AS3 does not interpret HTML into XML

hello!

the title is auto explanatory. this doesn´t work,
it shows plain text, not formatted:

xml:

Code:

---

       
<image link="slides/pic2.jpg" title="TÃ*tulo">
                <desc>
                        <![CDATA[<font color='#"+990000+"'><b>First line Text in Bold Red color</b><font>]]>
                </desc>
        </image>

---

as3:

Code:

---

descriptionTF.htmlText = my_items[intCurrentSlide].desc;

---

thanks !!

This may seem a bit unorthodox but I use xml everyday and this works for me. Just take out your CData

Code:

---

<image link="slides/pic2.jpg" title="TÃ*tulo">
                <desc>
                        <font color='#990000'><b>First line Text in Bold Red color</b><font>
                </desc>
        </image>

---

Hope this helps. Let me know if it doesn't and I'll look further into it.

hey fellows, I´ve got it to work using it like this:

Code:

---

                <desc>
                        <![CDATA[O Floripa Music Hall traz a maior banda de heavy metal do Brasil. Ingressos ja a venda <font color='#990000'><a href='www.google.com'>Saiba mais</a></font>]]>.
                </desc>

---

but the tags <b> as well as <strong> don´t work !
i wonder why..
thankS!

Thanks!

hey jweeks123, thjanks for answering,

I took of the [[CDATA like this:

Code:

---

        <image link="slides/pic1.jpg" title="Descubra o Floripa Music Hall">
                <desc>
                        O Floripa Music Hall traz a maior banda de heavy metal do Brasil. Ingressos ja a venda <font color='#990000'><a href='www.google.com'>Saiba mais</a></font>.
                </desc>
        </image>

---

and it not only doesn´t interpret the html at all, but it also shows a blank line in the textfield, before the text..

like i posted previously, with the "CDATA" i´ve managed to work the 'font' and 'a' tags, but not the 'b'.

Thanks !

Interesting. Well, do you get the correct HTML string when you trace out the nodes value?

trace shows:


O Floripa Music Hall traz a maior banda de heavy metal do Brasil. Ingressos ja a venda <b><font color='#990000'><a href='www.google.com'>Saiba mais</a></font></b>.


funny...

Very Interesting Indeed.

If I make a textfield and set its text to that, it works as it should for me. Perhaps yours is getting reset somewhere? Perhaps a textformat is interfering? Not sure, but another idea would be to load that string into a string variable and then assign it to the textfield as HTML text.

that shows the same results as before :

Code:

---

                        var descString:String = my_items[intCurrentSlide].desc;
                       
                        if (descriptionTF)                       
                                descriptionTF.htmlText = descString;

---

and there is no text format..

textfield settings in flash ide:

anti alias for animation , render text as html, embedded characters, multiline...

tried with other settings (device fonts, etc) and Arial , tag <strong> instead of <b> in the xml file...no success!
really intriguing !

Hmmm...I wonder if it's your flash player. Sometimes I see different flash results on different machines. Do you have a source file you could attach so I may see what I get with it?

sure, how could I send it to you ?

Shoot me an email if you'd like. [email protected]

ok, there you go!
http://rapidshare.com/files/331756008/destaque.rar.html

=)

I actually need your entire source,
the xml
fla
and swf if you could.

sorry, i had sent only the swf by mistake. i´ve sent it to ur mail:)

It's all good. I've got it, and made some changes. I've sent you a new source compilation, but I'm thinking the problem lays within the font that your using on the textfields themselves.

Cmon fellas, leavin me outta the loop!

Attach is there for a reason ziriguidum ;)

LOL, you didn't miss much Phix. Our statements here pretty much sum it up, but in the end ziriguidum ended up removed the <b> tag as it wasn't working well unless device fonts were in use.

Long as it got solved.

Just givin' you hell ;)

Nothing wrong with a bit of hell raisin, LOL.