Re: FLASH: text field-scroll

[AL Lyman]

On 19 Oct 99, at 11:52, Colin Moock 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.

> 

> also center a header, put things in quotes, separate paragraphs with a double line break,

indent the paragraph, all of which makes it better, it seems to me, 

if the text came from a text.txt file done in a text editor, with spell 

check etc. AL Lyman



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