I have a button component on my scene. But when I set labelPlacement to left, it can't do that. How can I fix this?
From what I understand and have read about the labelPlacement property is that it works in conjunction with the use of an icon within the button, not to necessarily change the position of the text in relation to the button boundary.
Here is some text that documents this from the Adobe Website:
If you are using an icon with a Button instance, you can control the placement of the text label, relative to the icon, by setting the labelPlacement property using one of the constants from the ButtonLabelPlacement class (fl.controls.ButtonLabelPlacement). For more information on working with button icons, see Setting icons.
Source: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/quickstart/button_component_as3.html
Additional sources: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/quickstart/button_component_as3.html#articlecontentAdobe_numberedheader_6
However, a hackish way of moving the text to the left would be to add spaces to the right of the string. Currently, empty spaces at the start or end of the label are not auto trimmed. Here is an example of what I am talking about:
import fl.controls.Button;
var myButton:Button = new Button();
myButton.label = "Click me ";
addChild(myButton);
I tested the code shown above in Flash CC 2014 and the text looked like it was left aligned, when it really wasn't because of the additional spaces added to the end of label.
It is worth mentioning that I also experiemented with the textField property of the Button class to see if the autoSize or setTextFormat functionality could be used to left align the text, and those all failed.
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With any of the editable text fields such as RichEditableText, TextArea and any TextFlow containers the cursor is always the familiar text entry pipe character with serifs thing. Whatever.
I need to be able to change that to a hand cursor as it moves over an inline graphic image and then revert back to text entry cursor on mouse out.
I've been looking at the CursorManager class but have had no luck yet.
UPDATE:
I found a class FlowElementMouseEventManager that manages the cursor as it moves over a text flow container. It's not clear how to change the cursor to a hand cursor yet but the LinkElement will change to a hand cursor when the mouse is over it and the CTRL is held down.
Set buttonmode = true for that inline graphic image and you are good to go
Is there a way to separate a label from a textbox?
I found that this is supposed to work :
Select the controls
Arrange tab
Remove layout
But the remove layout button is always disabled... Probably cause it's only when you use the tabular or stacked option
Is there any other way to do it, or am I doing something wrong?
Please, don't tell me that I have to copy/paste the label and delete the original one.
Thank you
To move a text box (or any control) independently from its label is to click and drag the control using the large grey box in the top left of the control. This allows you complete freedom of placement between the control and label.
Remove layout only works if you use either tabular or stacked.
Use the square at the top right to move them separately, and select only the label to delete the label.
Just select the one you want to use only, and it can be controlled separately. Also: width, height, top, and left in the properties tab are your friends.
Use remove layout if you can select that little cross.
Use the align buttons to tidy up this mess.
I do not use Access much so I find letting Access create all the labels is quicker, when separating the label from the data I use the following method.
Click the label
Ctrl+C to copy label
Delete to remove label
Ctrl+V to paste label back to form
Drag from top left to roughly the location you want
If you have a column of labels then do the cut/copy/paste/reposition for all of them first, then use the method Fionnuala shows to align all to right.
If the labels are too far to the left or right the use the cursor keys to move.
Again use Fionnuala method to align the rows.
If you find they do not align as expected then Ctrl+Z to step back.
If Remove Layout is not available, select Stacked, which will make Remove Layout available, and then select Remove Layout.
This also keeps things where they are, so less re-aligning afterwards.
I think I've got the right answer. Select the Label and send click "Send to back" on Arrange Tab. Label will be detached. Now move it anywhere as required.
I am working on a class similar to the standard text field. I actually use the default TextField inside it. My only problem is that the textField does not work correctly. If I set it to textField.type = TextFieldType.INPUT, I can delete the text, but I can't enter new text. Also, the cursor is not being displayed. This is my Class (part of it): http://pastebin.com/LsgQjxpa
The skin is like this: http://pastebin.com/yDhEGHLm
I can't figure out what exactly I am doing wrong. I also have to mention that I am compiling for AIR Mobile and testing directly from Flash Builder
One problem appears to be that you have set the selectable property to false. This makes sense when type is TextFieldType.DYNAMIC. However, it's problematic when the type is TextFieldType.INPUT.
When you disable selection of the text, no cursor is displayed. I am able to still edit the text. However, since the cursor is not visible I cannot change it's position and the text gets added in front of any existing text.
In AS3 I have a button on the stage and above it I create a textbox box dynamically with code.
My problem is that the area that is under the text (i.e. that part of the button) is no longer clickable.
I have set:
tBox.selectable = false;
but that doesn't solve it.
Any ideas
Season greetings,
Luben
Use InteractiveObject.mouseEnabled:
textField.mouseEnabled=false;
If you set component.visible to false it does not interact with the user.
So, if you set tBox.visible = false then it will be invisible and the button will become clickable. Just a thought, but overlapping components is really bad UI design. If you have space on your stage, you should consider keeping them separate
The problem is that text field (despite it's transparent) is lying over button. To make click on button possible you have to be sure that button is in front of text. Take a look at AddChildAt method of DisplayObject. Objects with greater position index are lying over objects with lower position index. So all you need is to make sure that button has greater index:
container.addChildAt(button, 1)
...
container.addChildAt(text, 0)
P.S.: you may embed button dirrectly into text field using html <a href="javascript:..."><img src="link_to_image"><a/> or something like that.
I would like to show some images and text in the same line. The text and image is completely dynamic. At first I thought to use htmlText property of TextField as img tag is supported. Something like this:
var tf:TextField = new TextField();
tf.htmlText = "before img <img src='img.png'> after image";
addChild(tf);
But I found that the image is showing in the next line, not in the middle of two text segments. Then after checking the manual of TextField I have found that this is the documented behavior that the image will be shown on the line following the img tag.
So what is the best way to do this? Note that the text and position of images are completely dynamic.
I understand that it is possible to split the input in a series of texts and images and then position them calculating the text and images width. In other words parse the input ourselves.
Is there any better way to do this? Or is there any library available that does this parsing?
Hail, Taskinoor.
You need use TLF.
You can follow this link that describe even more that you want.
Edit: I'm assuming you are using Flex (TextFlow).
Don't know if it is possible directly on Flash with Flex SDK4...
Maybe you'll need TLF2 (Flex SDK 4.5 Hero)