Text on ActionScript 3.0

I don't seem to have much success with this method of
exchange, (so far zero success rate). I would be grateful for any
information on books available on ActionScript CS3. All the books I
have found are on previous versions.
Books can be ordered in local stores. Online purchase is a
problem at the moment.
hopeful

Hi Dave
Thanks for your help so far. I have done a six month course
in Flash (CS2) and the same for ActionScript (CS3). Apart from that
I have created projects for other purposes using Flash, because it
seemed the best approach, so I'd say I'm a relative beginner. I am
trying to complete a number of projects, currently, but have a few
problems which have stopped progress for the moment. I've tried
internet with varying success and this forum, unfortunately with
none. Finding the balance between context and minimising inserted
code is the main problem. For example, yesterday I asked how one
could modify an existing (void) function, to exchange information
with an outer function. The person that replied, told me I didn't
need to nest functions and from what I saw of the reply, showed me
how to remove the nesting, which I had done deliberately. I really
don't know what I did, to give the impression that I needed that
information. I just ended up a bit confused as to how the situation
occurred. I haven't been able to find information on how to set up
an program generated indexed multidimensional array, (though I can
create one from code, i.e. keyed data). The problem is loading
program generated data. Another problem is reseting a ActionScript
created Combo box. I thought the last attempt was close, but got an
"undefined function" error, which suggested that I might need to
import addition code e.g. fl.controls.???, but I don't really
understand what controls apply to what code. So information on that
would be useful. Sending input data to a sharedObject is easy, but
output data not so. Finally, exchanging data between different
frames (Actionscript CS3) is needed in my current menu project, but
I don't know how to do that and wonder if it is really necessary to
send the data outside Flash, to achieve that aim. I would have
hoped Flash would be more self contained.
I don't have a lot of programming experience, though I have
developed basic HTML /CSS webpages, a flash webpage and have a
Maths degree, so I understand basic mathematical concepts. At the
moment I'm finding the hold-ups somewhat frustrating. I just
haven't been able to break through, what I might have considered
moderately basic problems for an experienced programmer. I guess
the problems are more difficult to resolve than I anticipated.
There are more issues, but that should suffice.
I was able to pass on the reference information you provided
to another new user on this site. As well as a title on Flash which
I found useful. So hopefully they may be able to advance a little
themselves.
If you have any suggestions on how I might advance, all
information will be gratefully received.

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flexFT
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15,
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11:29:09,093 INFO [EntryPoint] Started with arguments: -port 7777 -jwg C:\OracleATS\OFT\test06_ff\test06_ff.jwg
11:29:09,250 INFO [EntryPoint] Received StartScriptEvent
11:29:09,250 INFO [EntryPoint] Running "test06_ff" ...
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11:29:09,453 INFO [1] Initialized script service "oracle.oats.scripting.modules.browser.api.BrowserService"
11:29:09,453 INFO [1] Initialized script service "oracle.oats.scripting.modules.functionalTest.api.FunctionalTestService"
11:29:09,484 INFO [1] Initialized script service "oracle.oats.scripting.modules.webdom.api.WebDomService"
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11:29:21,718 INFO [1] Step: [2] Login Page (/main.html)
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I get a popup ActionScript Error from Adobe Flash Player 9 when trying to record a Flex Tree object using OpenScript 9.2.1.0 Production. Specifically, I click on the Triangle that opens/closes the view of the child nodes underneath the parent node of a Tree. Initially, the triangle arrow already pointing down and the child node is already showing. When I click on the triangle, the node underneath goes up and disappears under its parent node and the traingle is then pointing to the parent node.
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Error: Unable to find automation method 'mx.events.TreeEvent' for class '[object OSAutomationClass]'.
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I can click "Dismiss All" from the Adobe popup and Firefox isn't affected. Openscript doesn't appear to have any issues and the recording can be continued or stopped. It records the click on the tree and the "Dismiss All" from the popup both as "Click object("@id='main'") as type "web" instead of "flexFT".
I am using OATS 9.2.1.0 with Firefox 3.6.17. I am testing a Flex 3.3 SDK built application. I installed the Adobe Flash Player 9 that came with the Flex SDK 3.3 before installing OATS.
Any help on this issue is greatly appreciated.
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flexFT
.list(
15,
     "/web:window[@index='0' or @title='My Title']/web:document[@index='0']/flex:application[@automationIndex='index:-1' and @label='' and @className='main' and @automationName='main' and @automationClassName='FlexApplication' and @id='main']/flex:canvas[@automationIndex='index:1' and @label='' and @className='mx.containers.Canvas' and @automationName='mainCanvas' and @automationClassName='FlexCanvas' and @id='mainCanvas']/flex:dividedBox[@automationIndex='index:16' and @label='' and @className='view.MainMediator' and @automationName='mediator' and @automationClassName='FlexDividedBox' and @id='mediator']/flex:accordion[@label='' and @automationName='index:0' and @id='null' and @automationIndex='index:0' and @className='mx.containers.Accordion' and @automationClassName='FlexAccordion']/flex:canvas[@automationIndex='index:1' and @label='My%20View2' and @className='view.my.MyNavigator' and @automationName='My%20View2' and @automationClassName='FlexCanvas' and @id='null']/flex:canvas[@label='' and @automationName='index:1' and @id='null' and @automationIndex='index:1' and @className='mx.containers.Canvas' and @automationClassName='FlexCanvas']/flex:list[@automationIndex='index:2' and @className='view.MyGridTree' and @automationName='index:2' and @automationClassName='FlexList' and @id='null']")
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think(1.0);
Console Output:
11:29:09,093 INFO [EntryPoint] Started with arguments: -port 7777 -jwg C:\OracleATS\OFT\test06_ff\test06_ff.jwg
11:29:09,250 INFO [EntryPoint] Received StartScriptEvent
11:29:09,250 INFO [EntryPoint] Running "test06_ff" ...
11:29:09,453 INFO [1] Initialized script service "oracle.oats.scripting.modules.utilities.api.UtilitiesService"
11:29:09,453 INFO [1] Initialized script service "oracle.oats.scripting.modules.browser.api.BrowserService"
11:29:09,453 INFO [1] Initialized script service "oracle.oats.scripting.modules.functionalTest.api.FunctionalTestService"
11:29:09,484 INFO [1] Initialized script service "oracle.oats.scripting.modules.webdom.api.WebDomService"
11:29:09,484 INFO [1] Initialized script service "oracle.oats.scripting.modules.flexFT.api.FlexFTService"
11:29:09,484 INFO [1] Initializing VU 1 for script test06_ff
11:29:21,546 INFO [1] Step: [1] Redirect (/Page1/)
11:29:21,718 INFO [1] Step: [2] Login Page (/main.html)
11:29:32,218 INFO [1] Step: [3] My Title (/main.html)
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     at oracle.oats.scripting.modules.flexFT.api.elements.AbstractFlexFTElement.replayEvent(AbstractFlexFTElement.java:99)
     at oracle.oats.scripting.modules.flexFT.api.elements.ListBase.select(ListBase.java:170)
     at script.run(script.java:100)
     at oracle.oats.scripting.modules.basic.api.IteratingVUser.run(IteratingVUser.java:325)
     at oracle.oats.scripting.modules.basic.api.internal.IteratingAgent.run(IteratingAgent.java:717)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
11:30:11,453 ERROR [1] Iteration 1 failed at line (script.java:100). Target not found
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     at oracle.oats.scripting.modules.flexFT.api.elements.AbstractFlexFTElement.replayEvent(AbstractFlexFTElement.java:99)
     at oracle.oats.scripting.modules.flexFT.api.elements.ListBase.select(ListBase.java:170)
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     at oracle.oats.scripting.modules.basic.api.IteratingVUser.run(IteratingVUser.java:325)
     at oracle.oats.scripting.modules.basic.api.internal.IteratingAgent.run(IteratingAgent.java:717)
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11:30:12,468 INFO [1] Finished VU 1 for script test06_ff
Thanks,
John

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                              input.restrict = "0-9";
                              stage.focus = input;
the problem is whenever I test it. I get no errors. In the text box (instance named "output") instead of saying, "I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 100" it is saying "UEEEE". I ran it with debuging permited and it told me I should embed the text or use device central however, the book says not to though.

embed your text and add no text to output in the ide. only assign text with actionscript unless you use a static textfield.
(and, get a new book if it really adises against embedding fonts.)

HTML in Actionscript

When I paste HTML text from Dreamweaver into Actionscript, to
appear in a dynamic text field, Actionscript chokes on any line
spaces between tags (which Dreamweaver automatically puts in). I
tried manually deleting all the line breaks, but the text is so
long, I end up with a single, incredibly unwieldy line of code.
There must be another way of getting Actionscript to accept
HTML text with invisible line breaks between the tags. Does anyone
know? Or do I have to load the HTML text from an external file? I'm
already loading a CSS stylesheet from an external file, maybe the
text needs to be too. Especially as I have several paragraphs of
text. Thanks!

you can use something like the following to make your code
more eyeball friendly:

Newborn Newbie Needs To Edit Flash Template Text

First, I AM learning Flash 8 at Lynda.com. However I have the immediate need to know how to edit the text in a .fla file in F8. I am fairly proficient in Dreamweaver 8 and Photoshop CS, although that may not matter in the case of Flash.
I do not know how to get at nor edit the text in an .fla file. I've opened an .fla in Flash but it looks like everything's on one layer and I assumed Flash was like PS in that there are many layers of content. I tried but I mangled it badly. I don't really know how the text tools work in Flash.
I purchased the following template from Flashden:
http://flashden.net/item/md-portfoliosite-v2/full_screen_preview/3109
Xml files are included but unfortunately they only drive the galleries and not the rest of the site. Can someone please school me in very very (to the 100th power) basic steps on how I get at this text, edit it, and how I convert the .fla to a .swf and export it to Dreamweaver?
I have attached the .swf file.
THANK YOU!!!!!!

The text may be in an external .txt or .xml file. If you think that the text is written directly in the Flash movie, you can use the Find and Replace tool to find the text. Open the movie, select the stage window, go to the Edit menu and select find. When this window opens type in some of the text that you're trying to find, select Text and Actionscript in the options and and hit the find button. This should give you a list of the places where that text exists in your movie.

How to Set the Text of an Onstage TextField?

I'm trying to set an onstage TextField instance's "text" property, while maintaining embedded fonts and its onstage appearance.
Problem Encountered: Text doesn't show up when setting text via ActionScript on an on-stage TextField w/ embedded text.
Workaround: Create and assign a TextFormat object:
defaultTextFormat = new TextFormat('Arial', 100, 0x000000, true, true);
Annoyance: This defeats the purpose of styling text with the IDE.
Possible Solution: Import the embedded font to the library and export for ActionScript?

My problem was actually that merely setting the *text* property caused my dynamic TextField w/ embedded font to not display any text. BUT, I just re-tested this with a new file, and the problem doesn't occur. Only thing I can think of is -- my FLA was created with an older version of Flash... possibly MX 200(4?). Could this be the issue?

Bold and italic fonts in dynamic text fields.

I have a dynamic text field with the text "IMAGES". The font
is Arial, it has BOLD and ITALIC checked, and has basic Latin fonts
embedded. Now, I use Actionscript to change the text:
textField.text = "IMAGES";
Suddenly the text disappears! Now, it seems to me that since
BOLD and ITALIC are checked on the text field, changing the .text
value should simply change the text itself, which should then be
rendered in bold and italic, and since I have bold+italic Latin
glyphs embedded, it should display properly. But what's clearly
happening is that when I set the text using Actionscript, it is
attempting to display the NORMAL font instead, and since it's not
embedded, it won't display. I know this because if I create another
proxy text field off the screen and embed the NORMAL Arial glyphs,
the original text field's text will display just fine - as
normal-weight text.
But why is this? Do I have to use a TextFormat object to set
the text to Bold and Italic EVERY time I want to dynamicaly change
the text? This seems silly. I simply want my text field to be bold
and italic every time the text changes, and NO normal text!
Any ideas?

I met the same problem using ActionScript3 and Flash Professional CS5. There are two problems with dynamic TextFields:
- When you set style "Bold" for a text field in CS5, the "bold" property is not available in the TextField object in ActionScript, its defaultTextFormat.bold is alway false; I don't know if we can get this property anywhere else.
- When you change the text of the dynamic TextField object, its style changes to normal no matter whether it was bold previously.
This is really a bug in TextField, Adobe should fix this to implement TextField in an expected way.

Text as outlines in flash 8

okay, so i've got a situation where i actually want to treat
text as the shapes the letter forms create and not the outter
bounding box of the movieclip.
I'm dynamically making text in actionscript, then wanting to
assign rollover actions to it. The problem is im making a bunch of
text layers all overlapping, and i'd really like the user
experience to be if they roll over the actual text it trips the
events but if they roll over white space aroudn the text it does
not.
flash used to behave this way and we'd have to put
transparent movies behind the text to make it treat the whole area
as a bounding box so buttons would work well. It looks like in v8
that was changed to automatically use the bounding area.. i'd
really like it to only trip when the user rolls over the letter
form.. any chance there's a parameter i can set on that movieclip,
or did the 'fix' remove the functionality entirely?
-frz

1. make sure the text is static.
2. make sure the color is not the same as the background color the text overlays.
3. make sure nothing's covering the text.
4. make sure your text is on-stage.
if you can't see your text, at least, one of the above 4 is not true.

Text on ActionScript 3.0

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