html formatting question

[ColdFusionKing]

Hi all, I have a dynamic textfield in a movie clip. The flash movie loads a text file and displays the contents of a html file in a dynamic text field. In the html file (the file containing the content), I have a number of <br> tags

&article_content1=Some sample text <br> Some more sample test&
&article_content2=Article 2 sample text <br> This is a news article&
&no_of_feeds=2&

When I publish the flash, I see <br>'s displayed on my page, How do I get round this problem? If I remove the <br> tags and use the enter key, I see an additional line break. This is how the above text is displayed

1)
Some sample text
<!-- I don't want this additional line break -->
Some more sample test

2)
Article 2 sample text

This is a news article

I want to display it like this

1)
Some sample text
Some more sample test

2)
Article 2 sample text
This is a news article

If I enable html rendering the problem is solved, but by doing this the Italics text effect is lost.

Can you think of something?

 

[billwatson]

did you try this with html enabled

&article_content1=<i>Some sample text</i> <br> Some more sample test&
&article_content2=<i>Article 2 sample text</i> <br> This is a news article&
&no_of_feeds=2&

 

[ColdFusionKing]

yes, and this does the trick, but because the content will be entered by a publisher with no knowledge of html, I can't go with this option. Is there a way to programatically say that replace the <br> character with a new line character?

 

[oldnewbie]

What are you saying? The publisher can insert a <br> tag but not a <i> tag?

Regards,

 

[ColdFusionKing]

sorry my bad! I don't want any html formatting in my html file. If the publisher enters some text, then hits the enter key (return key), the text gets displayed like this.

Article 2 sample text

This is a news article

(Notice the extra line break)
Whereas I want it to be displayed like this:

Article 2 sample text
This is a news article

I can get it to display it like that if I enable &quot;Rendering text as html&quot;, but if I enable that, I loose the font Italic style even when the italic style toogle is checked in the dynamic text field properties editor. Can you suggest something?

 

[oldnewbie]

Have you modified the .fla of the link you posted in any way, outside of playing with the html and italic tabs?

http://www.x-rail.net/temp/newsscroller.zip

Can you post a link to your present .fla and to your present text file?

Regards,

 

[billwatson]

just let the client enter the text as they like then strip out the hard line breaks and replace with <br>

lv = new LoadVars()
lv.onLoad = function(){
my.htmlText = lv.content.split('\r\n').join('<br>');
}
lv.load(&quot;some.txt&quot

 

[oldnewbie]

Regards,

 

[ColdFusionKing]

unfortunately I can't upload my fla to any repository. I can email it to you if you give me your email address. I have not made many changes to the fla which you have access to, I have removed the date_clip layers, title_clip layers, article_link layers and Important_clip layers, have also commented the action script. This is the present code I'm using

// set the variables loaded from CF into their respective locations
//date_clip.article_date = eval(&quot;article_date&quot;+count);
//title_clip.article_title = eval(&quot;article_title&quot;+count);

article_clip.article_content = eval&quot;article_content&quot;+count);
//article_link = eval(&quot;article_link&quot;+count);
//Important_clip.article_important = eval(&quot;article_important&quot;+count);
// if the counter reaches the max number of articles then reset it
// if not then increment it
if (count == no_of_feeds) {
count = 1;
} else {
count = count+1;
}

Bill, I am reading the contents from a html file and not a text file using the loadVariables function
loadVariables(&quot;supportFeed.html&quot;, &quot;content&quot

&quot;Content&quot; is the name of the movie clip. In there I have some action script.

On Frame 1:
// initialize the counter
count = 1;
stop();

On Frame 2:

article_clip.article_content = eval&quot;article_content&quot;+count);

// if the counter reaches the max number of articles then reset it
// if not then increment it
if (count == no_of_feeds) {
count = 1;
} else {
count = count+1;
}

There is a movie clip within this mc called &quot;article_clip&quot; which has the dynamic text field &quot;article_content&quot;.

 

[ColdFusionKing]

I'm sorry I could'nt get back to you yesterday

Regards
Allan

 

[ColdFusionKing]

oldnewbie, I've emailed you the fla and html file you asked for to your hotmail a/c.

Cheers
Allan