Flash :: Text In Movie

Setting A Text Box's Text Property That Is Inside A Duplicated Movie Clip?
How do you set a text box's property that is inside a dynamically duplicated movie clip?

for instance:
I have several duplicated movie clips (mc1, mc2, mc3, etc...) which were duplicated off a movie clip named "mc" and I was wondering how you set a text box's property that is inside one of those duplicated movie clips.

I don't know how many of these movie clips there are, or I would just use a for() or while() loop.

I hope I've explained this clearly, but I think I just confused everybody.
Furry

How To Add Text To A Dynamic Text Feidl In A Movie Clip Added Through Actionscript?
ok I've never been able to get this to work so I've always just found a way around it. But I really need to get this to work in this project.

I need to get dynamic text to change in a movie clip Where you are adding the movie clip through actionscript (its not on the stage, you are adding to trhough createEmptyMovieClip). I can change dnamic text in a movieclip that is already onthe stage and thats usually how I get around this, but I really need to add it through createEmptyMovieClip this time.

The follow doesn't seem to work and I've searched everywhere all they all say this is how you do it but I can't get it to work...

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//create an Empty movie clip
var CountLayer:MovieClip = home.createEmptyMovieClip('CountLayer', 5);

//add the movie clip to the empty movie clip just created
CountLayer.attachMovie('ScoreCount_mc', 'ScoreCount_mc', 0, {_x:400, _y:400});

//test variable
var test:Number;
test = 0;

//Add text to the dynamic text in the movie clip
ScoreCount_mc.Score_txt.text = test.toString();

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

The above never seems to add anything to the dynamic text feild. So if anyone know whats going on here or the right way to do it please help.

Thanks.

Load Text From Text File, INSIDE A Movie Clip...
Hi, I'm making this website, and I want to have a news section on it, and therefore I have to load some text from an external text file. This works fine when I try it out in a new, blank movie, but on my page, I have to have the whole Text Field inside an MC, and this is where it all goes wrong....
Nothing shows up at all when I do exactly the same in the MC as I do on the mainstage...

I don't blame u if you didn't understand what I was talking about

Hope someone has an answer!!

Thomas

Putting Text Into Movie Using Dynamic Text And Html Tags?
If i declare a variable name for a text box in flash, then using action script fill in the variable using html tags does it follow all the same rules as straight html as if i were creating a page in notepad or does it need to be formated differently?

Reading External Text File Into Movie Text Boxes
So I'm trying to read a simple text file into an array and then putting that text into the dynamic text boxes of 6 movie clips

the MC are instances of 'CategoryBox'. Each instance is name cat1, cat 2, so on.

In the parent movie file the dynamic text box instance is called 'catText' and variable 'catText'.

Code:
// load the text file for Titles Questions
this.loadVariables("title.txt");

//Lets get the game going
this.onEnterFrame = function(){

//Titles loads? FIRE!
if(titles!=null &&titleArray==null){
titleArray = titles.split(";"); //makes new_ARRAY into an array having values of strings separated by a semicolon
trace (titleArray);
//title generations
for (z = 0; z < titleArray.length; z++) {

this.cat[z].catText = titleArray[z];
}
}

}
now trace shows the titleArray is getting it's goods, but the text in the clips is "_level0.cat2.catText"

text files reads as such:
titles=blah;blah; so on

Show Text In Dynamic Text Box (nested Movie Clip)
can someone please help me look in my file.. i stuck here 1 day already..
i wan the dynamic text box fill in the number when i click on the button. And the value is keep increasing by 1 once i click the button.

the nested movie clip is as folo,

mc_A-->mc_B-->txtnumber

the button is in the mc_B..

please help me... thanks..

How Do I Center A Text, Graphic, Button, Movie Clip Or Anything In A Flash Movie?
??
And also centering something in a rectangular. Please help.

Why Wont Text In Child Movie Scroll When Loaded In Parent Movie
why doesnt the text scroll when the news movie is loaded into the main movie. ive attached all files this time.

How To Load Text From Text File To Falsh Movie
How can we load text from text file to flash movie, so that next time you just modify the content of text file without modifying the movie for different text message on the same movie clip.

Revert Text From Being A Movie Clip To Being Normal Text.
Is there any way of doing this aside from cutting it all and redoing it?

My own fault for saving over the old file but now i need to revert it back to normal text and i can't now (as i saved and had to restart my machine).

Christopher Mitchell

Dynamically Created Movie Text Variable Text
I dynamically created a movie clip that has a text box to it, but I am having trouble getting the text variable to show up in the text box of the clip.

Here is my code. I am wondering what I am doing wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Attach Code

pScenario.scenario_txt.htmlText = myScenario;

//========Scenario Movie===================
var pScenario:scenario_mc = new scenario_mc();
var spriteScenario:Sprite= new Sprite();
spriteScenario.x = 450;
spriteScenario.y = 300;

//-----close scenario--------------
function cScenario(myevent:MouseEvent):void{
stage.removeChild(spriteScenario);
}
pScenario.closeScenario_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,cScenario);

//----------open scenario---------
function oScenario(myevent:MouseEvent):void{
stage.addChild(spriteScenario);
spriteScenario.addChild(pScenario);
}
scenario_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,oScenario);

Text Area Movie Clip W/ Input Text
I am using actionscript to edit text areas using the variable text and then typing out what you want it to say, along with the variable title. This changes depending on how the navigation is set up because the buttons guide everything by telling the text area what frame number to go to, hence leading to what text is displayed.

My question is, lets say you want one of the areas to be input text instead of displayed text, basically to have a contact area to be set up for the user to enter in email, comments etc. Or maybe a guestbook of some sort, integrated into the site with PHP. I understand how PHP works with Flash and how to set it up with input text, but what I don't understand is how to set up the text area, based on how I have it now, to have input text in the text area movie clip?

Do I need to create another text area MC for input text? Do I add a frame at the end and tell it to go there when the button is pressed? I tried both those ways, and when I tried the latter...The movie would reload itself instead of just go to another frame when you leave the area I delegated for the "input" area.

So, if someone could help me out with that I would be grateful and your time and effort would be much appreciated. I have attached a small example of what I am talking about via .fla file so you can dissect it.

Any help/suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thank you

Loading Dynamic Text Into A Movie Loaded Into A Movie
Hi.

I can without problem (1) load dynamic text into a movie clip inside a main swf file (2).

HOWEVER if I load the SWF file (2) in another Main SWF Movie (3) the loading ot the (1) dynamic text does not happen.

Any ideas ?
Using MX, and I have tried embedded fonts.

Miquelon

Loading Text File In A Movie Loaded Into Another Movie
I am trying to load a text file into a movie and then loading then iam loading it into the main SWF. However, when i load the movie in the main SWF the dynamically loading text doesnt appear.

The coding is: loadVariablesNum("home.txt", 0);

Can anyone help this is driving me up the wall!

Loading Txt File When Text Box Is In A Movie Or Movie Clip
Can you help me to do it when the textbox is in another movie or movie clip...?

I got some code to work for a basic load a file to a textbox... its just when there's a movie/movie clip I all the suddent have trouble...I use movies/movie clips because I like to break everything up and put together the parts and so if I change on part the rest of the site won't be affected.... In any case I could really use a Flash guru right about now...

I appreciate your help,

Chris

Loading Movie External Text File Into Another Movie...
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Masked Movie With Text Not Showing Text
Hi - is it possible to have text in a masked movie? As soon as I mask the layer with the movie with text in it - the text disappears? Any ideas?

Loading A Movie Within A Movie Using Text File.
I am currently using a text file to pull in variables for a Flash movie.

What I'd like to do is add a variable that equals the name of a separate SWF file. (example, VarX = secondmovie.swf)

I'm not sure how best to do this. When I try to call the variable in a function, it doesn't seem to want to recognize it, yet all my other variables load fine. Something about pulling a MC within the main timeline just isn't working.

Any ideas?

Why Does My Text Load Just Fine In Movie A But Not In Movie B
Hello,

Well last post concerned my Writers index (XML menu)
that's solved right now... but here i am with a new problem
In the Prev version of stopfortuyn.nl the texts where dynamicly loaded but the menu i created needed constant updating .. so (this version works just fine but i wanted to dynamicly load everythig into the site (even the buttons) .... well got this part working but when i klick the button which has the largest text to load (1066 words)
works in version 1 but not in the totaly dynamic version... what went wrong??????

please help me ou here...

URL for Version 1 http://www.stopfortuyn.nl (first menu option - a new menu will open, displaying the list of writers - choose Mercita Coronel -- so the submenu expands -- choose the text ... youll see the text just loads as it's supposed to...(version 1 = Flash MX you might need to install the new player)

URL for version 2 http://24.132.18.218:8080/fkindex.html
do the same as you did with version 1 .. youll see the text wont load........

Text Effect Movie Into Main Movie
Ok i have my movie and my text effect, and when i use the targetMC code to put it in there it works except the text from the text effect only shows the "w" that it was made with instead of the text i told it to say, yet when i run it by itself it works fine. Plz Help! - EnSanity
thanks!

Input Text From Movie To Movie HELP ME
Hello all I need some help, In my first Flash movie (welcome.swf) I have an input text field where the user places his name, when I load the next movie (begin.swf) I need to be able to pass the information from Movie 1 to Movie 2 and I am losing my mind trying to get this to work, can anyone help me PLEASE !!

Thank You
DEM

Movie Clips Within Movie Clips: Text Link Problem
Hello.

I have a Movie Clip that is my main one with another Movie Clip inside of it. In the subordinate Movie Clip, I wish to have text linking frame (13) to frame (14) for instance. The problem that manifests is that while buttons is the subordinate Movie Clip link to frames within it with no complications, the text link from 13 to 14 with its respective code links to the last frame (would be 14) in the main Movie Clip.

Am I doomed to convert all text links to buttons in the subordinate Movie Clip or is there (what I am praying for) a code to work around this and keep frame links confined to the subordinate Movie Clip? I would appreciate any help that anyone can offer regarding this problem. Many Thanks.

Text From One Movie To Another
So I was wondering if it is possible to take text from an input box that a user would enter and copy it to another text box in another movie. The format is below.

Movie 1 opens Movie 2 (an external .swf)
User enters information into Movie 2 (name, email)

Can the information be displayed in Movie 1? Let me know if further clarification is needed. Thanks.

Text In Movie
I was just wondering if my "form" is right for my html file.

In the area "text used in movie" A Lot of text is in here because of the size of the site.

I was just wondering if this is normal or good form on my page... any source files i've seen do not have this much text in that area... any insight would be appreciated.

<--text Used In The Movie-->
Hi all... I've been doing some customizing on Flash's default HTML template mainly because I wanted to have all the text used in the swf on the html code... although the $MT and $MU variables are there, it doesn't show on the generated HTML file.

HTML Code:

HTML Code:

$MU

$MT
anyone got a clue on this?? thanks

jose senra

Text Over Movie?
I was just wondering if it was possible to put like, a block of text over a flash movie in front page..

Text Used In Movie
Are the text content used in a Flash movie (that appears also in the html code when published) useful for search engines?

Text Over Movie?
I was just wondering if it was possible to put like, a block of text over a flash movie in front page..

Text Used In Movie
Are the text content used in a Flash movie (that appears also in the html code when published) useful for search engines?

<--text Used In The Movie-->
Hi all... I've been doing some customizing on Flash's default HTML template mainly because I wanted to have all the text used in the swf on the html code... although the $MT and $MU variables are there, it doesn't show on the generated HTML file.

HTML Code:

$MU

$MT
anyone got a clue on this?? thanks

jose senra

Blur Text On Movie
flash5
blur font on movie, but good looking on button and scene!!

what should I do?
what is a good BMP fonts?

thanks

Text In Flash Movie
I am having a problem with posting the text from my flash movie to the html document. I need the text to be in the html code to benefit the search engines. Is there any way i can no this?

I noticed it says in the html document...



But there is not text underneath it, does it have to or can it get it out of the .swf. Thank you, CJ

Text Next To Flash Movie
Hi,

I've got a Flash Movie and it's aligned left and I want text on the right of it, but it's always placed under the movie instead of next to it.

Thanks in advance
Greetings
Camme

Different Text In Same Movie Clip?
How can I get different text to load in a movie clip symbol? The movie clip is a text box thing that I want to load with different text depending on where on the page the user clicks. BUT I cain't figure it out.

The movie clip text box has a drag thing on it, so I need the text to be attached to it somehow, so the text will move along with the movie clip text box when the user drags it.

Thanks,
Matthew

Load Movie And Text
I am using the Load Movie action to load swf files into blank movie clips. The problem that I am having is with the text. The text will only be displayed if it is "static text" with out using device fonts.
What can I do about getting around this problem so I do not have to resort to using a pop-up?

Scrolling Movie Text Help
Hi,
Here is my problem

I have a text scroller and I want to know how I can change the color of some of the text.
www.spidadesign.com/cirque/home.htm

if u go to this link, and click on the clients link, U will see the text and a title of a company above each paragraph.

The script that I am using for the text scroller is as follows:

this is the script in the frame -

scrollableText = "and all the text of the scroller is btewwen these quotes"

the text is insert in a dynamic text boxed named scrollableText

can anyone help or give me an example of a way I cna use text which I can change colors to

thanks
Jason

Text FX Movie Clip
http://www.flashkit.com/textfx/index.php

Is it possible to use these text effects inside of a movie clip.

When I download the file every thing works fine, but if I copy and paste these frames to a movie clip then put that movie clip on the root level it does not work.

The movie dupicates its self the correct number of times based on the text variable but the individual letters are no being set, the stay at 'w'.

Dynamic Text In Movie
ok, here's what i am doing.
i have a fla with movie clips inside it. i want to have an input text field on the main timeline of the movie, then i want the input to show up in a dynamic text field within several different movie clips, each on a new keyframe in the main timeline.

so what i did was set up the input fields on the main timeline of the movie, with variable names, then put those variable names on the dynamic fields inside the movies, but nothing shows up in those fields when i test it and enter something in the input.

i assume this is because the input and dynamic fields aren't in the same timeline. how do i get flash to recognize the input field from the main timeline inside the movies?

Text Effect Movie
I am pretty new to Flash. I can do everything that does not involve simple action script.

What I am looking for is a Smart Clip where all I need to do is change the animation (using tweens) of a single letter which can then be applied to an entire block of text. I know I found something like this way back when I was using Flash 4. All I would have to do was enter the text into a variable, change the animation to whatever I wanted, then publish.

I am hoping for a clip so I can simply drop it into any movie quickly.

I guess this is probably a lame request because it seems that something like this would be already available if it were easy to do. If it is, I haven't been able to find it on this site or any other.

If anyone knows of a tutorial that can show me how to do this, that would be great too.

Thanks for any help!

HELP Dynamic Text Within A Movie?
I am trying to put a dynamic text box within a movie and it won't appear. I'm not sure why. Is there a trick to making this work?

thanks!
Nicole

Scale Movie + Text
Hi,

Is there a way to publish your flash movie so it is scaled when the browser is scaled but with the text kept at 9pt all the time (my text is in the device font tahoma)? I use static text now.

Thanx
Stanno

<-- Text Used In The Movie--> Questions
For some reason the text just doesn't show up in the published HTML. The $MT tag IS in the html-template I use.
I have pasted the template I use underneath - got it from this forum I think.

Quote:

$TTFlash Only (Centered)
$DS
Use an OBJECT and EMBED tag to display Flash. Content displays in browser centered horizontally and vertically, without margins.
$DF
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>$TI</TITLE>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="$BG">


$MU

$MT

<TABLE WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%" BORDER="0"><TR align="center" valign="middle"><TD><OBJECT classid="clsid: D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0"
WIDTH=$WI HEIGHT=$HE>
$PO
<EMBED $PE WIDTH=$WI HEIGHT=$HE
TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></EMBED>
</OBJECT></TD></TR></TABLE>

</BODY>
</HTML>

Another question is - would you say that having this text used in the movie in the published html is a good thing at all ?

Movie Get Slow With Text
Hi everyone,

my problem is that i have a movie that become very slow when it play an external movie(loaded swf) wich contain text.

First, after reading a lot of post i believed i found the answer, but obviously not. Those posts, revealed to me that tweening text(especially alpha) is offently a case of slowing down movie. So, i get rid of the tweening but still keeping the text and the problem wasnt solve. But, after that, i tried with no text at all and everyting was perfect. The text is not big, only few short lines or about 25 words. How come a bit of text can slow my main movie that much? And how can i solve this problem?

Here is some other specification:
-fps = 30
-text was tried with different font but didnt work
-the swf with the text is loaded in a swf wich is also loaded in another swf(the main one)
-all swf are preloaded via a containerMC
-the problem occur also in flash player (so it s not the browser)
-I use flash 5 not mx (i know... i should change)
-sorry for my english....!?!

Please, i need an answer! Even if its "bad news folk, it's impossible to solve_".

Thanks in advance!

Dynamic Text In A Movie
Okay, I know this has been asked before, but the other posts just didn't help me at all. So here is my question.
I have a dynamic text box in a movie clip. I want it to draw text from an html file (mo_gr_m1.html). The text box is not masked but other layers are if that matters. Now, where do I place what actions and what instances/objects do I have to name. I just need it explained thoroughly. Thank You.
This is what I've done so far:
The first frame within the movie clip says:

loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load("mo_gr1_m1.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
// trace(success);
_parent.newsbox.html = true;
_parent.newsbox.htmlText = this.short;
}
};

the external txt file says: short=Click here

And the variable of the textbox says: short
I want to implement multiple textboxes drawing from the same file within a movie clip. Please help me!

Load Text Into Swf Movie
when a button is pressed how would i load a txt file onto stage.

Overlay Text On Top Of An Movie
I am trying overlay a text ontop of an movie, I tried bring to front the text and send to back the movie, but it doesn't work. I tried to put them on two separate layers where the text is on a top layer, it doesn't work either. how can this be done?

All I Need Is Text On A Movie Clip
Here's what I'm trying to do. I have text on a button. I need another movie clip to represent the button's reflection. The path taken in the attached fla was to make totally separate movie clips for the reflection and button with both set as children of an answerOption movie clip. How did I mess this up. In the attached file, the reflection text displays "_level0.round.answer0.instance0" instead of the desired text. Why?
I'm extremely new.

Text In Movie

Hi,If I use text as part of my movie symbol, first, I have to ctrl + B text to make it visible, else I can not see in my animation.Am I missing anything ?Thanks