Flash :: Text Rendered As Html

Email Comes Out As Rendered Html Text
Hi,
I am using the DateField component in flash. I have to email the data once the user chooses the a specific date.( I am doing this because the DateField component is not a text field). So what I did is that that I posted the data to a input text, defined a variable on the text field and wrote a php script to email the text field. I have made sure that the text is in input format and "Render text as HTML" is turned off. But for some reason, the email sent out is still in HTML. i have tried every possible thing that I can think of, but it keeps emailing in HTML format. Can anyone please please please please help me. im putting the action script and the php script as well.

Action Script Code:
on (release)
{

import mx.controls.Alert;
myClickHandler = function (evt){
if (evt.detail == Alert.OK){

}
}
Alert.show("Thank you very much. Your message has been sent.", "Reservation Alert", Alert.OK);

if (pickDateText1 != undefined && pickTimeText1 != undefined && dropDateText1 != undefined && dropTimeText1 != undefined && vehicleTypeText1 != undefined && pickLocationText1 != undefined && dropLocationText1 != undefined) {

loadVariablesNum ("reservation.php", 0, "POST");

//name = "";
//subject="";
//message="";
//email="";
}
}

Php Script:

<?
$to = "email@address.com";
$subject = "$_POST[pickLocationText1]";
$msg = "Pick Date: $_POST[pickDateText1]

";
$msg .= "Pick Time: $_POST[pickTimeText1]

";
$msg .= "Drop Date: $_POST[dropDateText1]

";
$msg .= "Drop Time: $_POST[dropTimeText1]

";
$msg .= "Vehicle Type: $_POST[vehicleTypeText1]

";
$msg .= "Pick Up Location: $_POST[pickLocationText1]

";
$msg .= "Drop Location: $_POST[dropLocationText1]

";
$headers = "From: Titans Reservation <someemail@example.com>
" .
"Reply-To: someotheremail@example.com
" .
"X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();
mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);

?>

Thanks

Formatting Text Rendered As HTML
I have a dynamic text box, which is fed text from an external text file. The "render as HTML" button is turned on. On the external text file, what is the HTML tag for centering text? I tried CENTER, but it failed.

Masks And Html Rendered Text =[
In Flash MX setting a Mask over (layer above) dynammic Text Rendered as Html, will cause the Text to not appear in the swf. This sucks because the Movieclip scroller I am using requires a mask along with my layout.

Has anyone invented any solutions to this problem? I've seen one where you can scroll your movie clip and as soon as scroll stops your html rendered text appears.. but that's kind of killing my layout/mission.

thx

Dynamic Text From MySQL Problem. Multiline + HTML-rendered Text Wanted...
Hi.

I'm in the process of writing a guestbook using Flash, PHP and a MySQL database. A large part of the Flash-code, is fully functional, but there is one strange problem.

The text i'm echo'ing from the PHP document into Flash, doesnt wrap correctly in my textfield. I've set the textfield to multiline and I've pressed the "Render as HTML"-tab. But the text is displayed with HTML-tags and stays on one line.

This is how it looks: http://www.riminalitet.org/guestbook.swf The buttons below the field are "Next"- and "Back"-buttons for the submissions...(It's danish )

I've experienced that it works if I use
instead of <br> in my HTML-formatted code. But I'd like to use <b>BOLD</b> as well. And if I urlencode my output-code from PHP, nothing changes. Still one line with HTML-tags...

The textfield is embedded in a scrollPane. I'm targeting this field in my LoadVars function. Can this has something to do with the problem?

Should I use the ScrollBar component in stead of the scrollPane to retrieve dynamic text? (This would be a little bugging, since my goal is to display the text nicely with some graphics around it).

Hope some of you guys can help me with this. Bye now...

Masking Imported HTML Rendered Text
Okay, I am having a major problem. I want to be able to mask a dynamic text box (which I can do, I have embeded the fonts) that imports text (which I can do) and then render it in HTML. The last part is where I have problems. I can get the text to show up if the HTML rendering is off, but once I turn it on, the text is gone.

I was wondering if and how my problem can be solved.

-Phil

HTML Text Not Rendered When Including Outlines?
Hi,

I have some text that I want to mask. The dynamic text is in HTML-format. This combination however doesn't seem possible. The text isn't shown when masked if the outlines aren't included but the HTML isn't rendered when the outlines are included.

Well, thanks Macromedia. Any suggestions?

ThanX.

Alpha Or Mask On HTML/CSS Rendered Text
I'm getting some text from an XML file and I render it using HTML and a CSS file. I'm trying to fade that text (it is in a mc); it doesn't work...

I know that I have to embed the font when rendering text or htmltext if I want to fade it or whatever. But it doesn't seem to work using stylesheets.

Is it possible?

Thanks!

HTML Rendered Text Is Not Outputted Correctly
I have a dynamic textbox that I pass a variable to and tell to render as html.

Code:
var myTxt = "<i>Q: What happens when I press DONE?</i>
";
Which gets outputted to the screen as:
What happens when I press DOE?

Not a typo there, it chops off the 'Q:' in the beginning, and leaves the letter 'N' out of the word done. I have all letters and punctuation embedded, so I have no idea what's going on.

[F8]html NOT Rendered In Dynamic Text Field.
I'm loading in the following text file:

Code:
vartext1=<b>Happy+girl</b>++++++oil+on+canvas,+20x30+inches,++2002
Using the following code:

Code:
loadText = new LoadVars();
loadText.load("text1.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function() {
text1a.text = this.vartext1;
};
My dynamic text field is called "text1a" and the option to "Render text as HTML" is lit. The output of the .swf is:

Code:
<b>Happy girl</b> oil on canvas, 20x30 inches, 2002
Any clues as to why the bold tag is not rendered as html in the dynamic text field?

Is There's Any Way To Center Dynamic Text Rendered As HTML?
is there's any way to center dynamic text rendered as HTML?
i tried <center> tag which didnt work.
<div align="center"> also didnt work.

am i missing somethig???
or there is no way of centering the txt?
any input will be appreci.......
thanx

Alpha Or Mask On HTML/CSS Rendered Text
Hi! I'm a long time reader of this site, but just registered =)

I have a small question for you. I'm getting some text from an XML file and I render it using HTML and a CSS file. I'm trying to fade that text; it doesn't work...

I know that I have to embed the font when rendering text or htmltext if I want to fade it or whatever. But it doesn't seem to work using stylesheets.

Is it possible?

Thanks!

Links In HTML Rendered Text Fields
Hi guys,

Im currently working on a website that uses externally loaded text files, rendered as HTML in flash for a news section. My problem is that i need to add a html link that will open a window whose size can be set.

I can add the link fine but i dont know how to set the window to a specific size. Ive tried using javascript calls but it doesn't work.(for me)

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers
Rixter

Alpha Or Mask On HTML/CSS Rendered Text
I have a small question for you. I'm getting some text from an XML file and I render it using HTML and a CSS file. I'm trying to fade that text; it doesn't work...

I know that I have to embed the font when rendering text or htmltext if I want to fade it or whatever. But it doesn't seem to work using stylesheets.

Is it possible?

Thanks!

Scroll Component & HTML Rendered Text. HELP
Hello Guys,

I have a bit of a problem that I need a little help with (well... big help!) I am using Flash MX (I am not using mx 2004) and I've recently just started using the new style of scrollers that are included components in MX (ok so I am a little behind the times here!). I was always use to flash 5 style scrollers.

Anyways down to my problem. I am having problems getting the text I am reading in to scroll to render as HTML. Here is what I am doing:

I have a dynamic text box that is multiline, I am clicking on the button to turn on "render text as HTML" and the instance name of the text box is "text". I am then adding a actionscript to the first keyframe in the timeline that is a loadvariable loadVariables("text.txt", "text");

Then I am adding in my component scroller that was included with MX and it is targeting textfield "text".

Now everything is working fine and it is scrolling my text - it loads in from the txt file and all that but it will not render the text as HTML no matter what I try to do. Am I using the wrong method? Some help would be so much appriciated!!!!!

GotAndPlay () In A Html Rendered Text Field?
Hi,

I have this big problem. I am using dynamic text with scrollbars. In this text I want a link that will bring my movie to a new frame when the user clicks on it, instead of opening a new window.
I rendered the text as HTML, so the HTML code works.

I found another thread here, where somebody makes an invisible button over the text, but since I use scrollbars, that's no good for me.

Can somebody help me? Maybe point me to a tutorial, because I am very new at this.

Thanks you very much.

Glitch: Text Box Rendered As HTML - SHOWING CODE?
Hey guys...
I've got a problem with a site I'm getting ready to launch....in the body copy (see services section) I had to render the type as HTML as this is the only way I knew how to be able to make certain parts of the type green and linkable.

On some systems (specifically a Mac running IE 5.0) the body copy is showing the HTML code?!

1) Can I fix this so it won't happen?
2) is there another way to be able to make certain words in the copy another color (green) without rendering the type as HTML?

Thanks in advance!

FYI: Site is: http://www.gravity-interactive.com/imec
Body copy issues are in ABOUT IMEC and SERVICES

Html Rendered Text Field - Need To Add Bullet Points
I have a text field, rendering html so I can have links etc in it, but I also need to bullet point a list in this. Is there an easy way to produce a bullet point symbol (just a mid-height dot really), some fonts have this but not in the standard characters so are hard to get at??

Not sure how to do it

Thanks

CSS For HTML Rendered Dynamic Text: Does A:hover Work?
I am embarrassed to be asking something that seems so simple but, does flash support a:hover etc. styling via html rendered dynamic text? I know that the CSS supported is fairly limited so I thought I would ask.

If not, does anybody know how to create text link rollover effects or styles in html rendered dynamic text?

Cheers

Fading Out External Aliased Html Rendered Text
Hi there,

I've run into a problem for which I was unable to find a solution.

I'm loading different swfs into the same mc on stage - and every swf has a 2 mcs - one with the jpeg and the other with the text field inside.

As it goes for text field that reside in mc of swf , properties are : Dynamic Text, Arial, character position - Normal, 16px, Multiline, rendered as HTML, Alias text , Embedded outlines for first 4 ranges.
Text is imported from *.txt file with css tags defined.
Css is defined within *.css file.

Text is aliased so that I could display certain characters " "),(-), etc..

Everything worked fine before, until iI wanted to fade out those text fields, since im fading the whole swf, between transition to another swf - so I put them into mcs and embedded fonts.
I couldn't see the text at all - so i turned off Aliasing - got text, pretty jiggy and unsharp - and loosed special characters.

I've googled and searched here - but embedding fonts was the usual answer for fading out - without mentioning aliasing, which I need for displaying special characters.

Quote:

So, is there a way to fade out dynamic htlm aliased "external" text?

Yup, importing fonts into library - http://www.actionscript.org/forums/s...d.php3?t=58059

Thnx,

Bad.

p.s. transitions (fading out) are made using mx.transitions.Tween

Mask "HTML Rendered TEXT"
This is a problem, the only sujestion I have managed to come up with is using pixel fonts.

I have created many pixel fonts, takes me a good 5hrs to make a good one

But still not an easy fast answer for something that "Should" be so simple.

I dont expect a reply as I had this topic about for a while now,

How To Display "<" In Text Rendered As HTML
Hi,
I have a text box that has text rendered for HTML tags. Now I want to dispay a text that has "<" in it. problem is that the text after this < is not being displayed as (i guess?) it mistakes it for the beginning of a html tag.
how do I escape this and display the '<' in the text box.
thanks
mav

HTML Rendered Textboes
Anyone know why i can't use an a href=whatever link on a textbox....

the Flash Help thing says "Flash preserves basic text formatting (such as font, style, color, and size) and hyperlinks in the text field"

all other things worked like color, size etc, but not the hyperlinks...

anyone know how to do it right?

btw, it doesn't seem to work cause the variables are loaded externally.

anyone know how i can loaded variables externally, while still being HTMLy rendered by flash?
[Edited by finalhit on 08-15-2002 at 08:12 PM]

Fonts - Rendered As Html?
I have a custom bitmap font (Acknowledge.ttf) I want to use in my Flash piece. The font is blurry as static text at a small size. When I put it to Dynamic Text - Rendered as Html, is looks wonderful! But obviously doesn't show up on a computer without that font installed. Is there a way I can embed that font to be used and rendered as html? Similiar to the font they have up top on the Ultrashock Navigation? Thanxx!

Var As URL In Html Rendered TextField Link
code:
var itemLink:String = productsNode[i].childNodes[6].firstChild.nodeValue;
var prodPanel = this["productPanel"+i];
prodPanel.itemName_txt.htmlText = "<a href =+itemLink+><B>"+cartArray[i].name+"</B></a>";

how can I pass in the URL from a variable like that?..is it even possible ?

Rendered HTML Link To A Different Frame?
I am filled a dynamic text box with HTML from a variable. How can I use a href within that HTML to link to another frame.

HTML Code:
<a href="gotoAndStop(54);">
eh?

I'm sure there is some easy answer like
HTML Code:
<a href="actionscript:gotoAndStop(54);">
, but please educate if you can.

Insert Form In Flash Rendered As HTML
Hello,
is there a way to insert form in flash rendered as HTML from txt file?

Disabling HTML Tags In Htmltext To Be Rendered
Hi Buddies,

Am loading some dynamic text from an xml which has html tags inside dat text. I jus loading dat specified texts into a dynamic text fields where html is enabled and assisgned as a htmlText instead of normal text.

It works fine, but the thing is, i want to disable certain html tags to be rendered but it shud display as it is as a normal texts.
Is there any way to do dat

Can The Content Of A Combobox Or List Box Be Rendered As Html?
Im wondering if the contents of a component be set to render as html. if so can you offer any ideas or suggestions?

Sending Html Text To Html Dynamic Text Field But It Dosnt Show
code: theNews = "<font color=#FF9900>"+newsRow0newsDate+"</font>"+": "+newsRow0newsStory+newline+"<font color=#FF9900>"+newsRow1newsDate+"</font>"+": "+newsRow1newsStory+newline+"<font color=#FF9900>"+newsRow2newsDate+"</font>"+": "+newsRow2newsStory+newline;
newsArea.textMain.htmlText = theNews;
trace("the news ="+theNews);

The data dosn't display but if i change the textMain.htmlText to .Text then it works, i need the formatted text.
Is ther something wrong with this?
i cant see anything wrong.

Cheers
Paul

Sending Html Text To Html Dynamic Text Field But It Dosnt Show
ActionScript Code:
theNews = "<font color=#FF9900>"+newsRow0newsDate+"</font>"+": "+newsRow0newsStory+newline+"<font color=#FF9900>"+newsRow1newsDate+"</font>"+": "+newsRow1newsStory+newline+"<font color=#FF9900>"+newsRow2newsDate+"</font>"+": "+newsRow2newsStory+newline;
newsArea.textMain.htmlText = theNews;
trace("the news ="+theNews);
The data dosn't display but if i change the textMain.htmlText to .Text then it works, i need the formatted text.
Is ther something wrong with this?
i cant see anything wrong.

Cheers
Paul

Quicktime Rendered...?
I have a quicktime movie as a part of my flash project but when I render it as a flash movie, (because I have a button and the button doesn't seem to work as a gif render), the button works and takes me to where it should, however the quicktime file doesn't want to show itself. The other parts of the render appear, the bitmap parts. How can I get the quicktime movie to render in the .swf format with a working button?
Thx in advance...
Matthew

Observation On Max # Of Layers Rendered -
Anyone else run into this, and is there a fix?

It seems you can have as many layers as you wish (...Don't know what the absolute max limit is,...anyone?? )... For example, I have 17 now in a 3D project I'm doin'....However, it would appear you can only have a "stack" of 12 layers rendered at any one frame number....As soon as you add that 13th frame on top, Flash stops rendering frames off the bottom.

You can have blank frames within the "stack"....but if you have more than 12 frames in the stack that all have content...The bottom is not drawn....

As soon as you turn off any of the extra frames to reduce the total number to 12, then they'll all render,.....But anything after 12 and you start losing stuff off the bottom...

Any comments, guys?.....Was this written in the user manual & I glossed over it.... ??

XML + XSLT Rendered In Textfield Is This Possible?
Is it possible to load an XML file with XSLT in a dynamic text field and render those XSLT in the textfield? Thanks!

New Editing To Code Is Not Rendered?
I am loading an swf file and as soon as it's properties and methods are available to me, I modify the contents of the swf through the codes in the class.

However, whenever I edit my codes, the changes are not shown the next time I compile my code. My codes are executed but the output is a result of the previous codes...the new code changes are not being rendered.

I'd have to close and reopen flash many times before my new codes gets rendered. Any idea why this is happening? It seems like flash is running off from an older copy of my files inside its cache?? Anyone encountered this problem?

Controlling When Displayobjects Are Rendered
Hi

I want to change the current frame of a movie clip to a frame containing a child movie clip instance. I then want to apply colors to the child (by setting the color transform of the child).

This all works fine, except that there are some annoying color flickering. The child on the frame is white, but I want to color it red. What happens is that for a short but noticeable period of time the white color can be seen before the red color is applied.

So I would like to ask whether it is possbile to disable and enable the redering/painting/drawing of a movieclip/displayobject. Kind of like using the BeginUpdate and EndUpdate methods in WinForms .Net programming ( if any isfamiliar with that).

Best Regards Stig.

Handling Rendered DataGrid...Any Help....?
Hi...
Guys.
This is my first ever post in this forum so I'm hopeful that my problem will be solved...
I have rendered the datagrid..
In that Datagrid the rendered cell contain MovieClip & textBox..Now I wan't to handle this rendered cell so if any one has done this help me out....
Thanks.

Embed Video Rendered With DIVX?
Hi, I have a small delema. I am importing video into flash mx and for the first half of movies I used a standard codec to compress it like indeo5. the last half i used the Divx codec since it cut my file size in half and looked even better. the problem i am having is that when i import the avi into flah then export as swf, the file size is doubling. I tried it with the avi's that were compressed with the indeo5 codec and when it exports it usually is smaller on export to swf, but the avi's that i used the divx is almost doubling why is that or is it something else????

any ideas would be great

Thanks
Josh

Discrepancies In Rendered Size & Speed?
Hi all,

Excuse the newbie-ness of this question....

I've just started dabbling with Flash 5 and am wondering why the
Published/ Exported version of my *.FLA scales down in size, and runs
a little slower.

I've checked & re-checked the Publish settings, and they're exactly as
I'd expect them to be (eg: 100% x 100%, etc).

Is this just one of those things with Flash 5, or is there a
workaround?

Many thanks in advance,

Jason Paris

Flash Menu Rendered From An Xml File
I must create a flash menu that retrive its contents from a content management system.
In the xml file thats are rendered when its requested sets a flag named itsopen to true, and thats is how deep the menu should open by default.

U can se som image files and the xml file at this location: http://dev.bestla.dynalias.net/flash...flashmenu.html.

/
Tommy

Papervision: Does An Object Get Rendered And Uses Processing
My scene is a carrousel and it contains too many objects in view of the camera. I will move the camera so that onlt a few bjects are in the sight line of the camera. Will this reduce the procesing that takes place? I would like to cull the objects which are outside of the view of the camera without being as brutal as to 'removeChild' them from the scene. How could I achieve a more efficient scene, or can someone clarify how much of the scene is processed outside of the cameras view? Many thanks in advance.

Cannot Remove Rendered Xml Plus Scroll Advice
Howdi partners

I want to update a list of links in xml, the user clicks a button on a seperate swf and I have a function inside a local connection listener that loads a new xml file. I have experimented with delete but this doesn't work, what happens is the new links are added to the top of the list of existing links.

Here is the code ...

ActionScript Code:
myReceiving_lc = new LocalConnection()
myReceiving_lc.connect("_deepLinksConnection")
myReceiving_lc.recievedValue = function(broadcast_id)
{
broadcast = broadcast_id;
delete _root.linksXML;

var linksXML = new XML();
linksXML.ignoreWhite = true;
linksXML.load('http://www.c4l.com/iap?xml=<request><method>getDeepLinks</method><parameter%20name="folderId"><value>'+broadcast+'</value></parameter><format>flash</format></request>');
linksXML.onLoad = checkLoading;

var item_spacing = 28;

function checkLoading(success) {
if (success == true) {
var rootNode = linksXML.firstChild;
var total = rootNode.firstChild.childNodes.length;
trace(total);
for(var i = 0; i < rootNode.firstChild.childNodes.length; i++) {
var theURL = rootNode.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.url;
trace(i)
var item_mc = _root.menu_mc.attachMovie("menu_item","item"+i, i);
item_mc._y = i * item_spacing;
item_mc.url_txt.text = theURL;
item_mc.main_btn.onRelease = function()
{
getURL(this._parent.url_txt.text, "floater");
};
}
}
}
}

Also, another thing I want to do but not too sure about is to scroll the list of urls - any tips on this would be welcomed with open arms

Font Used In Masked Component Is Not Rendered
Hi,

I developed a formular using components (Button and List), that formular is masked and all the fonts used used by my components are not displayed.
When removing the mask, the component's titles are displayiing properly.

How can I render the font of my components when masked?

Is there a trick?

Thanks

Target Movieclip That Isn't Rendered In First Frame
Hi!

I have a movie with a button that appears in the frame 35. What is the best practice to target the button?

This is my first attempt (actually is working but I'm not sure this is the right way):

Code:
var myTimeline:MovieClip = this;

myTimeline.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, addButtonActions, false, 0, true);

function addButtonActions(event:Event):void{
if (myTimeline.currentFrame == 36){
my_button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, buttonFunction);
}}

function buttonFunction(event:Event) {
trace("Do Something");
}

Embedded .swf File Rendered Too Small
I have a .swf file that is going in the web page for the logo. It is supposed to be 610px wide and 81px in height when rendered in the HTML. The actual .swf file, when viewed standalone, appears much larger than that - but I presume I should be able to just set its rendered / desired dimensions when I embed it in the HTML, as usual.

The odd thing is that the .swf, when embedded and viewed in the web page, is displayed extremely small.

I have checked my code - the width and height are declared properly.

I am embedding the .swf using SWFObject, but the same problem occurs if I use the Flash Satay method (alistapart.com article). Here are code snippets showing both versions:

The SWFObject embedding method:

Code:
IN THE HEAD:
<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>

IN THE BODY:
<div id="flash-logo">
<p>Requires Flash player and Javascript.</p> 
<script type="text/javascript">
// <![CDATA[
var so = new SWFObject( "logo.swf", "logo", "610", "81", "9", "#000000" );
so.addParam( "wmode", "transparent" );
so.write( "flash-logo" );
// ]]>
</script>
</div>
That's just the HTML obviously - the imported JS is the standard SWFObject library.

And the Satay method to embed:

Code:
<div id="flash-logo">
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="width:610px; height:81px;" data="logo.swf">
<param name="movie" value="logo.swf">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent"><a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflash/">Requires Flash player</a> 
</object>
</div>

Now both methods work correctly with embedding and resizing other flash content on the same page. So there is something wrong with this particular embedding instance. Furthermore, the problem .swf appears small in all browsers (IE6+, Opera, Firefox, etc).

I am not at all a Flash pro. This .swf was provided to me by the client. Does the problem as described above sound like it is not a embedding error but is an issue caused by the .swf itself?

Papervision: Does An Object Get Rendered And Uses Processing
My scene is a carrousel and it contains too many objects in view of the camera. I will move the camera so that only a few objects are in the sight line of the camera. Will this reduce the processing that takes place? I would like to cull the objects which are outside of the view of the camera without being as brutal as to 'removeChild' them from the scene. How could I achieve a more efficient scene, or can someone clarify how much of the scene is processed outside of the cameras view? Many thanks in advance.

Advanced Help Required Deleting A Rendered Object
Hi,

I've got an object that I've got drawn on stage by action script. How can I delete it ?

I've created it using:

obj = Scene.createEmptyMovieClip(objtype+"_"+this[objtype+"s"], lines+curves+surfaces);
obj.pointarray = pointarray;
obj.lineweight = lineweight;
obj.linecolour = linecolour;
obj.linealpha = linealpha;
obj.fillcolour = fillcolour;
obj.fillalpha = fillalpha;;

please help!! I need to totally remove it then re-initialise it so it starts from scratch....

I can provide more code if required...

Thanks so much in advance,

SS