Flash 8 Making text appear in a movie clip

Filed under: nnxj.com — rose @ March 14, 2010 edit

Hi

I am having problems getting some dynamic text to show inside a movie clip. if i break the text apart it shows up, but not if it is just in the text field. Can any one point me in the right direction.

Many thanks.

Greg

make sure you choose embed fonts in your dynamic text field, through the properties inspector.

I'm guessing that you have used a mask somewhere? If you have you need to embed the font and it will show up fine.

Hi sorry

The sort of text that means they can update their home page with news but without having to use flash as they have no idea. so for example they could wright it in Word or Textedit and upload that file instead and flash would recognise it and display that in the right place. Does that make sense?

thanks

again many thanks for your help.

YOU GuUYS!!!

Many, many thanks!

Is there a tutorial here that you know of, that can point me in the right direction for enableing my friend to upload their own text?

Greg

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/multiple_dynamictext.htm

Have a read of the help files on LoadVars and loadVariables. The principle is quite straightforward in that your external text file is made up of Actionscript name and value pairs, e.g.
myNewsHeading=This is the heading for the news item&myNewsBody=This is the body of the news item.

A search on load text variables into Flash should find loads of examples.

What do you mean by uploading their own text? Uploading the text to a web site so that your Flash application can access it? Or directly imputting text into a text box? Clarify, please. :)

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