Keeping text formatted in Windows
I put up a new site today and realized that 50% of my text changed it's formatting if viewed on a PC. Any suggestions for keeping it formatted across both platforms? I was using text choices that were already used in places on the "Road Trip" templates.
I don't think it works with some fonts. I added the shadow to Dakota handwriting and it did not show up as that font on the windows pcs. It is really weird because I have used the font in other areas of the Road Trip template where it already existed in the sample pages and that area reads as Dakota on the windows machines. Go figure?
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Hello fellas.
Is there any way to keep the text formatting when I paste it
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Every time I attempt it - dreamweaver gives me message "
making this change would require code change which is locked by a
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my question is this:
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The site use to work fine. I have lately updated to Snow Leopard which probably doesn't have a thing to do with it just to mention it.
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package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFormat;
import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
import flash.events.Event;
import fl.controls.RadioButton;
import fl.controls.RadioButtonGroup;
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private var question:String;
private var questionField:TextField;
private var choices:Array;
private var theCorrectAnswer:int;
private var theUserAnswer:int;
//variables for positioning:
private var questionX:int = 25;
private var questionY:int = 150;
private var answerX:int = 25;
private var answerY:int = 200;
private var spacing:int = 25;
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questionField.width = 775;
questionField.wordWrap = true;
questionField.multiline = true;
questionField.text = question;
//trace (questionField.width);
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questionField.x = questionX;
questionField.y = questionY;
addChild(questionField);
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txtFmt.font = "Arial";
txtFmt.blockIndent = 2;
txtFmt.color = 0x000000;
txtFmt.size = 11;
txtFmt.leading = 4;
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myGroup.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, changeHandler);
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var rb:RadioButton = new RadioButton();
rb.setStyle("textFormat", txtFmt);
rb.textField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
rb.label = choices[i];
rb.group = myGroup;
rb.value = i + 1;
rb.x = answerX;
rb.y = questionY + questionField.height + 25 + (i * spacing);
addChild(rb);
private function changeHandler(event:Event) {
theUserAnswer = event.target.selectedData;
public function get correctAnswer():int {
return theCorrectAnswer;
public function get userAnswer():int {
return theUserAnswer;
As you can see, I managed to get the text field style of the radio buttons to use "txtFmt" as the style:
rb.setStyle("textFormat", txtFmt);
The issue:
If I add:
rb.textField.width = 352;
rb.textField.height = 60;
rb.textField.multiline = rb.textField.wordWrap = true;
inside the "for loop" that creates the radio button, it just makes my text go all crazy! It only extends the text about 30 pixels after the radio button and then starts wrapping it, making it all stack on top of each other. How can I make it create the radio button, show the text on the text field, wrap around once it reached the edge of the stage and the continue the next button.
thank you in advanced,
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package {
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import flash.text.TextFormat;
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import fl.controls.RadioButtonGroup;
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private var question:String;
private var questionField:TextField;
private var choices:Array;
private var theCorrectAnswer:int;
private var theUserAnswer:int;
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private var questionY:int = 150;
private var answerX:int = 25;
private var answerY:int = 200;
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txtFmt.font = "Arial";
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package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import fl.controls.Button;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
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private var currentIndex:int = 0;
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private var nextButton:Button;
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public function QuizApp() {
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1,
"Government auditors may be subject to a variety or range of audit standards.",
"Government auditors are not subject to audit standards for some types of work.",
"If the audit organization follows The Institute of Internal Auditors’ (IIA’s) International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing (Standards), those Standards prevail over laws and regulations.",
"Different sets of audit standards that might be followed have many similarities."));
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nextButton.label = "Next";
nextButton.x = prevButton.x + prevButton.width + 40;
nextButton.y = yPosition;
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addChild(nextButton);
finishButton = new Button();
finishButton.label = "Finish";
finishButton.x = nextButton.x + nextButton.width + 40;
finishButton.y = yPosition;
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addChild(finishButton);
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status = new TextField();
status.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
status.y = stage.stageHeight - 80;
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status.x = (stage.stageWidth / 5) - (status.width / 5);
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for(var i:int = 0; i < quizQuestions.length; i++) {
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quizQuestions[i].visible = false;
private function firstQuestion() {
currentQuestion = quizQuestions[0];
currentQuestion.visible = true;
private function prevHandler(event:MouseEvent) {
showMessage("");
if(currentIndex > 0) {
currentQuestion.visible = false;
currentIndex--;
currentQuestion = quizQuestions[currentIndex];
currentQuestion.visible = true;
} else {
showMessage("This is the first question, there are no previous ones");
private function nextHandler(event:MouseEvent) {
showMessage("");
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/* if(currentQuestion.userAnswer == 0) {
showMessage("Please answer the current question before continuing");
return;
if(currentIndex < (quizQuestions.length - 1)) {
currentQuestion.visible = false;
currentIndex++;
currentQuestion = quizQuestions[currentIndex];
currentQuestion.visible = true;
} else {
showMessage("That's all the questions! Click Finish to Score, or Previous to go back");
private function finishHandler(event:MouseEvent) {
showMessage("");
var finished:Boolean = true;
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if(quizQuestions[i].userAnswer == 0) {
finished = false;
break;
if(finished) {
prevButton.visible = false;
nextButton.visible = false;
finishButton.visible = false;
hideAllQuestions();
computeScore();
} else {
showMessage("You haven't answered all of the questions");
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for(var i:int = 0; i < quizQuestions.length; i++) {
if(quizQuestions[i].userAnswer == quizQuestions[i].correctAnswer) {
score++;
showMessage("You answered " + score + " correct out of " + quizQuestions.length + " questions.");
I also have a timer running on my FLA, but even if I comment out the timer, I still get the same issue.
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I'm very shortly after a Windows 8 reinstall and I want to make use of this moment to finally understand partitioning and formatting in Windows 8.
Before using Windows 8, I was an XP user for 5 years and I actually never bothered myself with formatting my main system partition, that's probably why my computer ended up working like a slime for the last years. Anyway, by now I have been using Windows 8 for a year.
Three weeks ago I faced a system-related problem with my laptop (IdeaPad Y580) which prevented it from peacefully shutting down. A good friend of mine (XP user for his entire life, and now Windows 7 newbie user) told me, that I should keep all my non-system stuff on separate partition and that I should do the main system partition format from time to time to keep my PC out of trouble. It is sure that he took his knowledge from using XP, and here's my first question - does this method apply to Windows 8?
I mean as far as I know, back then, in XP, partitioning was possible only during Windows installation, and now, in Windows 8 we have a Disk Management for this, which do not require running Windows installation to create new partitions.
I'm mentioning this due to the fact that originally (I mean by factory settings) my drive has only one visible partition - C: (1TB), so I would need to use the Disk Management to take some space from C: partition and allocate it to the new D: partition.
In case I do this whole partitioning operation and create a D: partition, is it sure that formatting my system-only C: partition won't have effects on my D: partition, and all the programms and data I have here will stay on their places and work after format? (I'm worried about this because I've seen in some partitioning guide a warning not to format the main partition after the partitioning operation, because it would erase totally all data - I'm not sure if I misunderstood something or is it a mistake? EDIT: here's the link for this guide, just jump to the "Final Thoughts" section to see what I'm taking about: http://www.technorms.com/8438/windows-8-create-hard-drive-partition ).
If this whole method of keeping your system running fine doesn't apply to Windows 8, I guess I'm okay with having only one C: partition.
By the way, it doesn't matter for me if I create new partition in terms of conflicts with preinstalled Lenovo OneKey Recovery, since I had to reinstall my Windows 8 recently from non-Lenovo CD, and either way my laptop is now totally clean, without Lenovo stuff (I found Lenovo Recovery CD for Y580 on the internet, but it had non-single-language Windows 8 in it, and I needed a single-laguage one in order to have my Product Key recognised, so I just used a pure Windows 8 SL installer)I just found out that I can't even transfer my Users folder or Program Data to other drive than the one with the system, because it would prevent me from updating my system or even from actually booting to my system. So apparently my whole topic is for nothing... I guess I should live with only one drive, and whenever my system totally crashes again I should do the backups to my external HDD. It's sad though that Windows 8 is a total opposite to user-friendly OS, to say the least.
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Link to blog: Coupar Consulting
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