Re: FLASH: text field-scroll

[james]

This doens't work for me... it shows up as:


Hi, my name is <b>james</b>....


where the HTML code is interpreted as the returned

text/string.  Flash doesn't know the difference and

can't parse HTML, right?  



--- Colin Moock <

fritziceinc [dot] com

> wrote:

>

flasherchinwag [dot] com,Internet writes:

> >> By formatting, therefore, (as far as I know) you

> can't use that and

> >> have sentence breaks, paragraphs, a header,

> change fonts, put

> >> things in bold etc.

> >Flash has no built-in formatting for text that is

> imported using Load

> >Variables. This formatting could be added with the

> use of variables that

> >define the formatting and code that decodes these

> instructions.

> 

> john, colin here.

> it sounds like you are saying there's a method for

> controlling the

> font-style, weight, size, etc. of a single text

> field variable?

> 

> eg. suppose i have a text field variable on the main

> movie stage called

> "var1", and i then execute an action like this:

> set variable: "var1" = "hi there my name is colin."

> 

> are you saying that while assigning the text "hi

> there my name is colin" to

> var1, i could also make "hi there" bold arial 18 pt,

>  "my" italic, and "name

> is colin" times new roman 12 pt in a different

> colour?

> 

> if so, i'd be interested in hearing how.

> 

> 


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