Paul - I've knocked up a quick example of moving a masked movieclip which contains textfields populated by xml data. It should work with any length clue and demonstrates how to get a list of clues/textfields to autoscroll to a position - and resizes the highlight to match height of clue textfield. Just click on the numbers to get it to move.
It's not pretty and the code is a bit rough (and in AS2) - but it demonstrates the principle. You may be well ahead of this by now - but I fancied a fiddle! You can grab it here. www.flowdigital.co.uk/download/crosswordclues.zip Kev. -----Original Message----- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Paul Steven Sent: 21 May 2009 08:44 To: 'Flash Coders List' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function Thanks Kerry Yes I do have the "Advanced Lingo for Games" book that has a crossword puzzle example which has proven very helpful for the main engine behind the crossword. I also have "ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University" but that only has a word search. My main problem is being able to highlight individual clues and ensure they are visible within the scrollable area. I need to be able to put a highlight over the entire clue (which can be one or more lines long). If I put all the clues in one text field, the scrolling works fine - I am just not sure how to determine how high the highlight should be - especially as this will change if the text size is toggled. If someone clicks on a word on the crossword, if the corresponding clue is not currently visible (due to the need to scroll to get to it) I need to adjust the scroll to ensure this clue is visible and then also highlight the clue. So I effectively need to know what the scroll position is to display each clue and also how to determine the top and bottom of this clue. The highlight will extend the entire width of the clue text field so there is no need to work out widths. Any suggestions most welcome. Thanks Paul -----Original Message----- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Kerry Thompson Sent: 20 May 2009 20:11 To: 'Flash Coders List' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function Paul Steven wrote: > I am creating a crossword where the words and clues are read in from an xml > file. I need to be able to display the clues in a small area hence these > will need to scroll. I also need to highlight a particular clue if the word > on the crossword is clicked. Problem is that some clues will be on more than > one line so I am not sure how best to approach this and would appreciate > some advice. Also I need to include a function to toggle the text between > small and large. Btw I am programming this in Flash 8 with AS2.<snip> > Any advice on how best to deal with this would be really appreciated. Gary Rosenzweig has a really good book, "Macromedia Flash MX ActionScript for Fun and Games". I'm pretty sure it has the source for a crossword game in it, and it's AS2. It's pretty cheap--around a dollar on Amazon. He also has an updated book with AS3 code, "ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University". I haven't used this book, but I did use a similar book he had for Director, and I adapted his crossword code for the now defunct Learning Network. It's pretty good code, and easy to adapt. My version might even still be up on Family Education Network (www.fen.com). I haven't checked, but they inherited everything from Learning Network. Cordially, Kerry Thompson _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
