite this
Easy.co

i was thinkin a lazer effect but im being lazy with this 1 and woudl like something easy any 1 know where i can get good text effect turoptials from i know this site has soem but there not what i want all post would be greatly appreciated cheers

Text Effect
Hi,
Just wondering if someone could tell me where I can find, or learn how to do the text effect that looks like someone is writing the words.

Text Effect
Hi there:

I am going to be working on a flash CD for a medical company. I did one last year which was fine. This year this company wants to follow a similar introduction to this flash presentation they saw on line http://www.splashinteractive.com/hospitality/flash.html

Several questions. I believe most of this is tweening and alpha fades. I am not a programmer but is there a better way to move the pictures to keep the file sizes down.

The text effect on this CD is like a reverberation does anyone know how to recreate this.

Also I have to create a heart beat where the beat starts off fading in and then fading out just like you see on a monitor. Does someone know how to pull that one off.

Thanks for any information that I receive back.

Text Effect
I want to create a 'typing' effect for some text you the sort, like an old computer typing in the text with the flashing bar preceding each letter.

Can anyone help me out, or point me in the direction of some code. Getting desperate!!

many thanks in advance

Text Effect
hi all, im having a problem recreating the text effect in the pic attached, it seems to work for me in flash when i play my flash file, but when i test movie or publish it it doesnt work at all????

it's the first picture on my story board, HEAVY, it's meant to be a the word Heavy Metal, but it like booking, vibrating, just like heavy metal music would be, it is illustrated in the pic the effect im trying.

what i did was initilly leave the word heavy in my timeline on a layer, then on another layer, match the word heavy, then rotated it left to right, fading the alph and making it a bit bigger.....but it just isnt working??

thanks for looking.

Raggio

i have actually added the fla file so you can see for yourselves.

Text Effect

hidoes anyone know how this text effect was achieved: http://www.xyleminteractive.com/thanxdirk

hi

does anyone know how this text effect was achieved: http://www.xyleminteractive.com/

thanx

dirk