Dynamic Text problems

programming flash
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Hey,
I am experiencing problems with dynamic text. It was working but now its not.

I have the text embedded.
I am referencing it correctly.

this.cap.imageName.text = 'dadadada'

Now its not working, it doesn’t even appear. What other reason why it may not appear.

Conflicting instances. I have checked.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Daniel

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I still cant figure it out. Its doing my head in. I’m sure im doing everything right. Is there any other reasons why the text wont appear? Has anyone experienced similar problem?

D

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What is the text’s purpose? (what is it doing, blah.)

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Its just displaying an image name for an image gallery. The data is extracted from a mysql database, then interpreted into XML. I have passed the value to another text field on its parent stage and works fine. But when I try to set the value of the text field in another mc, it wont work. It doesn’t display any text at all. I had it working but now all of a sudden it doesn’t work. I was wondering what other causes may do this?

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Two words: post fla.

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Thanks bataglia, I know how to set the dynamic text field, mine is not working. I will post my fla today.

Thanks’ guys

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Hey, thanks for the assistant.

http://67.228.228.192/~wwwfroz/category_index.fla.zip

the file size is 160k
Ok here is the problem,
goto frame 10, there is a MC called _thumbs, inside that mc is another mc called cap.
Inside cap there are 2 text fields. 1) imageName, 2)desc.
These dynamic text fields are not populating.

They are called in the function captionFN.

I know the data is working because I passed the values to the other mc thumbsMC. If you look in the function selectThums3, i have commented a line out on the rollover that sets that value of the dynamic text in the other mc.

Thanks heaps and good luck. I have spent hours trying to figure why the text field wont populate.

Daniel

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Anyone had a chance to look at it? I’m sure its simple, i must be overlooking something.

Thanks
D

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Anyone??? wasn’t as easy as initially thought?

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I suspect they haven’t looked because it’s not a Flash 8 file.

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perhaps if you embed more characters? i’m thinking the mask might be messing with the dyn text box? happened to me earlier today…

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How do I go about moving this thread to the CS3 forum. Possible?

I will play around with adding more embeded characters and the mask. I will get back to you. Thanks

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Embedding more characters doesn’t help. Will try mask.

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i removed the mask and it didn’t help. what did you do to get it working? I can’t believe it was working and now its not. Baffled…

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FINALLY SOLVED IT… After all this time i have no idea why it didn’t work but I managed it fix it. After spending hours searching forums after forums. It is quite a common problem people experience with dynamic text. A disappearing act…

Basically I copied over a working dynamic text from another fla file, like batagli test.fla and renamed it, then removed the non working dynamic text. It was that easy.

Thanks guys who tried to help…

d

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Hi,
Sometimes if the size of the text box is not big enough, no text gets displayed.
I am not sure whether your problem is due to this.
With best wishes,
nanda

[quote=rollwithit80;2341991]Hey,
I am experiencing problems with dynamic text. It was working but now its not.

I have the text embedded.
I am referencing it correctly.

this.cap.imageName.text = 'dadadada'

Now its not working, it doesn’t even appear. What other reason why it may not appear.

Conflicting instances. I have checked.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Daniel[/quote]

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I have a video which is converted into flv and swf formats. I did it with a software called Flash Video MX Pro. The software is great. I added many special effects with it. But how can I share my video with my friends. Someone told me that I could upload it to my personal website. Can anyone kindly enough to tell me how to put it into my personal website? And will the special effects influnce the quality? Thank you.

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Thanks nanda, but I have solved the problem. Have no idea but i fixed it by replacing the dynamic text with another dynamic text from another fla file and then renamed the instance.

I’m not sure if it had anything to do with the size of the actual dynamic text field.