theoretical question.... 1

[dzr]

Ok... theoretically is this possible:

Say you had a 600/400 slide show screen with a 250/250 pic on each page. Sometimes the picture is top right, top right etc. The rest of the area is text (various L shaped text areas and such).

I'm thinking there might be a way to set the text to be a symbol of some sorts so I can just load it into the text area ... some what like page-break in Word...

I know I could do this with one screen but to click through 5 screens with one chunk of text.... could Flash tell where the text ended on the previous screen?

Basically I want to set up a template where I can just dump in a story. (maybe an option to change font size or something??)

Am I making any sense at all???

 

[wangbar]

In MX the textfield class lets you dynamically control how text appears. You can set textboxes to autosize to the text they're given, control fontsizes, align left/right/centre etc.

If you're controlling the slideshow pictures with actionscript there's no reason why you can't do the same with the text. You could create 'L' shaped textboxes by overlapping two rectangles and feeding them text from a single file substring-ed at an appropriate breakpoint.

It would be tricky, and maybe a little slow if you're doing a lot of text manipualtion, but it's definitely possible.

 

[dzr]

oh thanks! i was stuck on separate frames for each slide but dynamically loading the pictures.. yes that's great.. thanks so much.

 

[billwatson]

also might be worth while looking at this component...its pretty adaptable

http://www.flashcomponents.net/component.cfm?nav=2&id=178