Change font colour in textfield 1

[ThomasJSmart]

Hi

I have an input field in flash with HTML enabled. this field contains text that can be orange or green, the contents is loaded dynamically and the colour is set via html with php before being loaded in. this works fine.

what i would like now and for which i would realy apreciate help is that when the user enters text into a field the newly entered text is coloured green. Any text already in the field which is not replaced should also be turned green, It should only make it green once the user enteres something, not if the field is just focussed.

Thanks!
Thomas



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[kennethkawamoto]

Monitor the text using "onEnterFrame". If the text is changed from the original, setTextFormat and setNewTextFormat with green colour. This will change the existing text and newly input text into green.

Do you need a code example?

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[ThomasJSmart]

that would indeed work, but isnt using an enterframe script for 100 textfields a bit heavy on the resources?


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[kennethkawamoto]

If you're not changing the text using script you can use "TextField.onChanged" handler, which may be less resource heavy than onEnterFrame.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[ThomasJSmart]

ok, this sounds much better. i would need to make a function for each field tho right?

textfield1.onChange = function(){
make text green
}

textfield2.onChange = function(){
make text green
}



any way these could be generated in some kind of loop?
something like this maybe?


for(i=1; i<100; i++){
obj = eval ('textfield'+i);

obj.onChange = function(){
make text green
}
}


i'll be at the office in another hour or 2 then i can try some things.




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[kennethkawamoto]

Something along these lines:

var tfmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
with (tfmt) {
	color = 0x009900;
}
for (var i = 1; i<=100; i++) {
	this["textField"+i].onChanged = function():Void  {
		makeTextGreen(this);
	};
}
function makeTextGreen(tf:TextField):Void {
	tf.setTextFormat(tfmt);
}

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[ThomasJSmart]

hehe can you tell im actually a php programmer ^^
this works great nice function.
Thank you very much!



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