createTextField with createEmptyMovieClip

[Tarik Monem]

Hi everyone,

I am starting to dabble with using flash as an interface for php and mysql and, while I could do what I want to do in AJAX, it wouldn't be as pretty. So I grabbed some code and started hacking. What a surprise that it's not working! I know, I know, but everything is functioning except for one thing.

I can retrieve the data with no problem using LoadVars via PHP and MySql, but my problem has to do with assigning a label of some sorts to each jpeg, namely the name of the jpeg itself.

I can do that, but the label/textfield is only there for an instant, until the next label/textfield is generated. It appears exactly where it is suppose to appear underneath the jpeg for which it represents.

The variable being passed "someXCoorComing" is actually the pic._x

Here's the code:

function onLoadInit(pic:MovieClip) {
    pic._width = 150;
    pic._height = 100;
    pic._x = 8 + 166*ipic;
    pic._y = 10;
    pic._alpha = 100;
    pic.filters = [picShadow];
    if (++ipic < pics.length) loadPic(pic._x);
}
 
function loadPic(someXCoorComing) {
    holder.createEmptyMovieClip("p"+ipic,ipic);
    holder["p"+ipic]._alpha = 0;
    mcl.loadClip("http://www.mydomain.com/registration/images/" + pics[ipic], holder["p"+ipic]);
    myLabelFunc(someXCoorComing);
}
 
 
function myLabelFunc(someXCoorComing)
{
//var txtFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
obj = _root.createTextField("mctext",0,someXCoorComing,200,1000,100);
mctext.multiline = true;
mctext.wordWrap = true;
mctext.border = false;
 
mcformat = new TextFormat();
mcformat.color = 0x5AF416;
mcformat.bullet = false;
mcformat.underline = true;
 
mctext.text = pics[ipic];
mctext.setTextFormat(mcformat);
 
return obj;
}
 

Thanks in advance,
Tarik

[rsdev]

Your textfield/label is over writing the previous one because you're not inctrementally naming themm.

_root.createTextField("textFieldName"+i etc...

Hope this helps.

[Tarik Monem]

Your textfield/label is over writing the previous one because you're not inctrementally naming themm.

_root.createTextField("textFieldName"+i etc...

Hope this helps.

Yeah, I actually thought of that, but then what do I do for setting the ".text = pics[ipic]"

 
var myTempVar = "mctext"+ipic;
var obj:TextField = _root.createTextField("mctext"+ipic,0,someXCoorComing,180,100,20);
 
mcformat = new TextFormat();
mcformat.color = 0x000000;
 
 eval(myTempVar).text = pics[ipic];
eval(myTempVar).setTextFormat(mcformat);
return obj;
 
 

[rsdev]

Yeah, I actually thought of that, but then what do I do for setting the ".text = pics[ipic]"

 
var myTempVar = "mctext"+ipic;
var obj:TextField = _root.createTextField("mctext"+ipic,0,someXCoorComing,180,100,20);
 
mcformat = new TextFormat();
mcformat.color = 0x000000;
 
 eval(myTempVar).text = pics[ipic];
eval(myTempVar).setTextFormat(mcformat);
return obj;
 
 

You use;

_root["mctext"+ipic].text = pics[ipic];

I often wish .NET was this easy.