RE: FLASH: <FLASH> problems rendering special characters

[Paul Willoughby]

Hi Cornelius,


Are you sure the problem is not with the font you're using? Does it

contain all the special characters you need?

I tried the script below with the device fonts and common things like

Arial and Tahoma and all the special characters appear as they should.

'mcTextMaster' is a movie clip containing a text field called 'myText'.

It worked whether I included font outlines or not:


Set Variable: "theText" = "���"

Set Variable: "nDuplicates" = length(theText)

Loop While (i < nDuplicates)

      Set Variable: "i" = i+1

      Duplicate Movie Clip ("/mcTextMaster", "mcText" & i, i) 

      Set Variable: "/mcText" & i & ":myText" = Substring(theText, i,1)

      Set Property ("/mcText" & i, X Position) = i * 100 //just to space

the fields so I could see the result

End Loop


Is this similar to what you are trying to do? Maybe, if it's not the

font and you're getting an empty text field there might be a problem

with the path to the target text field? As far as I could tell Flash 4

renders these special characters fine. Maybe that's not the answer you

wanted, but at least if you know it's posiible you can still plan to go

climbing ;-)


paul


PS email me off list if you want a FLA with this code in 




cjaeger wrote on 11 December 2000:

 I simply putting 

> the text in a

> variable. The variable is then plucked apart using the 

> Substring command one

> by one. Each individual character is then placed in a duplicated mc

> containing a single field one character long. I tried to url 

> encode my text

> variables eg. 'die sch�nsten B�der' (I hope the Umlauts made 

> it to you)

> the text mc then duplicates the animation mc and places the 

> character 'd' in

> the first duplicate, then i in the next duplicate and so on.

> I changed the script so when it hit a '%' sign it would take 

> the next three

> characters as one viz. 'sch�nsten' written as 'sch%d6nsten' 

> the text_mc

> would grab '%d6' in one chunk and render it. Alas, the result 

> is an empty

> text field. 


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