Re: [Flashcoders] keeping dynamic text persistent during animation
Zeh Fernando wrote: Wrap the textfield with a movieclip. Then the designer can move and animate the movieclip around in any way he pleases, but you just do modifications to the textfield that's inside. But don't you still run into the same problem, because the designer has to be sure that they don't break the hooked-in instance of the clip containing the TextField. Depends on what he's doing. As long as the instance has a name, it'll continue to perform as expected. The problem is that changing a property of it by code breaks the attachment to the timeline, or vice versa. Doing manual transformations on the main object but code transformations on the internal movie (textfield in this case) makes a 'stack' of changes so it works well. Zeh ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] keeping dynamic text persistent during animation
Zeh Fernando wrote: Wrap the textfield with a movieclip. Then the designer can move and animate the movieclip around in any way he pleases, but you just do modifications to the textfield that's inside. But don't you still run into the same problem, because the designer has to be sure that they don't break the hooked-in instance of the clip containing the TextField. New keyframes for instances of objects that are supposed to be manipulated by code is hell. Yeah, exactly! It's hell. And I just don't get the Flash timeline, but that should be Flash101! Zeh ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] keeping dynamic text persistent during animation
Wrap the textfield with a movieclip. Then the designer can move and animate the movieclip around in any way he pleases, but you just do modifications to the textfield that's inside. New keyframes for instances of objects that are supposed to be manipulated by code is hell. Zeh Andrew Sinning wrote: This isn't actually a coding problem, but here it goes: I'm working with AS2 in CS3. During an animation, there is some dynamic text that needs to be hidden and revealed. I have one continuous layer of text with just the initial keyframe. The font is embedded. If I put the text layer under a mask in order to hide/reveal it depending on the location on the timeline, when the playback head goes crosses the hide/reveal threshold the value of the dynamic text reverts to the value setup on the timeline. Is there a way to do this _without_ AS? I want to keep the animation open for the designer. Thanks! ___ 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
RE: [Flashcoders] keeping dynamic text persistent during animation
You also have the option of nulling out the text on screen when you don't want to see it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Sinning Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:24 AM To: Flash Coders Subject: [Flashcoders] keeping dynamic text persistent during animation This isn't actually a coding problem, but here it goes: I'm working with AS2 in CS3. During an animation, there is some dynamic text that needs to be hidden and revealed. I have one continuous layer of text with just the initial keyframe. The font is embedded. If I put the text layer under a mask in order to hide/reveal it depending on the location on the timeline, when the playback head goes crosses the hide/reveal threshold the value of the dynamic text reverts to the value setup on the timeline. Is there a way to do this _without_ AS? I want to keep the animation open for the designer. Thanks! ___ 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] keeping dynamic text persistent during animation
This isn't actually a coding problem, but here it goes: I'm working with AS2 in CS3. During an animation, there is some dynamic text that needs to be hidden and revealed. I have one continuous layer of text with just the initial keyframe. The font is embedded. If I put the text layer under a mask in order to hide/reveal it depending on the location on the timeline, when the playback head goes crosses the hide/reveal threshold the value of the dynamic text reverts to the value setup on the timeline. Is there a way to do this _without_ AS? I want to keep the animation open for the designer. Thanks! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
