Dynamic Text keeps resetting

I have 5 dynamic text fields. They are all getting their text
property set in a function when the movie starts. I have a button
on frame 2 which makes it change to frame 3. When the frame changes
all the text fields get set back to their original value.
What am I doing wrong?
Also, are there any examples of using the SeekBar component
with Sound?
Thanks,
Joe

You must have a keyframe on the layer containing the text
fields... get rid
of it.
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import com.google.maps.Map;
import com.google.maps.MapEvent;
import com.google.maps.MapType;
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import com.google.maps.overlays.GroundOverlayOptions;
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 scrollPane.setSize(300,200);
 scrollPaneContent.scrollPaneText.htmlText=""+calledMarkerDescription;
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 scrollPane.setSize(300,275);
 scrollPaneContent.scrollPaneText.htmlText=""+calledMarkerDescription+" ";
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btn8.onPress = function () {
theCode.text += "8";
btn9.onPress = function () {
theCode.text += "9";
btn0.onPress = function () {
theCode.text += "0";
okButton.onPress = function () {
theCode.text = "Cooking";
cancel.onPress = function () {
theCode.text = "2 : 34";
addmore.onPress = function() {
theCode.text = theCode.text + 2;

Ok,
Here is what I have been trying, seen below, following what
Don mentioned. However, I get an error if I keep the " " around the
0 in the last bit of code. And in reference to my first post, how
do I expand the code to satisfy those questions. I'll keep trying!
btn0.theNumber.text = "0";
btn1.theNumber.text = "1";
var numZero:Number = 0;
var numOne:Number = 1;
var numTwo:Number = 2;
var numThree:Number = 3;
var numFour:Number = 4;
var numFive:Number = 5;
var numSix:Number = 6;
var numSeven:Number = 7;
var numEight:Number = 8;
var numNine:Number = 9;
btn0.onPress = function () {
theTime.text = numZero
btn1.onPress = function () {
theTime.text = numOne
if(numZero <10){
numZero = "0" + numZero
**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=actions, frame=1:Line 27: Type
mismatch in assignment statement: found String where Number is
required.
numZero = "0" + numZero
Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1

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I am creating a Flash website and have managed to get the default Flash scroll bar to work with some Dynamic Text. As I have alot of textual content I want to make it look a little more interesting and appealing by editing in - some in bold, some bullet points, some smaller text/different colours etc...
However, if I change any settings such as the desired ones above, the whole content changes! I cant split it up because I would lose the scrolling bar.
Is there any way I can get around this problem? Keep my scrolling bar but add some interest to my textual content?
Help would be much appriciated - even though it is very late now ha-ha
Regards,
Kyle Meredith
(CS4 if it makes any difference?)

Thank you very much for your help - you have helped me out twice tonight ha-ha. Thank you.
Is there anywhere I can find out about Stylesheet Class? I really do need the content varying in styles - otherwise it is just so unattractive and just doesn't look right.
Or would you advice I staid away from it for a while - until I actually get some Flash skill behind me?
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Im am currently working on a flash website and have succeeded
in making a scrolling text area... the thing is the text is dynamic
and you can't change like one word into one specific font... i've
been also trying to link this certain word to a different frame in
the scrolling text area but i can't! also i want to make an image
appear when you "mouse over" a certain word in this dynamic text
area. Any help would be much appreciated thank you.

Hi kglad,
Thank you for the note. I have gone over the Actionscript and
can find no obvious flaw. Can you tell me how a property might be
assigned before the text is loaded? Could network traffic affect
this?
I did some tests during peak usage times.
The tests of the project seem to indicate that once the error
was encountered and the content reloaded (keeping the same session)
that the error would not reoccur. Closing the session and browser
and er-entering resulted in no error.
However, closing the session then deleting cookies and/or
temporary internet files then starting a new session caused the
problem to reoccur. I could delete just the cookies and the problem
would reoccur. I could delete just the temporary internet files and
the problem would reoccur.
Again, the error, when it does occur, seems to affect some
text fields more than others and never consistantly. Its a moving
target.
Thank you for your earlier clue.
Tim

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Hi Gang,
I've just written a quick mail form in Flash8Pro/PHP - the
user enters their contact details & a message, and it sends it
off to the specified email address.
The feature works fine for the most part, but there's one
little problem. The dynamic text field that confirms the message
has been sent successfully isn't working properly. I'm using the
following php code to send dynamic text back to the flash document
saying the message has gone through OK:
print "sendresult=Message Sent!";
where sendresult is the name of the dynamic text field's
variable.
The strange thing is that the code works fine if the
sendresult dynamic text field is inserted into the main flash
document. It's only when I put the sendresult field into the movie
clip that holds the flash mail form (including the button with the
loadvariablesnum command), that the text won't update at all. I've
tried:
print "_root.enquirypage.sendresult=Data Sent!"
and
print "enquirypage.sendresult=Data Sent!", but neither of
those make any difference.
Any suggestions? Anybody know what's causing this problem?
Any help would be very very appreciated - I know I could probably
get around this by just setting the visibility of the dynamic text
field on & off when necessary and keeping it in the main flash
doc, but I'll be using this feature quite a lot and I'd really like
a proper/versatile solution. In case it's necessary, the
actionscript that sends the message off to the php is just:
loadVariablesNum ("form.php", 0, "POST");
Many thanks in advance gang,
- Jay

Your code loadVariablesNum ("form.php", 0, "POST"); will load
your variable sendresult in level 0 - the main timeline. If you put
the text field inside a movie clip it expects a local variable in
that movie clip.
Use _level0.sendresult or _root.sendresult as the dynamic
field's variable.
Or, instead of loadVariablesNum you could use loadVariables,
like this:
_root.enquirypage.loadVariables("form.php", "POST");
or, if you make the call from a button inside the movie clip:
this.loadVariables("form.php", "POST");
/uamg

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