Annoying extra N/L in Dynamic Text

programming flash
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Hi,

I have a working flash movie with an ASP page that retrieves text from a database and displays it in a dynamic text box.

The only problem is that if i have a newline in the text, flash seems to put two newlines.

Is this a bug or a setting that needs to be made in order to rectify this?

I had originally used html code so the html setting is set for the textbox. This isn’t strictly needed now but would this be the cause?

regards,

FM

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mark in the dynamic text’s properties “use html code” and text you want to write in it convert to html code eg.

instead of
“once upon a time…blah…
and they were living…”
write
“once upon a time…blah…<br>and they were living…”

but don’t use any “ENTERS”!!!
cuz flash interprets them as a double extraline

3

Aha…

That explains it, thanks.

4

does that mean if you want an automatic wrap for a very long sentence you’ll have to write the whole sentence in one single line?

5

I found that if I do this in the ASP page which retrieves the data and sends it to the flash movie…

PageText = Replace(PageText, vbcrlf, “<br>”)

The problem disappears.

Now if you have one ‘enter’ in your text Flash shows one ‘enter’ and not two.

(Took me ages to work out how to write this <br>)

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mlk - yes