Text Field, Alpha And Special Characters

Heeeeeeelp Text Field, Alpha And Special Characters
Hi all,

I’m pretty new to Flash, but form the start I have a big struggle with coding. Hope some smart, experienced flash coder can help me with that.

I want to create an empty text box in the actionScript. Then I want to pass a variable to it, and set up its alpha to 50% (I embedded the Verdana font and linkage it to actionScript).


This is my code:

var myTxt:String="Łódź, Poznań; Moscow:Москва; Minsk: Мінск";

var txt_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
txt_fmt.font = "myFont";
txt_fmt.size = 24;
txt_fmt.color = 0xBF0000;

this.createTextField("city_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 25, 5, 200, 40);
city_txt.type = "dynamic";
city_txt.embedFonts=true;
city_txt.setNewTextFormat(txt_fmt);
city_txt.text = myTxt;

city_txt._alpha=50;

My problem is that it doesn’t want to display special characters like Polish or Russian letters. I know, that it is possible to embed characters, but I guess it is only possible to the text elements placed on the stage, and I need to create this text box dynamically in the code.

I tried to change the font into: Arial CYR, but still nothing. What I managed to discover so far is, if the line: "city_txt.embedFonts=true;" is removed, than everything is displayed correctly but than I can’t see my alpha.

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DYnamic Text Field With Special Characters?
I have a dynamic text box "loadText" and I'm trying to load text.txt into loadText. I also checked render text as html and multiline .. so basically I want to display news in the text field. I also want to be able to include special cahracters like ! , %, etc...

thanks.

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Rendering Of Special Characters In Dynamic Text Field
Everything works fine, except, when the text being displayed contains special characters (such as the german umlauts ä, ö, ü) the text is being anti-aliased... anyone a clue?

the text comes from a rss-feed, i tried a local file, utf-8 formatted, but that wouldn't help. here's the code:

//gotoAndStop(50);

var loops = true;
var loopstop = false;
var loopCounter = 0;
var ticker_y = 0;
System.useCodepage=true;

tickerformat = new TextFormat();
tickerformat.underline = true;
//tickerformat.bold = true;

function loadXML(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
for (i = 0; i <= 20; i++) {if (this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[i].nodeName == "item") {item = i;break;}}
for (i = 0; i <= 20; i++) {if (this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[item].childNodes[i].nodeName == "title") {ti_n = i;break;}}
for (i = 0; i <= 20; i++) {if (this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[item].childNodes[i].nodeName == "link") {li_n = i;break;}}

nx = this.firstChild.childNodes[0].lastChild.childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
for (i = 0; i <= 100; i++) {
ni = this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[i].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
if (ni == nx) {numOfNodes = i-item;lastNode = i;break;}
}
ticker_y = 2-30*numOfNodes;

for (i = 0; i <= numOfNodes; i++) {
n = "news"+i;
l = "link"+i;
_root[l] = this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[item+i].childNodes[li_n].firstChild.nodeValue;
ticker.txtbox.attachMovie("newsmaster", n, i);
ticker.txtbox[n].txt.text = this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[item+i].childNodes[ti_n].firstChild.nodeValue;
ticker.txtbox[n].txt.setTextFormat(tickerformat);
ticker.txtbox[n]._x = 30;
ticker.txtbox[n]._y = 30 + i * 30;
}
} else {trace("file not loaded!");}
}


ticker.txtbox.setMask(ticker.tickermask);

xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load("http://www.1asport.de/enid/rss/1aSport.rss");

Thank you!


Peter

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Problems With Special Characters (turkish) In Static Text Field
I have a huge problem, i have got to localize a flash file from
English to tukish using static text fields. There are huge amouts of
Text. So i got to import the text using copy paste.
But flash does not display the spezial charcters (tukish) right.
It ignores all the spezial charcters a S letter with a mark is displayed
as a usual s.
The stange thing is that the characters are displayed the right way
In word and even in photoshop. I know the problem does not appear
Using dynamik text but that is not an option here the text has to be antialiased.
I tried to use a spezial turish arial font result is the same
Please help time is running out for the job
thanks

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Special Characters Inside HTML Enabled Text Field
i am trying to load the content of an external html page by using a new LoadVars object, <loadvars object variable>.load("[htmlpage].html") and then
target the content of a variable inside the HTML page i.e. myVar to an html enabled text-field like:

textfield_txt.htmltext = <variable_inside_html page>;

It works fine, yet i am still missing something about special characters, like %.
do i need to provide the entity equivalent inside the html or something like the ascii equivalent? i am a bit lost and confused on this matter.......


i am looking for a solution that should work with a hybrid cd application-presentation under Mac & Windows...


thanx in advance!

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XML Field Names With Special Characters
I want to be able to generate an XML file in actionscript that I can open with excel, so I have made a small spreadsheet in excel and saved it as an xml file and am sort of reverse engineering it.

The problem is the root node of an excel spreadsheet has field names with colons in it, how can I use actionscript to create these fieldnames. It currently throws up an error because some of the field names have a colon in them.

Here is the root node of an excel spreadsheet to illustrate.

Code:
<Workbook xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
I tried creating a string variable with the colon in it called temp and then use this variable as the attribute, but that does not work. Doing that just creates a field name called temp,

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Special Characters, Input Field And UPPERCASE
Hi everyone!

I have an input_txt that is supposed to be all in uppercase. After embedding only uppercase letters and the special characters needed (Á, É...) I realized that users still would need to press shift+´+e to get É (in wich case you might aswell just ask the user to press caps lock instead ).

Now is there a way of making the input_txt show only uppercase on the fly, that works better with these chars? Like listening for ´+e and replace it with É or something...

Anyones previouses experiences are greatly appreciated.

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Special Characters In Dynamic Field Big Problem
Special characters in dynamic field big problem!!!
Dear friends, i buy some script on flash stock site but now i have problem.
In all text fields I'm embed fonts and special characters but i have problem with two fields, flash calls from .as file. Maybe I'm stupid but a don't know a bit from action script.

Please, can somebody embed in this code fallowing characters: "žŽšŠđĐčČćĆ".
Because when I run script that characters are missing in words. I'm use embedded font with name "my".

Big Thanks!!!!


Code:
//!-- UTF8
import flash.display.BitmapData;
import caurina.transitions.*;
import oxylus.tickerv1.main;

class oxylus.tickerv1.button extends MovieClip
{
private var loaded:Boolean = false;
private var node:XMLNode;
public var ord:Number;
private var arrow:MovieClip;

public var bg_normal:MovieClip;
public var bg_over:MovieClip;

private var Img:MovieClip;
private var pic:MovieClip;
private var picnormal:MovieClip;
private var picover:MovieClip;

public var title:MovieClip;
public var subtitle:MovieClip;
public var date:MovieClip;
private var wi:Number;

private var mcLoader:MovieClipLoader;

public function button()
{
arrow = this["arrow"];

bg_normal = this["bg_normal"];
bg_over = this["bg_over"];

arrow._x = 3;
arrow._y = bg_normal._height/2 - arrow._height/2;


pic = this["pic"];
picnormal = pic["normal"];
picover = pic["over"];

pic._x = 19;
pic._y = 8;

title = this.createEmptyMovieClip("title", this.getNextHighestDepth());
title.createTextField("txt", title.getNextHighestDepth(), 0, 0, 0, 25);
title["txt"].selectable = false;

title._x = 87;
title._y = 2;

subtitle = this.createEmptyMovieClip("subtitle", this.getNextHighestDepth());
subtitle.createTextField("txt", subtitle.getNextHighestDepth(), 0, 0, 290, 50);
subtitle["txt"].selectable = false;
subtitle["txt"].wordWrap = true;

subtitle._x = 87;
subtitle._y = 22;

date = this.createEmptyMovieClip("date", this.getNextHighestDepth());
date.createTextField("txt", date.getNextHighestDepth(), 0, 0, 55, 50);
date["txt"].selectable = false;
date._y = 5;
date._x = 320;

Img = pic.createEmptyMovieClip("myImage", pic.getNextHighestDepth());
Img._x = 2;
Img._y = 2;
wi = main.scrollerWidth;
mcLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
mcLoader.addListener(this);

}

public function setNode(n)
{
node = n;
title["txt"].text = node.attributes.title;
subtitle["txt"].text = node.attributes.subtitle;
title["txt"].antiAliasType = "normal";
title["txt"].embedFonts = true;
subtitle["txt"].antiAliasType = "normal";
subtitle["txt"].embedFonts = true;


date["txt"].text = node.attributes.date;
normalText(title["txt"], subtitle["txt"], date["txt"]);
mcLoader.loadClip(node.attributes.picture, Img);
resize();

}

private function resize()
{
bg_normal._width = wi;
bg_over._width = wi;
title["txt"]._width = wi - 140;
subtitle["txt"]._width = wi - 89;
date._x = wi - date._width;
}

private function onLoadInit(Img:MovieClip) {
var bd:BitmapData = new BitmapData(Img._width, Img._height);
bd.draw(Img);
Img.attachBitmap(bd, Img.getNextHighestDepth(), "always", true);
Img._width = Img._height = 56;
loaded = true;
}

private function onLoadError()
{
pic._visible = false;
title._x = 18;
title["txt"]._width = wi - 55 - 16;
title["txt"]._height = 40;

subtitle._x = 18;
subtitle["txt"]._width = wi - 22;

date._x = wi - date._width;
loaded = true;

}

private function onRelease()
{

if ((loaded)&&(this != main.cB)&&(main.moving==false))
{
onn();
main.moving = true;
main.cB = this;
var i:Number = 0;

for (i = 0; i < main.total; i++)
{
main.news["scroller"]["scrl"]["mlst"]["but" + (i)].onRollOut();
}


main.news["news_list"]["list"].goNext(node.firstChild.parentNode, ord);

}

}

public function onRollOver()
{
if ((loaded)&&(main.moving==false)){
overText(title["txt"], subtitle["txt"], date["txt"]);
Tweener.addTween(bg_normal, { _alpha:0, time:.2, transition:"linear", rounded:true } );
Tweener.addTween(picnormal, { _alpha:0, time:.2, transition:"linear", rounded:true } );
}

}

public function onRollOut()
{
if ((loaded)&&(this != main.cB)){
normalText(title["txt"], subtitle["txt"], date["txt"]);
Tweener.addTween(bg_normal, { _alpha:100, time:.2, transition:"linear", rounded:true } );
Tweener.addTween(picnormal, { _alpha:100, time:.2, transition:"linear", rounded:true } );
}
}

public function onn()
{

overText(title["txt"], subtitle["txt"], date["txt"]);
Tweener.addTween(bg_normal, { _alpha:0, time:.2, transition:"linear", rounded:true } );
Tweener.addTween(picnormal, { _alpha:0, time:.2, transition:"linear", rounded:true } );
}

public function normalText(theText:TextField, theText_:TextField, theText__:TextField)
{
var my_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
my_fmt.color = 0xa3a3a3;
my_fmt.font = "my";
my_fmt.size = 14;
theText.setTextFormat(my_fmt);


var my_fmt_:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
my_fmt_.color = 0x636363;
my_fmt_.font = "my";
my_fmt_.size = 12;
theText_.setTextFormat(my_fmt_);

var my_fmt__:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
my_fmt__.color = 0x3b3b3b;
my_fmt__.align = "right";
my_fmt__.font = "my";
my_fmt__.size = 10;
theText__.setTextFormat(my_fmt__);


}

private function overText(theText:TextField, theText_:TextField, theText__:TextField)
{
var my_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
my_fmt.color = 0xe5e5e5;
my_fmt.font = "my";
my_fmt.size = 14;
theText.setTextFormat(my_fmt);


var my_fmt_:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
my_fmt_.color = 0x999898;
my_fmt_.font = "my";
my_fmt_.size = 12;
theText_.setTextFormat(my_fmt_);

var my_fmt__:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
my_fmt__.color = 0x4e4e4e;
my_fmt__.align = "right";
my_fmt__.font = "my";
my_fmt__.size = 10;
theText__.setTextFormat(my_fmt__);

}

}

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Input Field & Font Issue - Some Special Characters Displaying Different Glyphs
Hi all.

I'm redesigning my website now. I have a contact form that works the way it should, except I have a strange problem with non-standard-latin characters like ı, İ, ş, Ş and ğ (specific characters Turkish uses other than the shared ones like ç, Ç, ö and Ö).

I have a container movie that shares fonts with a fonts-only movie called "fonts.fla". All the fonts are appropriately exported & imported so they show up the way they are supposed to. However, when I input, say "ı" it displays a strange character, "¦" but when I copy the right character from another application and paste it, it shows the right glyph. Same happens for other characters listed above ("ş" becomes "§", "ğ" becomes "©"). It is like, there's a problem with the glyph-mapping of the keyboard (but there is not, with any application or website but this).

I thought maybe setting the System.useCodePage to true or something might fix it but in fact it didn't. I have no idea what is going on with the file.

What I have tried so far...
- embedding these special characters in the text fields
- using a system font (that has these glyphs) without embedding
- using (and embedding via symbol) another font that I know has these characters
but the same result.

Does anybody have a slightest idea what might be causing this, or what the solution might be?

Thanks in advance.

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Special Characters In Text-Box
Hey,

Okay, so I've got these text-boxes on my site that hold huge chunks of text.
Okay, no biggie. I need quite a few of them to show the euro symbol. I read that you could show it using the unicode escape sequence u20AC, which does work, but not in this case. Because the text block is so huge, I have to load it from an external text file. Well, I can't put the hex code in the file 'cause then flash parses it ike regular text. I tried embedding the symbol into the text-box, but the only way I can get it to show up is if the euro symbol is in the box all by itself.

I have to have this done tonight, somebody please help!!!

Thanks in advance,
Me

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Special Characters And Mac-text
Anybody got a suggestion for a good text editing tool that enables me to export or save txt-files so that they can be loaded into an swf-file (with special characters)? On the PC, notepad and such do a fine job, but the macintosh platform... I tried Simpletext, Worldtext, BBEdit Lite, Word98.
Is it ASCII-related?
O yeah; it's for a flash 5 swf...

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Loading Text: Special Characters
When loading in variables is it possible to mark out the '&' sign?
Cheers

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Special Characters In Dynamic Text
I am sorry if this is posted in the wrong section...

In my movie, I have a dynamic text field. I set it's value w/ actionscript:

text = "hello my name is santa"

however whenever I put a dollar sign ($), it will not print in the output. In example,

text = "you owe me $5"
output will be: "you owe me 5"

Any ideas? Thank You!

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Importing Text With Special Characters
im trying to import a simple .txt file to flash
the text contains special characters like äö
those letters are being replaced by squares.

Do you have any sugestion?

Thanks

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Special Characters In Input Text
has anyone experienced the problem of pasting text with special characters into an input text box in flash? what does flash do to the characters? if i knew how it was translating them, i could swap them for the correct character since i have to parse the text anyway.

thanks

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Special Characters In Dynamic Text Box
I have a dynamic text box that shows different text depending on what button I'm rolling over. It looks something like this, where "text1" is the variable. How do I get the TM to be tiny next to the word "Name"? On a mac it would be like typing option-2.

Code:
_root.Button1.onRollOver = function() {
text1 = "Name™ Description"
};
It looks correct in the scripting area, but then doesn't show in actual use.

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Special Characters In Dynamic Text
hi,

i'm form Chile, so i speak spanish. i'm loading a dynamic text, but some spanish characters like "´" and "ñ" (i hope you see the characters in "") do not appear. Por example, the word "drásticas" which has the special character over the "a" appears "dricas", that is, it skips the letter with the special character and the 2 following letters.
Anyway, i've tried using the embed option for dynamic texts, but may be i'm using it wrong.

please help.

thanks

bb

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Special Characters And Text Fields
I have just followed a tutorial where I made a guestbook using Flash and PHP. The information in the guestbook is stored in a .txt file.
My problem is that I want the users to be able to write in norwegian as well as english. So I embedded the font outlines for the norwegian characters Æ Ø Å. But it only works on the input fields. These fields are where the users write their name, email, website and comments.
The characters do not show up in the multiline, dynamic text field(with "Render as text" checked). This is the field where all the information is sent after the user has pressed the Submit button.

Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?

Any help is appreciated!

Fjellman

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About Special Characters And Dynamic Text
hello,

i have some problems displaying the turkish characters.

i'm sending the link and the example files. I downloaded them from Flashkit.

here is the link,

News

There writes "Son Haberler" which means "Latest News" below somewhere.

There writes "Heim tekstil fuarý", or supposed to write. but "ý", "þ", "ð" cannot be seen. Instead some absurd characters. By the way this is a dynamic news update system.

What i ask is, is there a problem with the char-set of PHP file or should i embed the font to dynamic and input boxes? What i'm going to do?

Can you help me after having a look at the files or the link?

THANX,

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Won't Show Text Or Special Characters...
I cant get this map to dislay characters or symbols when rolled over. Attched is the .fla. I appreciate your help

ex of problem...when you roll over the east coast...it should read 12 Midnight, March 25 Also, characters like a colon, commas, and slashes will not output.

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Special Characters In Dynamic Text
Hello all -

I am pulling in text from XML into my flash file. I need to include ® Everything I have read so far says MX won't display &reg; however it does support the html img tag. I wasn't able to pull in an image either - any suggestions?

Thanks!!

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Special Characters In Text Loaded From XML
Hi there,

I can't seem to get some special characters to show up in my dynamic textFields. I have text loaded from XML files, photo captions basically, that won't display quotation marks, double quotes, etc. I'd also like to be able to give them some .html style formatting, but anytime I try to add escapes-- -- or to add html tags to my XML, well that doesn't work either.

Seems like someone must have come across this. Perhaps I'd be better off with .txt or something?

Richard

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Possible Special Characters For Text Load
hey. I am using an external text file to load up content.

I am wanting to use • (a solid point). I use %95 which works fine. The problem is when I embed the font this character simply does not work...certain others don't work either. I have tried every possible range and I cannot get it to work...

So does the range of characters get reduced when you embed a font???

Does anyone have an idea???

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Special Characters In Text Area
I working with a TextArea Component. I am loading a XHTML file into it that includes CSS.

It is not translating special characters like double quotes & apostrophes.

whadoido???

Any suggestions.

www.austinfitmagazine.com/test.html

Go to the first section (health) in the navigation.

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Special Characters In Dynamic Text?
I have a dynamic text box that is read as html from a file. I have set the font as new times roman and arial and both times instead of a ' i get a box. i tried embeding characters but then words dont come up or it stops after a colon. any idea's?

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Dynamic Text And Special Characters
I have a dynamic textbox using the "flash for fonts" font Business Bold.
I have the textbox set to render text as HTML
I have Punctuation set in the Character dialog box for the textbox
It indicates the font has 53 glyphs
The variable is
Code:
_parent.contact_maintext

on the parent I have
Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
contact_maintext = "paul%40tossfad.com";
}

I thought this would display the "at" symbol, but it does not.
The "at" symbol does display in a standard static textbox.

where am I going wrong

thanks
Mark

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Special Characters In Text Fields
I'm importing XML files and putting the data into htmlText fields.

For some reason, HTML special characters such as &trade; and & aren't showing up as such. They're just showing up as their code. This is a watered down version of the script, with the important parts intact:


PHP Code:




bodyCopyMC.bodyContent.html = true;
bodyCopyMC.bodyContent.htmlText = contentArray[0].bodyCopy;







The copy shows up, but it displays &trade; as &trade;, and not ™. Any ideas?

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Load Text And Special Characters
Hi,
I'm trying to load an external text file that contain a special character.
I used unicode escape character to do that.
e.g. test = "Part One u2014 My Life Story"
It works when tested on the Flash file, but when I loaded the txt file, it doesn't display the character, instead it show the unicode.

I've uploaded the files If you want to see. Really appreciate someone telling me what's wrong with it. Thanks so much!

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Special Characters In Dynamic Text
I am importing text from an xml document at run time. Everything comes over ok except for a few characters. The ' does not display correctly and β (greek lower case beta symbol). Does anyone know how to import these special characters? Is there a list somewhere?

I tried embedding the greek characters in the text field properties with out any luck. Do I need to format the xml text differently?

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Converting Text Special Characters...
Hi-

I'm trying to call a URL with a variable. I'm loading text into the variable, but need to convert the text into a format acceptable for yahoo maps...

So I need to convert spaces to +, etc. Is there a simple way to do this? Or a way to convert normal text with spaces and other characters into a format that yahoo or google maps will recognize?

thanks in advance.

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Special Characters In Text File
I'm doing a flash site in English and Spanish. The problem is I just realized that special characters will be an issue, so I tried to put an ? (also quotes) in my xml file and it commented out all the rest of the text. Do you know what needs to be done to allow them.

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Reading Special Characters From A Text File
hi,

i'm loading variables from a text file and it works fine except for some special characters which are not read correctly by flash mx. i'm using the codes from http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...l_encoding.htm but most of the codes for special characters do not work!!
i especially need to be able to show the spanish "ñ" and the letters with an accent "é","á", etc.

my textfield property "render text as html" is enabled.
does anybody have an idea?

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Code For Special Characters In A Text File
Does any one have a tutorial that places characters like " , - etc. will input them correctly from a text file.

Andy

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Special Characters In Input Text Fields
I am having problems with special characters. Here is what I've done so far. First I added all the UTF-8 character codes for the characters I needed in a Text file . On the first line of the text file I have this...with the corresponding codes underneath

//!-- UTF8
232
233
234
235
236



..I saved it as "myText.as" .. in UTF8 format...I saved mine in winXP notepad because I tried with other text editors and it wouldn't work

then in the Actionscript editor type these lines in the first frame.

System.useCodePage = true
#include "myText.as"

This worked great in a player and now on my computer to type these characters into an input text field. However, over the internet it doesn't work. Please help. Thanks.

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Special Characters In Variables From Text File?
Need to include = and & characters in urls to be loaded from an external text file (one of the variable1=value&variable2=value etc. style ones)

any idea how i'd represent & and = ? is there a master list of escape characters somewhere? i can't find one.

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Dynamic Unicode Text And Special Characters
hi.

i was told if i want to upload a dynamic text from a .txt file into a dynamic text fileld in flash6 i should save it as unicode file (for e.g. with word) in case i use special html characters (ä,ö,ü...etc.).
o.k. so far, but my text has to start with a variable name like var=...text...,
and the unicode format puts some symbols in front of the "var=" so it can not be detected by flash anymore. what to do?

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Loading Special Characters From Text Files
Hi
How can I load a variable with a special character in from a text file?

In my text file I have:
word=après

It is always loaded incorrectly by flash.

thx
all help appreciated

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Seting Text Vars W/ Special Characters
Im tring to set a string to something like

set ("phrase", "haha this is soo "random" to you")

but when i attempt to add the qoutes around the word Random, it ends the string. Can somebody give me a quick solution?

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Unwanted Bold Text In Mac With Special Characters
I'm publishing for Flash player 6. Some of the text in the site is loaded from a XML text file then displayed in a text field using htmlText. It works fine in Windows. However you look at the site in Safari on a Mac (OX10, FP 9) whenever there's a special character in the text the line in which the character appears is bold. The special characters are included in the text file as I wish them to appear, rather than giving the character codes.

Anyone know what's going / have a solution? If you've got a Mac go to www.catherineking.org and hover over More Music to see what I mean.
Thanks
Andrew

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Embedded Dynamic Text/ Special Characters
Hey all,

I have a dynamic text field, with text embedded into it, not loaded from outside the movie. I did this cuz the scroll component I am using requires it to be a dynamic text field. My question is, with dynamic text how do you display special characters? For example, the following line:

Über 30 Charaktere

when published comes out as:

ber 30 Charaktere

Any Ideas?
Thanks.

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Special Characters External Text Files
Help, I have a dynamic text box that calls in an external text file. My question is how do you write the code for special characters i.e. & and "" within the text file so that they work!! The normal tags work <b> and <li> but I can't get the others to.

Example of the sentence:
The local T&S store had a "jolly good turnout"

I've tried:
The local T&S store had a "jolly good turnout&quote:

Have I written it wrong! Can anyone help me?

Thanks Dani

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Special Characters In External Text Fields
Okay, I'm sure I'm suffering brain fade here, but in a flashMX movie I'm using an external text file that has an ampersand in the text. But when the swf runs it stops at the ampersand and displays neither the & or any more text. I've tried escaping it, using html ( & etc ) - nothing works. Solutions?

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Special Characters In Dynamic Text Boxes
Still getting the hang of dynamically loaded text (using loadVariablesNum), I wonder if any of you nice people can help me with this little issue. Anyway, I have several dynamic textboxes on stage with variable names why1, why2 etc. loadVariablesNum loads text.html that contains a bunch of html formatted text. The problem is when it comes to displaying special characters. The way I would display, for example, "%", in html, would be to use "%". When the html is loaded into the swf however, anything including and after the "&" is not displayed (which is, I think, because flash reads "&" as the start of a new variable). So is it possible to display symbols such as "&" in dynamically loaded textboxes in flash? I'm guessing so, but I'm not sure how to proceed, so I'm turning to ultrashock for help here. Any info would be appreciated.

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Macintosh Special Characters In Static Text
Last edited by poindexter : 2002-07-17 at 08:38.
























Here's the rub bub.

I have a line of static text that I need to display a divsion symbol in. (ie: 9 ÷ 3 = 3) When I type the ÷ symbol (Opt /) it displays ÷ but immediately changes to a weird symbol when I click out of it.

What the fugg?

Keep in mind this is static text.

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Special Characters Problem While Loading Text File
Hai Flash guys

I've problem loading the text file with special characters. That mean in my text content i'm having "&" symbol. In movie this text file loading and displaying up to this symbol and other contents are not displaying. I come to know that for this special characters we've to give code as "%25" in text file. And now its working fine.

I don't want to give code to this type of special characters every time in my text. We can place script for this character allowing in movie to display its right.

If u've idea pls give solution for this. I would like to know about this solution

thx
sathish

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Display Special Characters In Loaded Text Files: &, •, Etc...
i have had Zero luck at this. Im trying to load a series of bullet points followed by text into a text feild.

the feel like there should be an escape character so i can use &#blah for the bullet code. Is this so?

if not are there any ways around this issue? the & will make flash think there is another var in the text file. How do i get around this?



please help me get up, for IveFallen.

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Special Characters & HTML Entities In Flash Text?
I am pulling in an external .txt file into a dynamic text field in Flash. However, the formating is very limited and it doesn't seem to support special characters and HTML entities (i.e. ō) like a regular HTML page in a browser would.

What are my options here?

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Text Encoding Special Characters - Dynamic External
Hey, I have solved this before, but I forget how. When I pull in text from an external doc and populate a dynamic text box text content with the variables, it doesn't recognize apostrophes, quotes, etc. I don't want to click on the "embed" button in the Flash UI and embed the characters that way in the font because that makes the swf way bigger than it has to be.

I remember from a past project a few years ago that I found it had something to do with the text encoding, and I could save the external text file as a UTF-8 or something and then use the html/ascii code for the grammar marks and it worked, does anyone remember exactly how that works?

thanks!

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Problems With Alias Text When Working With Special Characters
Hi,

I always have the same problem with alias text... I work with spanish text and so I use special characters such as á, é, etc...
I don't have any trouble using é, ó and so on, but "á" transforms in "·"!!!
It must be a bug, because it is no different from the others...
Is there anyone who knows how to solve this bug?

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