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acMnM
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August 31, 2009
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Passing text from one TLF Instance to another - Flash CS4 IDE

  • August 31, 2009
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I am a newbbie.

I am switching from dynamic textfields to TLF to accomodate the Arabic market(Right to left).

In my app, I would drag to the stage a "speech bubble"(with a nested TLF component) from a graphics library.

Then I would type something on a Editor(TLF component) and click submit.

The text should appear in the "speech bubble" but I don't know how to do that.

I can get the content from the Editor through


                    var out:String = TextFilter.export(enteredText.textFlow, TextFilter.TEXT_LAYOUT_FORMAT, ConversionType.STRING_TYPE);

Thanks

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Correct answer chicflash

Hi

i was sick on last day.  you need to typecast this object to string like this

var str:String = String(exportText);

further this str could be used to pass bubble.

Thanks

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chicflash
Inspiring
September 1, 2009

Hi,

export returns an Object not a String.

see this

function export(source:TextFlow, conversionType:String):Object;

you need to do this step

first create an object of ITextExporter

var exporter:ITextExporter = TextFilter.getExporter(TextFilter.TEXT_LAYOUT_FORMAT);

var exportText:Object = exporter.export(textFlow, ConversionType.STRING_TYPE);

trace(exportText);

After this you can assign this text to bubble

Hope this will be very helpful to you.

Thanks

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acMnMAuthor
Participant
September 1, 2009

Thanks for the reply Raja.

Could you could explain how to add the "var exportText:Object" to the TLF Instance in the Speech bubble?

This bubble can be edited multiple times from the Editor.

I am also saving the TextFlow from that bubble so the user can save and load the content again.

Appreciate your help.  I've checked everywhere but nothing makes sense to me...

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chicflashCorrect answer
Inspiring
September 3, 2009

Hi

i was sick on last day.  you need to typecast this object to string like this

var str:String = String(exportText);

further this str could be used to pass bubble.

Thanks

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