Dynamic Text Styling

I am using a dynamic text field with some text inside it. I
would like to make some headings within the text BOLD and a
different Colour then the rest of the text. Is this possible? I am
also scrolling the text field using the generic scroll bar.
Thank You.

There is an article about support for CSS inside a Flash
movie here:
http://www.whatdoiknow.org/archives/001181.shtml
It's for MX2004, but I'm sure some of it will still be
relevant. You might also search the Flash Help for "CSS" and see if
you can find something.

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Help with dynamic text and and css !

My second question of the day.
I'm trying to build a feature in my app in which the user can
hide/reveal
bolding and or
italics and or
underlining. The text is being loaded in from an xml file
and I was thinking about styling it with css in order to get the
underlining. My problem is that the only way I can think about
pulling this off is to have a css style sheet that has a defined
bold,italic and underline class defined- - then another one that
just has a italic and underline class defined -- then another one
that has just a bold and underline class defined . . . and so on
and so on. You can see why I would prefer a much more streamlined
system. Unfortunately my experience with dynamic text styling is
somewhat limited. Hopefully someone can help me out here.

Perfect. I knew it was some little snippet that I was
forgetting. I made a temporary fix of creating a 0% alpha box over
the button like a fake click area above the text, and that worked
but I know that it was a half-arsed way of working around it.
Thanks.

Styling dynamic text

I have an empty text field that will be filled with some dynamic text depending on what random number is rolled. How can I make just one word in one of those sentences italicized? I don't see any obvious ways to do it. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

One way would be to assign the text to the textfield using its htmlText property, where you wrap italics ( <i> </i> ) tags around the portion you want italicized.
Another way would be to use the setTextFormat method of the TextField class which allows you to specify the the start and end index for the text to which to assign the format.

Dynamic text (Titles/Section titles)

Hi,
I'm diving into Keynote for the first time and am struggling with trying to figure out how to create dynamic text within my masters.
I'd like to be able to have the user enter the title of the presentation on their title slide (using the title master) and then have that title propagate through the other slides in the footer of the section/content slides as meta data.
Is there a solution for how to do this? Essentially, I just need to flag the text box with a variable and then repurpose that variable in a differently styled text box on other slides.
Thanks in advance for any help!

Keynote and PowerPoint are both presentation packages; however, they're not identical, and offer different feature sets. If you can't live without a feature that PPT offers but Keynote doesn't, use PPT. However, in my experience most of the things that PPT will do can be done in Keynote - it's just a matter of figuring out how.
I've been using Keynote (various versions) for several years, after having used PPT for several years. Yes, I've found things that Keynote didn't do that I was used to being able to do in PPT, but the only one that I couldn't find a workaround for was motion-path animation, and it appeared as a Build option ("Action") in Keynote '08.
If there is a feature you would like to see in Keynote, you can always use the "Provide Keynote Feedback" link in the "Keynote" menu to send you ideas to Apple. There's no guarantee that your feature will appear, but that's the way to let Apple know that you would like to see something changed.
As for your original problem, one simple way to propogate the title information in the footers of the other slides is to add a small text box to the master(s) used for the other slides and copy the title into it. No, it's not automatic, and if you change the title you must also change the text box on the master(s), but it's a workaround.
There is definitely a non-flat learning curve associated with the transition from PPT to Keynote, but once you pick up some familiarity with Keynote, you may find it's much more intuitive to use.

External Embedded Fonts, Dynamic Text Fields, Latest?

Hi all,
I'm stuck in Flash8 land. Mostly because I use mProjector and
MDM Zinc to extend flash projectors and neither support AS3
correctly to date. That said..
Is a Flash8 SWF capable of using fonts embedded in "other"
SWFs? I realize this is an ongoing difficulty and a well known area
of confusion and well, I'm confused. All the attempts I've made so
far in linking have succeeded or failed in various ways, but never
fully work.
What I'd love to do is use dynamic text fields populated by
data from a database (or XML file), with CSS styling, using fonts
that are embedded in a 'master font SWF'. (and I'd like ice cream
with that too!)
I import fonts into, say, 'shared.fla'. I set them all up for
exporting via linkage (to shared.swf). I open up my other FLAs
(say, main.fla) and I drag the fonts from the shared.fla library
into main.fla's library. In looking at the linkage, I see it
properly set it to Import for Runtime Sharing (shared.swf). I can
see the font available in the main.fla font list and can select it
and use it just fine. I have to set the dynamic text field to embed
fonts to actually see them (and also
myTextField.setStyle("embedFonts",true)).
Now all that works well and fine, but the kicker is when I
want CSS to style my text. If I specify a embedded font linkage
identifyer in CSS, the text disappears. i.e. I load 'style.css' and
I have h1 { font-family: someEmbeddedFont; }, the <h1> text
will now disappear.
Any clues in how I can specify a font to use in CSS that's
embedded so it'll work, WITHOUT This font needed to be embedded in
the actual library (as in, not a linked asset)? Because it works
fine if I embed the font into every single SWF. But when I try to
use it as a shared asset, this doesn't work.
Any ideas on how someone can achieve this?
This is so I can changed my shared.swf and supply all new
fonts with the same linkage identifiers and change the font in a
whole project without re-exporting any other SWFs.
Thanks for any info!

I guess it's amazing but I honestly, wholly cannot get this
to work.
I made a new AS2 Flash 8 FLA (Forte.fla) with only the Forte
font with a size of 22 in the library. The name of the library
element was Forte. The linkage was set to "Export for Actionscript"
and "Export in first frame".
I made another FLA (main.fla) Flash8 AS2. In actionscript I
created an empty movie clip named "Asset_Forte" at the next highest
depth and Asset_Forte.loadMovie("Forte.swf"). I also made a dynamic
text field on the stage of this main.fla document and set it to
Arial 22pt (no bold or italics, etc). I did not embed anything into
it.
I made a TextTormat object (my_fmt) and set my_fmt.font =
"Forte";. I put some text in the dynamic text field to start so I
just applied the formatting (status_text.setTextFormat(my_fmt);).
This did not work. I started adjusting random things like
naming the font in the Forte.swf library to Forte22 and tried
my_fmt.font = "Forte22";. That didn't work.
I adjusted the linkage to "Export for runtime sharing" and
specified Forte.swf as the SWF to share from. This did not work.
I then dragged the font from the Forte.fla's library (while
"Export for runtime sharing" was enabled) into the library of
main.fla. I checked the link and it was proper, "Import for runtime
sharing, Forte.swf". I used both linkage attempts again (Forte and
Forte22) with my_fmt.font and neither worked.
Would it be possible at all to get a couple FLAs from you
that examplifies how you do this particular trick? I can't seem to
get the settings right. I would be indebted to you!

Displaying the result of a calculation in a dynamic text box

Hi folks,
I'm having a very minor issue here (operator error, I'm sure ). With the help of some folks here, I've created a series of calculations, and I've got that part down. Now, I just need it to show up in the movie.
I've created the dynamic text box in Flash (CS3), but when I hit test, it won't show up.
After all the calculations, I should have a figure that I call totalmoney. My dynamic text box is called total. The user doesn't need to hit anything for it to appear. It just appears as part of the movie.
Here's my code:
stop();
var startDate:Date = new Date(2010,0,12); // use your startyear, startmonth, startdate in the new Date() parameters.
var currentDate:Date = new Date(); // assuming user's clock is correct and in your timezone. else use server date/time.
var numberOfSeconds:Number = (currentDate.getTime()-startDate.getTime())/1000;
var interest:Number = (numberOfSeconds*0.74356);
var totalmoney:Number = (interest+15,000,000);
function displaytotal(evt:TextEvent):void {
total.text = "totalmoney";
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Napo

You didn't have to bury any of the calculations in the function--leaving it as you had it is better. They could remain where they a=werew, and you'll probably find you want them outside it if you have other plans for using them. If left inside, they only have scope inside. In the programming world, it's good to think of functions as things that do one thing and one thing only (though it isn't often practiced that way)--it's called modular design.
When you place an event as an argument for a function, it typically means that there is an event listener that initiates the call to the function. If you work with buttons you'll see what I mean. But if the plan is to create your own call to a function when you desire it as such, not have it driven by an event listener, then you don't need to pass any event to it, though you may pass some other type of variable to it if need be.
For instance, what you have now will call the function without an argument because the function has the value built into its code....
displaytotal();
But you could also make the function a little more generic and set it up to recieve the value instead as an argument...
function displaytotal(amt:Number):void {
total.text = String(amt); // an earlier error of mine
displaytotal(totalmoney);
That would make your function a little more useful. Now it could be used to display other Number variables as well.
// my earlier error was that a textfield displays text, so you need to convert the Number value to s String.
Hope I'm not confusing you.

Dynamic Text Field is not displaying foreign characters... HELP!

I have a dynamic text field that is not displaying foreign characters properly. They appear as boxes.
Here's what I've tried.
Under properties for the text field, I clicked on the embed characters button. In there, I pasted all the special characters I would need and clicked okay. Shouldn't this be enough for the text to display properly? What am I missing? Please help...

More info: I'm noticing that in the actual dynamic text field in my .FLA file, if I type a foreign character like é, it pops up as a block. My family font is set to New Caledonia... is it possible that New Caledonia doesn't have those particular glyphs? The thing that doesn't make sense to me though is, last year when I made this card, it worked fine with New Caledonia... Any help is greatly appreciated!!

EDGE and HTML dynamic text in a "box" with scroll bar

I'm new to EDGE, a win7pro master collection cs5.5 suite owner. I'm mainly in the Film/Video post production field (mostly AE, PPro, Pshop, IA) but have been branching into web design the last couple of years. I use Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash. While I'm a expert user with all the Film/video apps, I would say I only have intermediate ability with the web apps. While I understand a lot of programing logic bulding blocks I'm not a coder.
So since we're told "flash is dead", my interest in Edge is to try to do some of the things that I can currently do in flash in EDGE. I was excited when Edge first came out but lost interest when it became obvious that Adobe was not going to offer Edge and Muse to "suite owners" but only in their force feeding of the "Cloud". Better known as the "golden goose" for adobe stockholders and a never ending perpetual hole in the pocket for users. Anyway....
I spent the last couple of days doing some of the tuts and messing with the UI. It's matured a lot since I was here last.
I've been working on a flash site for a sports team where one of the pages is a player profile page where college recuriters and other interested parties can view recuriting relavent info/stats about players. This is how it works. While on the "Team" page a users clicks on a button labled "Player Profiles" . (Animation) A "page" flies in and unfurls from the upper right corner (3d page flips effect created in AE played by flash as a frame SEQ). Once it lands filling most of the center of the screen there is a bright flash. As the brightness fades we see the "page" is a bordered box with a BG image of a ball field(End). (Animation) from behind the border in fly small pictures (player head shots with name and jersey number). They stream in and form a circle like a wagon train and the team logo zooms up from infinity to the center of the circle(End). As the user mouses over a player's pic it zooms up a little and gets brighter (like mouseover image nav thumbs for a image slider). If the user clicks on a player's head shot it flips over and scales up to become a text box with a scrollbar. The content of the box is a mix of images, static and dynamic text fields populated from data in an "player info data base" XML file, and some hyperlinks. It's all kept updated dynamicaly with current stats, info and images from the XML file. There is also a "PDF" button that allows the user to open/save/print a PDF of the player's profile (the PDF's are static files for now but the choice of which pdf to retrive is dynamicaly supplied via the XML file.
So.... Is Edge now able to do something like this? Would it need to be a collection of small animations? could these be "assembled" and connected as an asset in dreamweaver ?
I thought I would approach this from the end (ie click on an image and display a box with dynamic TEXT fileds. ) since that is the most important part, ie displaying the dynamicaly updated profile info. Sooooo....
Can Edge display a scrolling text box with Images, static text, and html dynamic text in it??
Joel

The code is in composition ready. Click the filled {}

How to use same dynamic text, multiple times in a Movie

FLASH CS5.5
How can a dynamic text field be used multiple times, on any
frame, in any new layer during a Movie?
~~
A number of unique dynamic text fields are being used.
The intent is to use them each, many times during a Movie.
(i.e. a users first name)
They are successfully being "ExternalInterfaced" from a PDF form field.
(the SWF is displayed within the PDF as a RMA)
This all works well, IF I only use one instance of the dynamic text field.
(one use of each unique text field)
If I try and use that same dynamic text field, again, in a new layer, later in the SWF,
all of that said, duplicate dynamic text fields do not display.
~~
Stumped!!!
Thanks in advance for your advice / comments!
D-

Thanks Ned,
I always welcome learning something new.
I did not know creating a new keyframe,
creates a new instance.
Yes, I had used the same dynamic text field instance name in
numerous, new layers (great observation).
With the objective to display the User's name throughout
the timeline (on and off)...
I'll attempt to paraphrase your solution;
Use a single layer to display the dynamic text field.
Extend this layer's timeline throughout the movie, or end use of the dynamic text field.
Help with this one ??
Set the visible properties to true or false as need through out the timeline.
( Does require an AS3 ? )
I'll give that a try.....
~~
Side of effect of using the above solution;
The SWF in it's attempted state, uses the dynamic text field instance, in
different places, different text sizes, on the stage, throughout the Movie.
(i.e. the User's first name appears in different sentences...)
Per the solution above,
I believe I will be limited to One location, one format setting.
Is this assumption correct?
I can make this work from a display / Movie point of view.
However, your first VAR concept, noted above, might be
worth exploring should more flexibility be required.
Thanks for making the time to coach...
D-

How do I make dynamic text look static while the HMTL tagging is enabled?

Hi all,
I am using flash 8 with AS 2.0.
I have a dynamic text field where I am setting it's text value through a variable. Now, I need this dynamic text field content to look like static font on runtime. I tried embedding the text field but that makes my file so heavy and most importantly, it disables the HTML tagging on the text field.
Please suggest me on how to make a dynamic text field content look static on runtime while the HTML tagging is enabled and working fine.
Thanks.

I am sorry. But the attachment was not intended for what you
thought my friend.
It was there so that there are no confusions for what I mean by look of dynamic and static text fields.

How do I embed multiple font outlines in dynamic text field

Can anyone tell me how I can embed multiple font outlines in
Flash MX so I can get smooth text in a dynamic
text frame? I want to use Regular, bold and italic in various
parts of the text.
I was using the Character button in the properties manager
and tried to include all Characters. That does not work.
In the Properties manager I can choose Bold and/or Italic.
But it becomes a universal setting that overrides my HTML tags in
my external txt file that I am importing. I dont want all my text
to be bold.
If I dont select them in the properties, however, Flash will
not embed the font that it needs.
Is there a different way to embed fonts other than under the
Character Tab?
I tried to import fonts to the library, but can not select
them.
Your help would really be appreciated.
Sincerely,
ggaarde

ggaarde wrote:
> Thanks Urami
> Tried your method and it does not work for me.
> I put 3 dynamic text fields in the first frame of the
movie. Set them up to
> where one is regular, one is bold and one is italic
Helvetica.
Weird, it works for me on first go, always had in fact :)
Show you an example, try to compare to your file see if you
missed anything accidentally.
http://flashfugitive.com/stuff/font/text.swf
text file
http://flashfugitive.com/stuff/font/text.txt
fla
http://flashfugitive.com/stuff/font/text.fla
Best Regards
Urami
<urami>
If you want to mail me - DO NOT LAUGH AT MY ADDRESS
</urami>

Is there a way to list all the file names (automatically) in a folder to dynamic text box?

Hi,
I would like to know whether FLASH AS3 has some option to get all the files names from a folder specified and show it in a dynamic text box? Whenever some new files added to this folder it should update the list accordingly.
Thanks for any information in this regard.

Not particularly experienced in this field myself, but I've found its just easier to implement an XML file which lists the contents of the folder. It just means that when you upload a new file you have to add it to the list in the xml file also. No real hardship once you figure out the mechanics of it

Text jumps after embedding font in dynamic text field!

Hi
this is driving me mad
Im using a standard font (Gotham rounded) within a dynamic text field. As soon as I embed the numerals within this text field the text lowers within the text field. Double clicking the field then renders the text higher up! It seems that the height it shows when I double click is the height it compiles at.
The other strange and annoying thing is that my colleague working on the same project is using the exact same font and same file but this doesnt happen to him and so the font redners out differently when he compiles!
Could anybody please help me sort this problem out as its reeeeally annoying
many thanks!
Nick

nobody any ideas?!

How can I load a .TXT file into a dynamic text box?

I am sure that many people know how to load a .txt file into
a dynamic text box. But I do not. I want to be able to reference a
txt file from the server into the text box. So that when I change
the text file it changes in the flash movie without even editing
the flash file itself. Thank you.

http://www.oman3d.com/tutorials/flash/loading_external_text_bc/
I think this is the simplest way to go :)

Linking a class to a dynamic text field to load XML data.

Hi,
I'm quite new to ActionScript and would be grateful for any help here.
I want to load text into a dynamic text field (called 'about_tab') using a class depending on the language selected (by clicking on a flag icon) by the user.
I managed to get this to work when the ActionScript was written directly in the timeline, but am having problems with doing the same thing via a class.
This is my class file:
package
import flash.display.SimpleButton;
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.events.Event;
public class ChangeLang extends SimpleButton
public function ChangeLang()
addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, switchLang);
trace("ChangeLang class working");
public function switchLang(event:MouseEvent):void
var lang = event.target.name;
var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest("languages/"+lang+".xml");
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var substance:XML;
function xmlLoaded(event:Event):void
trace("function xmlLoaded is running");
substance = new XML(loader.data);
about_tab.text = substance.about_lbl;
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, xmlLoaded);
loader.load(req);
Here's one of my XML files (the other is the same except "About" is written in German):
<substance>
<about_lbl>About</about_lbl>
</substance>
When I run it, it returns my trace statements that the class ChangeLang and the function xmlLoaded are running, but no text appears in the dynamic text field (I should/want to see the word 'About'). I get this error message:
1120: Access of undefined property about_tab
The problem, I'm guessing, is in the part in red in my code. I think I need to target the text field in the display list by creating a reference to it. If so, could someonw point out how I do this, or perhaps a tutorial that would help. I've tried adding the word stage (i.e.,stage.about_tab.text = substance.about_lbl; ) but it still doesn't connect. I guess there's something really simple I'm missing, so I apologize if this comes across as a stupid question
Thanks for any help.

Hello flashrocket!
I'm also new to AS3 and I've just started using external classes and I think I know what you should do to put your code to work.
Instead of using the text field you created inside your flash file, why don't you use the "TextField" class to create an instance of this object? It's the exact same thing as when you create and instantiate a new text field inside Flash.
First, import flash.text.*; (includes classes like TextField, TextFieldAutoSize, TextFormat, TextFormatAlign, etc)
Than you just have to create a var like
public var about_tab : TextField;
or
public var about_tab : TextField = new TextField();
then, to adjust the properties of this tab you use dotsyntax as if it where on your stage like:
about_tab.x = 50; about_tab.alpha = .5; etc...
you can even create a function to "config your textField"
          private function createAndConfigTextField() : void {
               about_tab = new TextField(); //you only need this line if you
          // only typed something like "public var about_tab:TextField;
          // if instead you used "public var about_tab:TextField = new TextField(); outside
          // this function, just skip this first line because you already have an instance of
          // text field named "about_tab"...
                        about_tab.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.CENTER;
               about_tab.background = true;
               about_tab.border = true;
               var aboutTextFormat : TextFormat = new TextFormat();
               format.font = "Arial";
               format.color = 0x000000;
               format.size = 11;
               format.bold = true;
               format.align = TextFormatAlign.CENTER;
               about_tab.defaultTextFormat = aboutTextFormat;
               addChild(about_tab);
This is just an example of what you can do... I hope you get it... let me know if you have any doubt...

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