Breaking line in dynamic text field

programming flash
1

Hello guys,

Please help. I have an XML with a node, let’s say like this:

<ROW text="This is a line which needs to be broken right here /n to go on from the other line"></ROW>

How can I break the line exactly where the /n is after I loaded this XML? Or how to change the XML to get this in the easiest way?
Thanks a lot for any comments, opinions, help, etc!

Poco

2

maybe its

3

or

**EDIT: **Sorry I didn’t read the post above…

4

Thanks for replies!
Of course it is
, it was a mistake, sorry. But that doesn’t break the line in text field.

Mathew.er, ty si z Ceska?

5

So it does display taht
normally in text? Look for CDATA here or at google… I think it was something like that.
[ot]No jasně že jsem. :D[/ot]

6

Do you have it set to multiline? You will not need CDATA (although you may like to read it just for the knowledge). I believe it’s just not set to multiline.

You may also need to escape your escape sequence… changing “
” to “
”.

TakeCare.

_Michael

7

Yeah, it should be
, not /n. :wink:

Also, you really shoudln’t make your xml node like that. It would be much better to have the content inside the element, such as…

<row>This is a line which needs to be broken right here 
 to go on from the other line</row>

Or, not quite as good…

<row text="This is a line which needs to be broken right here 
 to go on from the other line" />
8 

<row>
<![CDATA[This is a line which needs to be broken right here 
 to go on from the other line]]>
</row>

or


<row>
<![CDATA[This is a line which needs to be broken right here <br> to go on from the other line]]>
</row>

or


<row>
<![CDATA[This is a line which needs to be broken right here \r to go on from the other line]]>
</row>

Im just guessing here… I’m not sure if that will work
Also try puting both quotes in e.g ’ and "

9

Another thing is the capitalized element name, this breaks the xml standard which says that all element names as well as attributes need to be in lower-case.

TakeCare
_Michael

10

Well guys, I may be dumb but I really can’t make it work… none of your solutions works. This is what I set for textfield:

this.maintext_txt.multiline = true;
this.maintext_txt.text = xmlNode.childNodes[0].attributes.description

or

this.maintext_txt.text = xmlNode.childNodes[0].nodeValue; (if I use it as value)

And the XML:
<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8”?>
<ROWS>
<ROW description=“This is a line which needs to be broken right here
to go on from the other line”></ROW>
</ROWS>

:q:

EDIT: The XML loads fine, of course.

11

Ugh, no! You didn’t close your break… it should be [font=monospace]<br />[/font]!

12

^
Sorry… thanks for pointing that out

13

How are you loading your xml in flash?

14

try this:

set the following line of code before you assign the xml content to your textfield.

example:

[AS]
varofyourdynamictexfield.html = true;
varofyourdynamictexfield.text = …(xml source)
[/AS]

You must use ‘vars’ instead of ‘instances’ in order to show HTML tags in your textfield. The xml layout that Crayon-Inc posted earlier is the one to go with.

Hope that solves your problem :wink:

15

I am loading it with this on root:


function loadXML(file, goandplay) {
    xml = new XML();
    xml.ignoreWhite = true;
    xml.onLoad = function(success) {
        if (success) {
            trace("XML loaded");
            //trace(xml);
            _root.gotoAndPlay(goandplay);
        } else {
            trace("Warning! XML hasn't been loaded!");
        }
    };
    xml.load(file);
}

Then this code in external clip:


function writeToFields(xml){
    var xmlNode:XMLNode = xml.firstChild;
    this.maintext_txt.multiline = true;
     this.maintext_txt.text = xmlNode.childNodes[0].nodeValue;
}
writeToFields(_root.xml);

If I do it like this, then from

<row>
<![CDATA[This is a line which needs to be broken right here <br/> to go on from the other line]]>
</row>

I see “null”.

16

EDIT: I did some research and discovered what to do… exactly like MOre said.


function writeToFields(xml){
var xmlNode:XMLNode = xml.firstChild;
this.maintext_txt.multiline = true;
this.maintext_txt.html = true;
this.maintext_txt.text = xmlNode.childNodes[0].nodeValue;
}
writeToFields(_root.xml);
17

Using this for the xml


<row>
<![CDATA[This is a line which needs to be broken right here <br /> to go on from the other line]]>
</row>

=) Hope that helps

18

i too am trying to break a string loaded in - dammit this is silly it should be so simple…

19

Hola talk about over complication, use url encoding:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<node>Hello my%0Aname is joe!</node>

this.xml = new XML();
this.xml.ignoreWhite = true;
this.xml.load("some.xml");
this.xml.onLoad = mx.utils.Delegate.create(this, function ():Void {
 this.txt.text = unescape(this.xml.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue);
});

:hoser:

20

seems to be about ten posts without mentioning that

 ActionScript Code:
 [FONT=Courier New][LEFT][COLOR=#0000ff]this[/COLOR].[COLOR=#000080]maintext_txt[/COLOR].[COLOR=#0000ff]html[/COLOR] = [COLOR=#000000]**true**[/COLOR];

[COLOR=#0000ff]this[/COLOR].[COLOR=#000080]maintext_txt[/COLOR].[COLOR=#0000ff]text[/COLOR] = …
[/LEFT]
[/FONT]

should be
ActionScript Code:
[FONT=Courier New][LEFT][COLOR=#0000ff]this[/COLOR].[COLOR=#000080]maintext_txt[/COLOR].[COLOR=#0000ff]html[/COLOR] = [COLOR=#000000]true[/COLOR];
[COLOR=#0000ff]this[/COLOR].[COLOR=#000080]maintext_txt[/COLOR].[COLOR=#0000ff]htmlText[/COLOR] =…
[/LEFT]
[/FONT]

unless im missing something
:gm: