[RESOLVED] Bullet Points In Flash

[theone27]

Im trying to create a text field with bullet points, the text editor in Flash apparently does not have a bullet point style set up. How would I create a bullet point list? thanks

[illustratedlife]

Option-8 is the keystroke. · in HTML. I believe it's Alt+0183 in Windows.

[gotoAndCrash]

if it's a dynamic text field you may need to embed the special characters...

[theone27]

That is what I was afraid of. I was hoping there was some way to use an autoformat of sorts...for once I wish something was a little like Word.

Thanks for the help

[cancerinform]

Use a stylesheet.

[illustratedlife]

All he's saying is you need to click the Embed button in the text properties and select Basic Latin. That makes sure the font is imported into your SWF.

You could do something like this for each line item:
<div>&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp; -your copy goes here- </div>

You'd have to be using an HTML text field. (I've never played with the new HTML text class. Look it up on Google if you have problems).

[gotoAndCrash]

yeah, I almost mentioned exactly how to do it in the properties pane...
but as I was typing I began to think that maybe they were looking for something like how you use an <ul><li> in html & it formats it with a bullet & indentation.
but going along with illustratedLife's example, you could use actionscript & tell the dynamic text field to add an indent & bullet with something like :
yourDynamicTextFieldInstanceName_txt.text = " • " + "your text here";
- you could make this much smarter, this is just bare-bones...
(there is 10 spaces before the bullet point - but the FK editor doesn't want to recognize them, but yes, flash recognizes the spaces).
of course, if you're looking for (ick, microSoft) "Word" - type formatting, I think you're mostly out of luck...it's up to you to tell it what to do.

[theone27]

Ok - that seems to work out well. Thanks for the help

[gotoAndCrash]

our pleasure...
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[gotoAndCrash]

oh, geez, over 100...?

[theone27]

haha. Congratulations. At the rate I am going, it won't be long for me either

[gotoAndCrash]

but the avatar form doesn't give me the option of having an avatar...?
it's just one radio button that's selected & says something like Use No Avatar...
am I missing something?

[theone27]

hmm, I do not know. Maybe they moved the posting requirement up...