Any flash junkies in the house?

[DreamThrall]

I'm trying to use the htmlText property of a dynamic text field box, but I can't get it to display the HTML code correctly. Whenever I use a simple bold tag, the text between the tags dissapears! I've set the .html property to true... I don't get what I'm doing wrong!

 

[CyberSh33p]

don't know flash myself, but heres a site

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/htmltext.htm

does it help? :X

 

[DreamThrall]

Yeah I found that while googling, but that's for the version previous to the one I have... I tried everything from it, but nothing worked :\

 

[CyberSh33p]

sorry, can't help you then mate =\ don't know flash, though I should get into it sometime

 

[DreamThrall]

it's fun... actionscripting is fairly easy for a programmer... it is essentially javascript, with some extras thrown in so it works with the flash DOM.

 

[CyberSh33p]

yar, I'll have to [sarcasm]buy[/sarcasm] flash then

 

[DreamThrall]

haha sounds like a plan

 

[DreamThrall]

bump.... still haven't figured this one out :-\

Here is the code that adds the text to the field:

news.htmlText = news.htmlText + " [[b]" + tmpArr[0] + "[/b]]  @ [i]" + tmpArr[1] + "[/i] :: ";
news.htmlText = news.htmlText + "<TEXTFORMAT INDENT=15 LEFTMARGIN=15>" + tmpArr[2] + "</TEXTFORMAT>";

I've tested it without the html code, so I know that it works otherwise. For some reason, everything in the bold tags and the textformat tags just doesn't show up. The italic tag works fine, so I know the text field is configured properly, but I can't figure out how to make those other tags work. Any ideas?

 

[CyberSh33p]

have you checked the variables at tmpArr[0] and [2]?

 

[DreamThrall]

I've tested it without the html code, so I know that it works otherwise.

Yeah, already covered that

 

[CyberSh33p]

>_>

well, can't help you haven't dealt with this before, looks like no one else can be arsed to help either :|

 

[DreamThrall]

Hmm.... It appears that Flash MX 2004 (also known as Flash7, I've only got MX, which is flash 6) supports CSS... I might have to go [sarcasm]buy[/sarcasm] it

 

[CyberSh33p]

that could [sarcasm]help[/sarcasm]

 

[DreamThrall]

i [SARCASM]think[/SARCASM] we're [SARCASM]abusing[/SARCASM] the [SARCASM]sarcasm[/SARCASM] tags, don't you?

 

[CyberSh33p]

[sarcasm]not at all [/sarcasm]

edit: someone help thrall