dynamic text boxes

[m8rksimons]

Hi,

Not sure if this is in the correct section, sorry if not!

I have got a php page with a rich text editor that updates a dynamic text box in my flash file.

I can add bullet points etc, but i can't change the text colour, size etc via the rich text editor as it just remains how it formatted in flash.

Any ideas how i make the dynamic text box reflect the formatting of the rich text editor and not how it is set in flash.

Many thanks,

Mark

[a_modified_dog]

take a read of TextFormat in the Help files

in Flash 8 -
ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference > ActionScript classes > TextFormat

Use the TextFormat class to create specific text formatting for text fields. You can apply text formatting to both static and dynamic text fields.

[m8rksimons]

thanks for the reply, however thats not really answering my question.

I need to make the dynamic text box not be formatted in anyway within flash, but from a rich text input field within a PHP web page.

I hope this clarifies my problem, sorry if i didn't explain it very well before.

[Josiah]

Hello,

You'll need to make sure your dynamic text box is checked to RENDER as HTML and then you can pass a php string to it. The php string can set your html formatting for you...something like:

$newsText = "";
$newsText .= '<font color="#0000FF" size="18">';
$newsText .= stripslashes($row['title']);
$newsText .= '</font><br>';

// Add date posted and author name in small font
$newsText .= '<font color = "#666666" size="12">';
$newsText .= $posted . " by " . $row['author'];
$newsText .= '</font><br>';

// Add news item body with a double linebreak
$newsText .= HTMLSpecialChars($row['body']) . '<font color = "#666666" size="16"><br><br>---------------------------------------------------<br><br></font>';
//$newsText .= HTMLSpecialChars($row['body']) . '<br><br><img src="horz.gif"><br><br>';

// EMAIL PARSER
$newsText = ereg_replace("[[:alpha:]]+@[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]]","<font color=\"#FF0000\"><u><a href=\"mailto:\\0\">\\0</a></u></font>", $newsText);

// URL PARSER FOR MESSAGE
$newsText  = ereg_replace ("[[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]]", "<font color=\"#FF0000\"><u><a href=\"\\0\"target=\"_blank\">\\0</a></u></font>", $newsText);

$newsText = ereg_replace("\[url\]([^\[]+)\[/url\]", "<font color=\"#1E71B8\"><u><a href=\"\\1\"target=\"_blank\">\\1</a></u></font>", $newsText);

// BOLD, ITALICS, UNDERLINE AND PRE PARSER
$searchFor = Array ('', '', '[pre]', '[/pre]', '', '', '', '');
$replaceWith = Array ('<b>', '</b>', '<pre>', '</pre>', '<i>', '</i>', '<u>', '</u>');
$newsText = str_replace ($searchFor, $replaceWith, $newsText);

// END PARSING SECTION 

// Output news items back to Flash
print "&newsText=". urlencode ($newsText);