Neil's XML image & TextBox tutorial question ...

[TylerNZ]

Hi!
First of all I wanna thank Neil for his awesome tutorials on his site. You do an awesome job for us semi-newbies learning 2004!

I do have a question tho. And I think it's easiest if I show you my problem!

my flash site (http://sovereign-graphics.com/flash/site.htm)

If you click the "Websites" link, you'll see my layout issue. In the HTML version I used tables to lay it out ... but obviously flash doesn't wanna know about html tables! haha.

The code for the html file that Flash is pulling in can be found in that directory as websites.html

Can anyone help me with how I can lay this out ... without the overlapping issue? Thanks!!!

OH, one more question ... if you click on "About" or "Portfolio" you'll see I've put a link in the text section ... how can I make those links affect a mc in my movie? :confused:

Thanks SO much!!!

[Mortimer Jazz]

First, thanks :]

Secondly, the only thing that I know of which comes close to tables is the tabstops property of the textformat tag (see "supported HTML tags" in the Flash dictionary). I tried creating these from an external file and couldn't get it to work.

Can you not use break tags?
I'd be tempted to use something like the scrollpane component for displaying that type of content instead. I don't really think html in Flash is good enough, and you may cause yourself a lot of headaches trying to get it right.

Your site is really nice, but I noticed that some of the menu text is blurred. I have a horrible feeling this only happens on certain players, as I noticed it happening on one of my swf just the other day. I don't know how to fix it but thought I should let you know.

btw: I've got a 'hidden' flash site on nwebb that I never finished, I got a strong suspicion that we got our inpiration from the same source, Lol ;)


Hope this helps!

[TylerNZ]

Hey Neil ... yeah ... I noticed that the menu buttons where blurry and as much as I played around with them they never turn out right!

That's actually the main reason I first went to XML then HTML in a textbox for my content, coz that way it's guarrented to NOT be blurry!

You checked my websites.html file? Coz you'll notice that I did use break-tags ... but it actually stuffs up the scroll bar ... it thinks it's got more content to scroll than what it actually has. I'll have a look at what you recommended ... and try find those ellusive PDF's on MM site on their components.

Other than that ... maybe I could write my content on a piece of paper, scan it, and bang that in there!?! HAHA

Obviously quite a bit of tweaking to do yet ... which why I've said that my site won't be ready till late December! hehe. And yeah, there's lots of great inspiration out there. And when you live in a beautiful country, it's REALLY easy to take great pic's. :)

Thanks for your reply!

[roadrunner]

a couple of reasons that you get blurry fonts is because when using pixel fonts they a:need to be either 8pt or 16pt and b: must be positioned at an absoute point ie: x 10 y 10 not x 10.2 y 10.4 etc

otherwise antialising kicks in and they blur