RE: FLASH: dynamic text boxes

[Scott Jeppesen]

What exactly is this for? Couldn't you just use one size text box that is

big enough to cover the largest amount of text you'll be diaplying? What is

the reason for needing different sizes? To my knowledge there is no way to

change the size of these dynamically. I had something like I had done

involving a scroll bar that was displaying from a .txt file and I only

wanted it to scroll the appropriate amount for the text and not for the size

of the text file. The best solution I came up with was to detect the Length

of the text(you have to convert any hard returns to chr(13)(I think) to get

an accurate reading and then I chose out of several different "preset" text

boxes to match as close as I could. You could get as specific as you wanted

with it but I put the text boxes in a movie clip....each frame had a dirrent

size text box. Don't know if that helps.


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Subject: FLASH: dynamic text boxes



Hello,

	Here's the problem, it's probably something simple but here it goes

anyway. I've got a variable, loading in to a text box from an external

file. What I need to do is make the text box size dynamic to how much text

is coming from the external file, the information in the external file will

be changing every few hours or so. Anybody have any ideas, I've spent a few

hours on it already and exhausted everything I could think to do.

Thanks for the help

Randy



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