hi, i was wondering if its possible 2

[martinb7]

hi, i was wondering if its possible to recreate this javascript textbox countdown in flash (

http://freehosting.hostrave.com/b/mjb3000/index.php?p=news&s=create

)

That is my website

what it does is everytime you put a character in the textbox, it subtracts 1 from the remaining characters left.

Possible to recreate in Flash MX?

Thanx

Martin

 

[billwatson]

dynamic textbox count, input text box input, code on timeline

count.text = 200;
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
y = input.text.length;
count.text = 200 - y;
}

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[firegambler]

just because i'm nosy: :

how can one prevent the user from typing more than the specified amount of chars?

regards

 

[billwatson]

input.maxChars = 200;

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[firegambler]

thanks!

regards