[FMX] Trying to Animate a dynamically loaded Text

1

Hi there, I am trying to emulate the http://www.fastpay.com/common/images/text1a.gif

except with an external txt file for the animation to read from. … is this possible to do with flash, i have read a cuple of tutes, but haven’t been able to get it working…

Here is what i have so far, I created a dynamic text box and can read in the text using

loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load(“hello1.txt”);
loadText.onLoad = function() {
Txt.text = this.Txt;

};

Txt being the name of the instance of my text box…

but see when i try to make this into a symbol or clip, and animate it, i dont see the text anymore :frowning:

can anybody help? plz ?

Thanks a lot in advance for anybody who can help…

2

set the dynamic text’s character settings to “All Characters” and try again…

e.s.x.s

3

Hey

That didn’t work either,… but thanks for the reply… see whenever I try to convert that box into a movieclip it doesn’t show the text anymore…

Can any experts help on this maybe?

Thank again

4

Hi, I stil haven’t been able to figure out this, and was wondering if anybody atleast any ideas?

this what i have come up with so far…

_root.text_mc._visible=false;
//loads in and deals with the loaded text
loadVarsText = new loadVars();
loadVarsText.load(“hello.txt” );
loadVarsText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {

 textHolder= new Array();

//‘myWord’ is what i named the text as in the .txt file
textHolder = _root.myWord.split(":" );
x=textHolder.length;

     for (i=0; i<=x; i++) {
      _root.text_mc.duplicateMovieClip ("letter_"+i, i);
      _root["letter_"+i].input = textHolder[i-1];

//spaces them out evenly, one on top of the other
if (i != 1) {
root["letter"+i]._y = root["letter"+(i-1)]._y+root["letter"+(i-1)]._height+10;
}
}
} else {

}

}

5

it doesnt show up because you need to correct the path to the textfield.[AS]loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load(“hello1.txt”);
loadText.onLoad = function() {
text_mc.Txt.text = this.Txt;
};[/AS]Where text_mc is the instance name of the movie clip with the textfield inside.

6

Hey Claudio thanks ALOT :slight_smile:

I can’t believe i missed something so small, and went on to create some stupid long code… hehe

but really thanks alot,… :slight_smile:

7

No problem =)

You may want to check this 2 tutorials
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/tricks/relativeaddressing.asp
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/tricks/root_parent_this.asp