Hi,
I’m still new to flash and actionscript so would appreciate any help.
I’ve made a class called scrollertext which creates a textfield to my dimensions, which is then scrollable by clicking on the text and dragging it.
Can someone have a look at the code and give me a hint at why it’s not working!
It seems to work with the 4 lines of text but more and it breaks??
The scrollertext class is linked to a scrollertext movieclip which consists of:
masker(movieclip)
textmc(movieclip)…this contains textportion(textfield)
package
{
import flash.events.*;
import flash.display.*;
import flash.text.*;
import flash.geom.*;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.display.Shape;
///////// I CAN CALL ON THIS CLASS TO MAKE A TEXTFIELD OF SPECIFIED CONFIG TO BE ADDED TO MY STAGE/MOVIECLIPS
//// I.E.
/*
var testy = new scrollertext();
testy.configuration = [
{
w: 400,
h: 200,
colourhex: "0x000000",
size: 35,
autosize: "left",
canselect: false,
font: "Avenir 85 Heavy",
back: true,
backcolour: "0xFFFFFF",
textstring: "This is 4 lines of text.
This is 4 lines of text.
This is 4 lines of text.
This is 4 lines of text."
}
];
addChild(testy);
*/
public class scrollertext extends MovieClip
{
private var newwidth = 150;
private var newheight = 150;
private var _value;
private var roundRect;
public function scrollertext()
{
addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, doAdded);
}
private function doAdded(evt:Event)
{
textmc.textportion.mask = masker;
setupsizes();
textmc.textportion.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, movetext);
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, stoptext);
}
//adds a rounded rectangle background to the textfield
private function sortbg()
{
if(_value[0].back == true && _value[0].backcolour != null)
{
if(roundRect!=null){removeChild(roundRect);}
roundRect = new Shape();
roundRect.graphics.beginFill(_value[0].backcolour, 1);
//background is based up the sizes of the mask
roundRect.graphics.drawRoundRect(0-(newwidth*0.05), 0-newheight*0.05, newwidth+((newwidth*0.05)*2), newheight+((newheight*0.05)*2), newwidth*0.05, newheight*0.05);
roundRect.graphics.endFill();
//set it behing the mask
addChildAt(roundRect,numChildren-1);
}
}
function movetext(e:MouseEvent)
{
textmc.startDrag(false, new Rectangle( 0, 0,0, 0-(textmc.height-newheight)));
}
function stoptext(e:MouseEvent)
{
textmc.stopDrag();
}
private function setupsizes()
{
textmc.textportion.x = 0;
textmc.textportion.y = 0;
masker.x = 0;
masker.y = 0;
textmc.textportion.height = newheight;
textmc.textportion.width = newwidth;
masker.height = newheight;
masker.width = newwidth;
sortbg();
}
public function set configuration(value:Array)
{
if(_value==null) { _value=value;}
newwidth = _value[0].w;
newheight = _value[0].h;
textmc.textportion.text = _value[0].textstring;
textmc.textportion.selectable = _value[0].canselects;
textmc.textportion.wordWrap = true;
switch (_value[0].autosize)
{
case "left" :
textmc.textportion.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
break;
case "right" :
textmc.textportion.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.RIGHT;
break;
case "center" :
textmc.textportion.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.CENTER;
break;
}
var myFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
myFormat.color = _value[0].colourhex;
myFormat.size = _value[0].size;
myFormat.align = _value[0].alignment;
myFormat.font = _value[0].font;
textmc.textportion.setTextFormat(myFormat);
}
}
}
Try calling it with the following:
var l=1;
var bitoftext="";
while(l<411)
{
bitoftext+="Line "+l+"
";
l++;
}
testy = new scrollertext();
testy.configuration = [
{
w: 300,
h: 200,
colourhex: "0x000000",
size: 20,
autosize: "left",
alignment: "left",
canselect: false,
font: "Avenir 85 Heavy",
back: true,
backcolour: "0xFFFFFF",
textstring: bitoftext
}
];
testy.x = 50;
testy.y = 50;
addChild(testy);
Somethings wrong with the sizing somewhere???
UPDATE:
I’ve changed the font and it’s now working exactly as intended.
I’m a little bit confused as I embedded the Avenir 85 Heavy font - but if I change the font to arial it works fine???
