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Boldening dynamically filled text box.
Hi, I have a dynamic textfield "chap1text" inside "chap1textbox", and it is gradually filled one character at a time using a script.
no matter what I do, it isn't going bold!!! Have tried a few things, what's the best way to make dynamic text bold?!
If I write the text in the textbox it works fine, but if I try and fill it with the below script it goes completely WHACK!
Thanks, Dave
Actionscript Code:
stop();
var firstName = "dug"; var companyName = "flappyjacks"; var chap1content = "blah blah blah" + firstName + "blah blah blah";
bodyTextFormat.bold = true;
var textLength = chap1content.length; var num;
num = 0;
var scorevar = _root.score;
externalvar.text = scorevar;
chap1textbox.onEnterFrame = function() { if(num >= textLength) { play(); trace(_root._currentframe); chap1textbox.chap1text.text = chap1content; } else if(num < textLength) { chap1textbox.chap1text.text = substring(chap1content, 1, num); num ++; //trace("Num = " + num + "\ntextlength = " + textLength); } else { //trace(specify number) } }
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Senior Member
what do you mean? gradually filled in? like using a mask? (which I dont see in you code anywhere?)
or do you just mean 1 character appears/is displayed in the field 1 at a time..building a word/sentence?
cant you just BOLD the text field you are using?
or use a textFormat to apply to the text field after each character is added?
I dont see either/any of that going on or even attempted?
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This script made the text came in letter by letter, at the time of writing I'd tried assigning that text format to the textbox, with no joy - same with changing the text box to bold.
After a while, I managed it with HTML text, I think it went something like this:
Actionscript Code:
chap1textbox.chap1text.html = true chap1textbox.chap1text.htmlText = "<b>" + substring(chap1content, 1, num) + "</b>";
The text then came in letter by letter, bold. Thanks for the reply!
Dave
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