Roll on dynamic text portion

[cocosama webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi,

I would like to generate a rollover effect on a dynamic text (some word on the text).
The text would come from XML data, parsed by flash.

Let me explain:

Here is the XML

<myxml>
<mytext>
<p>Hi i'm here</p>
<p>Helooo i'm still <myroll text="yeah">there</myroll></p>
</mytext>
</myxml>


What I want is to parse the XML, then assign the content of <mytext> in a dynamic text area. In this text area, moving the mouse over the text "there" (between <myroll> element) will throw the text "yeah" in a rollover effect.

I'm able to do everything, parse the XML, make the text area in action script.

The big problem comes from the creation of the rollover effect throwing "yeah". I don't have any idea how to make it in actionscript. I might create an invisible button but I don't know how to position it...

Any idea would be appreciate.
Thx for your time.

Nicolas

[Laiverd.COM]

Flash does not natively support rollover events for text, but only for
buttons and movieclip. So there is no direct way of achieving what you want.
As a matter of fact, I don't think there's any way if you want to publsh for
flashplayer 6 or earlier with dynamically loaded text.
For Flash player 7, one workaround would be to replace your <myroll
text="yeah">there</myroll> with a movieclip from the library using the IMG
tag, which then can receive onRollover events. The replacement can be done
either in your XML, or in actionscript. The latter may make things more
flexible, but that's up to you.

John

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[cocosama webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Thanks for the reply.

No problem with Flash 7, I'm able to use it and to publish my movies with it.

I tested the <img> tag in html text with a call to a movie clip. Flash does replace with the right clip from the library, but the position is right or left (default left), no way to place it in the text like an image in real HTML.

Any idea?

Thanks for your time.

Nicolas

[Laiverd.COM]

It can be done but you really have to play around with the size of the
movieclip u use. If it's too lareg it will interfere with the leading of the
text. Also; don't use the align attribute in the IMG tag.
You may wanna check this file: it display's a tooltip over text in a dynamic
textfield and uses what I described in the previous post. It's far from
perfect (the search replace function only finds one custom tag to replace),
but shows what can be done, with some work ;-)

[url]http://home.hccnet.nl/john.mulder/flash/textfield_tooltip.zip[/url]

John

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As a matter of fact; you may have to play around with the size of the
textfield in the movieclip also to prevent interferecnce with the text
leading.

john

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