RE: FLASH: Interesting Idea , it its possible

[Branden J. Hall]

The substring function.

There are a few problems with doing what you want to do though

a.) you would be duplicating movie clips on the fly, and duplicating lots of

MCs is very processor intensive.

b.) The kerning would get all kinds of screwy, you would have to use a fixed

with font.

c.) You would have to figure out all of the text wrapping on your own, which

is, at best a pain in the ass.


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Well if it is possible to simulate a keypress the next step would be to

open a text file with a "story" or introduction or any amount of text

and parse through it. I'm a VB programmer and would use the Mid() method

to get each letter individually from a string. With this idea you could

have tons of text appearing very nicely onto the screen. Instead of the

whole block of text fading in at once you could do each individual

letter and create a nice effect. Naturally "hard coding" that text would

be murder so parsing a string, then sending that current character as a

keypress to the movie which displays whatever key was "pressed" would be

much better. Plus you could change the content of your site just by

editing the txt file.


Well I guess we could skip the "simulated" keypress idea and go straight

from parsing a string - taking each character one at a time - and

launching the correct movie for that character. But how do you parse

strings in Flash ?


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At 10:22 AM 11/18/1999 , you wrote:

>No what I mean is simulate a key press.. so that Flash "thinks" the

user

>pressed a key mean while the flash programmer/designer actually sent

the

>key sequence to the movie.. like on the yugop site they have the

>keyboard and then you can click on other users messages and their

>messages are typed out for you... so basically how do you send a key to

>fla without the user actually pressing the key... so it's a keypress

>sent via actionscript



Why would you need to send a simulated keypress?  Why not just send the

action that would be associated with the keypress? And if you want a

graphic of a key being pressed, just put it in a movie clip and use

TellTarget to make it play.  Or am I missing something?




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