Adding line breaks in AS3

[Guest]

I'm attempting to add line breaks after the code I've included below. I know that I need to add a "\n" after the line of text, but I haven't had any success.

textField.appendText(""+ bldg.S11.Title.text())
textField.appendText("Square Footage: "+ bldg.S11.SF.text())
textField.appendText("Tenant: "+ bldg.S11.Tenant.text())
textField.appendText("Status: "+ bldg.S11.Status.text())

Thank you.

[Chipleh]

if textField is rendering htmlText (i.e. - textField.htmlText = "";), you can use <br> tags, i.e.:

textField.appendText(""+ bldg.S11.Title.text() + '<br>');

[Guest]

Adding the  + '<br>'); to the end of the line of the text now adds <br> between each line. I have set the text box to render text as html if that makes a difference.

Shops 1 - Unit 101<br>Square Footage: 4,204<br>Tenant: TBD<br>Status: Available<br>

Thank you.

[kglad]

you must assign htmlText, not text, to use html in your strings.

[Guest]

Heres my code thus far. I made the changes from what I understood you were talking about. This generates an error: 1195: Attempted access of inaccessible method htmlText through a reference with static type flash.text:TextField.

I found this code online which says I need to add somewhere. I'm not sure where.

var myText:String = "<p>This is <b>some</b> content to <i>render</i> as <u>HTML</u> text.</p>"; 
testField.htmlText = myText;

I'm also not sure what the "myText" would change to in regard to my code.

My Code:

var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();

xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, showXML);

xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest("Talega.xml"));

function showXML(e:Event):void {

XML.ignoreWhitespace = true;

var bldg:XML = new XML(e.target.data);

var i:Number;

for (i=0; i < bldg.S11.length(); i++) {

textField.htmlText(""+ bldg.S11.Title.text() + '<br>');

textField.htmlText("Square Footage: "+ bldg.S11.SF.text() + '<br>');

textField.htmlText("Tenant: "+ bldg.S11.Tenant.text() + '<br>');

textField.htmlText("Status: "+ bldg.S11.Status.text() + '<br>');

}

}

[kglad]

my error.  use:

var myText:String = "<p>This is <b>some</b> content to <i>render</i> as <u>HTML</u> text.</p>"; 
testField.html = true;
testField.multiline=true;
testField.wordWrap=true;
testField.text = myText;

[Kenneth Kawamoto · Accepted solution]

You have to have a TextField called "textField" and it needs "wordWrap" and "multiline" properties set to true (as in kglad's post - but there is no "html" property for AS3 TextField class).

Then you can either use html text or normal text:

           // html text
            var myText:String = new String();
            for(var i:uint = 0; i < bldg.S11.length(); i++){
                myText += bldg.S11.Title + "<br />";
                myText += "Square Footage: " + bldg.S11.SF + "<br />";
                myText += "Tenant: " + bldg.S11.Tenant + "<br />";
                myText += "Status: " + bldg.S11.Status + "<br />";
            }
            
            textField.htmlText = myText;

           // normal text
           var myText:String = new String();
           for(var i:uint = 0; i < bldg.S11.length(); i++){
                myText += bldg.S11.Title + "\n";
                myText += "Square Footage: " + bldg.S11.SF + "\n";
                myText += "Tenant: " + bldg.S11.Tenant + "\n";
                myText += "Status: " + bldg.S11.Status + "\n";
            }
            
            textField.text = myText;

[Guest]

Success! Thank you.

I have one more question that I think you can answer rather quickly.

I have a button that will load an XML file. I have the button code (below) and then the xmlLoader code shown below that.

What would I need to add and to where to make the event.target load the XML text. There are a series of these in the same fla file so I would have this same line of coding placed under each movie clip.

Button:

s63.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);

s63.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, mcOver);

s63.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, mcOut);

function mcOut( event:MouseEvent):void

{

event.target.alpha = 1;

}

function mcOver( event:MouseEvent):void

{

event.target.alpha = 0.5;

}

function onClick( event:MouseEvent):void

{

event.target.

}

s63.buttonMode = true;

xmlLoader:

var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();

xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, showXML);

xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest("Talega.xml"));

function showXML(e:Event):void {

XML.ignoreWhitespace = true;

var bldg:XML = new XML(e.target.data);

var i:Number;

var myText:String = new String();

textField.multiline=true;

textField.wordWrap=true;

textField.text = myText;

            for (i=0; i < bldg.S11.length(); i++) {

                myText += bldg.S11.Title + "<br />";

                myText += "Square Footage: " + bldg.S11.SF + "<br />";

                myText += "Tenant: " + bldg.S11.Tenant + "<br />";

                myText += "Status: " + bldg.S11.Status + "<br />";

            }

            textField.htmlText = myText;

}

Thank you again. This is much appreciated.

[Kenneth Kawamoto]

Do you mean something like:

function onClick(e:MouseEvent):void {
       loadXML();
 }
function loadXML():void {
     var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
     xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, showXML);
     xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest("Talega.xml"));
}
function showXML(e:event){
     // process XML
}