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Hi,

I made a solution for you.

http://www.cornwell.org/spacechecker.html
you can download the .fla
http://www.cornwell.org/spacechecker.fla

I'm not sure if this is the best method, but the...

Absolutely.

http://www.cornwell.org/buttontext.fla

There's some instructions to the right of the stage :)

Pat

At the moment, you are putting the movie clip physically inside your button in the 'over' frame.

The method you want to use to control both 'over' and 'out' is by having a seperate movie clip to...

Oh yes, you can load movies. Forgot about those little things. Ho ho. (bangs head) - it's been a long day :)

The movie clip is literally a .swf stored in the path you specify. When you load it into another movie clip, that is so you can target it effectively. Think of the thing you are loading as a file,...

Sounds like the keyframe created to run the stop action contains a textfield that has a different name to the other one. You can check its properties, or perhaps create a layer away from the one with...

If each duplicated movie clip receives a different instance name, then you can use that to differentiate the buttons.

On the Button's Instance properties you can put

On (Release)
Set Variable:...

You can't. Flash itself won't load anything other than ASCII in playback.

Hi,

It does work. One thing I've noticed is that there should be at least one frame between the loading of the initial text file and the loading of the dynamically built one. For some reason Flash...

the two dots indicates one level 'shallower' than the movie clip it is being called from.

In your case, 'n' is a variable that resides in a movieclip 'shallower' than itself.

e.g.

Main...

The other computer's browsers might still have the Flash 3 plugin (IE4 has it as standard), which have no variable capability.

The /: is the reference to a varible on the main timeline.

I.E. Using Tell Target, you would reference the main timeline as '/' in a movie clip and the ':' is the actionscript syntax for a...

You're right Robert. Well spotted!

I understand fully what you say. I took the time to parse your text several times though, I have to admit!!

If you want to send the .fla to pat@cornwell.org and tell me where the various bits of...

In flash 4, this isn't possible. Focus is set only by the user. Seems Flash 5 has a .setfocus command within its new actionscript, but until then, sorry!

Have you changed the box with 'value4' in it to an expression instead of a string literal?

Also, sometimes flash doesn't like to deal with imported text/variables in the same box that loaded them...

I spotted one thing that rang alarm bells:

in your duplicate movie clip line:

Duplicate Movie Clip ("/dropclip", "/dropclip"&i, i)

you have given the new movie clip a target - but that's not...

I did it by using a javascript function that reads anything after the '=' in the URL field (I didn't know about getArgs before!) It works in NS and IE, but will only cater for one variable. If this...

Not in Flash 4. Flash 5 out later in the year appears to have a .setfocus property in its actionscripting.

Pat

Given the size and profile of a company like Whitbread I am quite taken back at that use of flash on their front page. What on earth does that say to their investors/shareholders?

On the...

Flash won't cater for future events if you execute the explicit code in one button press unfortunately.

A lot of work I do now involves writing, what I call little 'checkers' - these are...

Hello,

Welcome! Although I'm not a regular poster, I understand what it feels like when the big bad world of actionscript starts taking over, so don't worry - I'm sure everyone's been in the same...

Just started a site for a client with this kind of thing.
you just need to have a movie clip with a textfield in it. Call the textfield anything you like, for instance 'text', and call the movie...

You need to add a Stop action to your first and last frames of the movie clip. Movie clips will, unless told, run and loop as soon as they are visible on the timeline.

Thanks Eddie, yeah.
This is the work-around mask which was considered earlier.

I'm not printing from web pages by the way - I'm using the Get URL :printAsBitmap: command, from within the movie...