For a project, I'm trying import htmlText into flash, and then remove any items flash will not process. For example, the html I want to import contains custom "[caption][/caption]" code. I essentially want to remove these identifiers and any text from in between them so that flash will not display them in a text field. Does anyone have a good suggestion/example for me? I have been trying to figure out how to use regular expressions to do this, but have been unsuccessful in finding a good guide for it and so have failed.
And example of text I'm trying to filter:
<em>Pushmo</em> is a game filled with questions. How do I solve this puzzle? Is that a 8-bit Mario's face? Why is this old, obese blob making tons of death traps that easily ensnare and encase unsuspecting children?
[caption id="attachment_37414" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="The fat, red sumo goes into the most dangous place imaginable."]<img class="size-medium wp-image-37414" title="Pushmo-title" src="/2011/12/pushmo-3ds-title-screen-400x203.jpg" alt="Pushmo Title Screen" width="400" height="203" />[/caption]
<em>Pushmo</em> is a downloadable puzzle game in the 3DS eShop. In <em>Pushmo</em> you take on the role of Mallo, an amorphic red sumo wrestler with the mind of an Einstienian savant.
I'm looking to be able to detect identifying text and remove anything between them. I'd appreciate any suggestions anyone can give me.
You might be able to use indexOf and lastIndexOf to achieve this without regex.
Also you should have a look at String.replace
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/String.html
and an as3 regex tutorial:
http://snipplr.com/view/6608/as3-regular-expression-basics/
finally a tutorial for pure regex:
http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html
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I want to convert text to shape in flash cs6 AS3
when I click Break Apart then my text is removing.
Please advice me why?
I think you better enter your text in another software, like word or paint
Capture the screen (using PrtScr or PrintScreen or an utility)
Paste in your stage
Convert to symbol
Enter the symbol and then Break Apart!!
It will then be an Image and you can change it as you like!!
Good Luck!
I'm looking for a list of flash.include.whatever.whatever for as3.
If no one knows a list then can someone tell me the flash.include to use for drawing rectangle with the startFill and endFill things? Thanks for any help.
I didn't find anything on either of these googling, and the place I got the code for drawing a rectangle of course didn't have the flash.includes included in the example code... is their a reason so many people do that? Any way I can get around it?
Do you mean you want a list of the packages and classes that come with AS3? That is typically called the documentation and can be found here:
Adobe ActionScript® 3 API Reference
For drawing a Rectangle, you can start at flash.display.Shape. It has a graphics object with the methods .beginFill() and .endFill().
you can using a Graphics.
The Graphics class contains a set of methods that you can use to
create a vector shape. Display objects that support drawing include
Sprite and Shape objects. Each of these classes includes a graphics
property that is a Graphics object. The following are among those
helper functions provided for ease of use: drawRect(),
drawRoundRect(), drawCircle(), and drawEllipse(). You cannot create a
Graphics object directly from ActionScript code. If you call new
Graphics(), an exception is thrown.
The Graphics class is final; it cannot be subclassed.
here is a sample
import flash.display.*;
this.graphics.beginFill(0xff0000);
this.graphics.drawRect(0,0,100,100);
here is a Adobe Tutorial
AS3 all display class list here
You do not necessarily need to default AS3 include. fine compile. But include only the code you can see the hint. perhaps, CS4 after that if you use a specific class will automatically include. or ctrl+space is autocompletion.
As follows by default when you install the flash is because of the SWC path.
As per I know, there is not such a thing like Flash.include. May be you're trying to ask something else or may be i am still unknown about this feature.
If you found any positive thing about this, please let me know, i want to know that new thing.
I'm beginner in flash. I created a text from the text_tool in flash. I set the instance name 'mytext' and text type to dynamic. Now I want to change the text on run time. For example: current text is 'hello world' now when I run the flash file I want to change the text to 'any random text'. So I used following code for this. mytext.text = 'any random text'; but on the run time I could see any text. Please help me how to change its text?
Thank you
There could be multiple reasons for that, Please check for the following:
If there are multiple frames on your timeline and your TextField is extended all over those frames then make sure you have provided the instance name to your TextField on all the KeyFrames on the timeline.
If you are using some fancy Fonts, try embedding the fonts, at times non-embedded Fonts create this problem.
for addition, you can use
your textfield.appendText();
good luck for your work :)
Okay, so I've been busting my hump the last week or so on this project for my OOP/AS3 course and this past Sunday I realized that my approach wasn't going to work so I scrapped the better part of it and started over.
Our assignment is to create an XML based flash menu that demonstrates an understanding of the OOP patterns we've just learned. It was kind of a 'test the waters' project where he gave us a ton of tutorials and information and told us to make our best attempt at making sense of it so I'm certain there are more efficient ways to do what I'm doing, but that's a moot point.
We need to employ at least two patterns in our menu, though at the moment I'm just focusing on MVC so that I can get the mainUI working before I finalize the second part of the UI. It essentially flows like so:
MainUI has 4 menus that slide out.
Each slider has 3 thumbnails on it.
Clicking on any of the thumbnails will move to the next part of the UI. This functionality is currently disabled.
The program runs with 0 compiler errors, but the images are not being placed on the stage correctly and I can't figure out why. All the image paths are being pulled and stored from the XML properly. The main background image is pulled once and is supposed to be only placed once (if statement that uses a count to determine whether to run the placement function or not), but it is being placed 4 times with the sliding menu image. The sliders are being placed in the correct positions (switch statement that iterates through the mainUI function in the View class and creates a separate loader for each one), but the thumbnails are not all showing up. So here is what I'm seeking help with:
The mainPanel image should only be placed once, rather than 4 times with each slider.
The sliders, while being placed correctly, must be tweened in different directions through the as (using TweenMax), but each instance is unidentifiable from the other so right now they all have an eventListener that calls the same tween method. How can I distinguish them in a way that lets me apply a different tween to each (This will likely be a concern with the thumbnail functionality later as I will need to load different XML data based on which thumb is clicked).
I have added what I hope are very informative comments to each script so hopefully people can help. Also included are images of what I want the mainUI to eventually look like and how it's coming out currently.
pastebin with all 3 classes and XML (2 hyperlink limit) - http://pastebin.com/u/crookedparadigm
top image is how the stage is outputting, bottom image is what I'd like to to be - http://imgur.com/a/bOmsS
Last quick note, stage is currently set to 600x480 with a black background. Ideally, to reinforce OOP principles, our professor wants us to avoid using the timeline or library if possible.
Any advice at all will be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Install FlexPMD This is a very good add on( sometimes hard to install ) It basically is used to show areas of your code that you are not following standards. For example your classes lack the use of "this". And you should avoid passing parameters in constructors. It would be good practice to develop standardized writing skills while you are still new.
Looking at your code I see you are calling buildUI from within a loop.
buildUI is assigning a MainView object to mainUI.
So each time you go through a loop iteration you are reassigning mainUI.
In the end mainUI will only be the last iteration of that loop.
Not sure this is your issue but is an issue.
[EDIT]
Excellent Singleton guide for Flex SDK
Part 1
Part 2
Some Good writing on pure AS3 Singletons.
I would prolly start from scratch as your XML data is miss formatted.
your XML should resemble something like this.
<MainProject>
<MainUI>
<Thumbnail Name="Spring">
<Destination Name="Spring" Price="99" ratingPath="images/SP1/SP1rating.png" />
</Thumbnail>
<Thumbnail Name="Winter">
<Destination Name="Winter" Price="152" ratingPath="images/SP1/SP2rating.png" />
</Thumbnail>
</MainUI>
</MainProject>
Then you should have the following structure on your stage. These movieclips should be empty and already placed inside on your stage with instance name.
Stage
MenuUI MovieClip
ThumbNail1 MovieClip <- feed it thumbnail from the XML
ThumbNail2 MovieClip <- feed it thumbnail from the XML
ThumbNail3 MovieClip <- feed it thumbnail from the XML
ThumbNail4 MovieClip <- feed it thumbnail from the XML
This might be a bit too vague, just tell me if you need more details.
Hope this helps !
Well, it's not an error, actually. I have wrote a game. There is only one keyframe on the main timeline (I don't mean one layer, there are lots of them, just like different MovieClips). Currently, I'm not using TextField anywhere, but I want to, because I need to display score on the screen. When adding TextField through Flash CS5 and naming it, when compiling, unknown window appears, you can see it on the picture. Not quite sure what it means. When clicking OK, window disappears but instead of my program there are three dots on the screen, you can see them also. I have no idea, neither of what is this, or how to fix it. Any hints? Thank you in advance :)
By the way, on one of the pictures, you can see what the game should look like. And as I said, it does, until I add some TextField to it.
it seems that you're using the TLF (text-layout-framework) in your textfield by accident.
this is a RSL (runtime shared library) that the flashplayer has to load before it can show your content. (and i think the dots are some kind of preloader that adobe puts in there ...!?)
but you don't need the TLF, you can just use a simple TextField.
select your score-textfield and choose "classic-text" in the properties window ... think that'll remove the TLF from your project. (if you have more than one TextField, check every one of them for "TLF text" and change it to classic).