Paragraph return inside frame action

[gataviano]

This is the frame action I have in my Flash movie. All I am trying to do is put a line break (paragraph return) in between two words inside of a dynamic text box with a name of textpara1. Any help would be greatly appreciated......thanks!

_root.textpara1="Lines & newline & Menus"

This is my value in the frame action, and it's set to literal.


[Edited by gataviano on 05-22-2001 at 03:23 PM]

[deadbeat]

Try:

_root.textpara1="Lines" + newline + "Menus";

HTH,

K.

[gataviano]

_root.textpara1 = PeopleCode Objects are stored on the Database Server, contained in an Oracle database, and consist of: + newline + ·Menus + newline + ·Panels + newline + ·Records and fields + newline + ·PeopleCode

The variable _root.textpara1 is set to this value as a literal. Still not working with this code.......

[FlashGuru]

basically in your string which is stored in the server you need to set a delimiter that will later be replaced with the newline character, ie.

Menus/·Panels/·Records and fields/·PeopleCode

Now when you want to set the value of the dynamic textfile use this:

splitstring=_root.textpara1.split("/")
_root.textpara1="";
for(z=0;z<splitstring.length;++z){
    _root.textpara1+=splitstring[z]+newline;
}

u need more let me know

[gataviano]

Would there be anyway you could put that in English? LOL.....sorry, just couldn't understand it. I have a frame action and a dynamic text box....if you could give me the lingo for those two that would be great. Thanks!

[gataviano]

Does anyone know how to figure this out?

[deadbeat]

If you're just trying to set the variable to a string value, from a frame action, the problem is with your quotation marks (or lack of them)...try this:

_root.textpara1 = "PeopleCode Objects are stored on the Database Server, contained in an Oracle database, and consist of: "+ newline + "·Menus" + newline + "·Panels" + newline + "·Records and fields" + newline + "·PeopleCode";

K.

[MightyLlama]

well the easiest way Ive found to get a carraige return in Flash 5 dynamic text is to check the HTML code box on the text options, and thow in a couple <br>'s into the code, really handy for dynamic lists, example of how to use would be

mytext="hello <br> this is a new line";

thats it =)

[gataviano]

Never thought of the HTML idea.......worked very easily. The newline didn't work for some reason. Not sure if anyone has an example of that I could look at? Thanks a lot!