RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function

2009-05-22 Thread Paul Steven
Coders List' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function Now Glen's suggestion will work - just stick a dynamic textfield offscreen, set font to Times New Roman, and embed fonts in that. That seems to make the font available to FP8 9. -Original

RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function

2009-05-21 Thread Paul Steven
...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Bath Sent: 20 May 2009 22:32 To: 'Flash Coders List' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function Paul - why don't you use a scrollpane, add all the clues

RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function

2009-05-21 Thread Paul Steven
-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

RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function

2009-05-21 Thread Kevin Bath
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

Re: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function

2009-05-21 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
. -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

RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function

2009-05-21 Thread Paul Steven
:33 To: 'Flash Coders List' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function 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

RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function

2009-05-21 Thread Paul Steven
...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Glen Pike Sent: 21 May 2009 12:38 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function You are probly missing a font... Paul Steven wrote: Kev, when I publish this for Flash Player 8 or 9 the text does

Re: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function

2009-05-21 Thread Glen Pike
. -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

RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function

2009-05-21 Thread Paul Steven
: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Bath Sent: 21 May 2009 11:33 To: 'Flash Coders List' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function Paul - I've knocked up a quick example of moving

Re: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function

2009-05-21 Thread Glen Pike
: RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function 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

RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function

2009-05-21 Thread Kevin Bath
-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Glen Pike Sent: 21 May 2009 12:38 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function You are probly missing a font... Paul Steven wrote: Kev, when I publish this for Flash Player 8 or 9 the text

RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function

2009-05-21 Thread Kevin Bath
: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Glen Pike Sent: 21 May 2009 12:38 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function You are probly missing a font... Paul Steven

RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function

2009-05-21 Thread Paul Steven
Of Kevin Bath Sent: 21 May 2009 13:50 To: 'Flash Coders List' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function Yay! Will work with FP9 and 8 if you add... txtClue.embedFonts = true; (doh - sorry) -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun

RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function

2009-05-21 Thread Paul Steven
To: 'Flash Coders List' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function Yay! Will work with FP9 and 8 if you add... txtClue.embedFonts = true; (doh - sorry) -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun

RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function

2009-05-21 Thread Kevin Bath
...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Paul Steven Sent: 21 May 2009 14:32 To: 'Flash Coders List' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function Bah - added the txtClue.embedFonts = true; but still no text. Is there a particular font I need to have? I can't see any

RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function

2009-05-21 Thread Paul Steven
: Re: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function I am guessing you might want to publish for older players to see it working - can't open the file as I only have CS3 here, sorry. Try chucking a text field with the Times font embedded off the stage somewhere

Re: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function

2009-05-21 Thread Charles Parcell
But will Kevin make an honest file? :) Couldn't resist. Charles P. On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Paul Steven paul_ste...@btinternet.comwrote: snip I really appreciate your time knocking up this file. Cheers Paul -Original Message- I've knocked up a quick example of moving a

RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function

2009-05-20 Thread Kerry Thompson
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

RE: [Flashcoders] Advice on creating dynamic crossword cluesth resize function

2009-05-20 Thread Kevin Bath
Paul - why don't you use a scrollpane, add all the clues as separate mc's into this component. That way you can target them separately to change the text colour if you click on a square. You could space the clue mc's by using the textheight property of the textfield within the clue mc. If you