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Galenmereth
June 1st, 2005, 10:36 AM
Here's a little experiment I did to create a more visual input field. Also, the code is pretty flexible, so that it can be used for practical things as well.

http://stars.meido-online.com/Stars/text_input/

The source can be downloaded by clicking the Flash symbol in the upper-left corner.

Other sources and experiments can be found on:

Meido (+) Stars (http://stars.meido-online.com/)

Tell me what you think :)
musicwithcolors
June 1st, 2005, 11:06 AM
that is a really cool and smooth effect u got there. it would be even cooler in my opinion if the letters would appear from the lower part of the screen to give the impression that the letter are flying from your keyboard to the screen. anyway, great job! :)
evilgoo
June 1st, 2005, 11:22 AM
awesome job, i will studying your gallery to see how it works.
Joppe
June 1st, 2005, 12:02 PM
:drool: thats very , very , very nice :drool:
pom
June 1st, 2005, 12:04 PM
Wicked! :thumb: Can you do this with Flash MX?
Galenmereth
June 1st, 2005, 03:58 PM
pom: Sure. Should be no problem at all. I'll make a Flash MX source tomorrow :)

musicwithcolors: If you check the source you'll see that doing that would be every easy :) Just change the startXpos to Stage.width/2 and startYpos to Stage.height. Voilá.
musicwithcolors
June 1st, 2005, 06:07 PM
lol! sorry. i had so much fun just playing with it i forgot about the source altogether. downloaded just now btw.
Galenmereth
June 1st, 2005, 06:52 PM
Hehe, no worries. Tell me if you need any help with it; My commenting isn't always that logical to others, I fear :)
stringy
June 1st, 2005, 07:00 PM
looks great :ko:
fasterthanlight™
June 1st, 2005, 07:49 PM
looks awesome, HOWEVER if you backspace a couple times or whatever and then type again, the new letters overlap the old ones!
GW02
June 1st, 2005, 10:48 PM
That's awesome.
However, if I try to select text, it no work. And it would be TOTALLY WICKED if the letters exploded into smithereens when you backspaced.
...or just flew off the screen. :P
Galenmereth
June 2nd, 2005, 03:37 AM
Fasterthanlight: Ah, I notice. Will look at it, I think I know the problem :)

GWing: Indeed, you can't select it, since each letter becomes a movieclip. Maybe I should extend it so that it is possible though. I'll look into it.
pom
June 6th, 2005, 12:00 PM
Did you have time to do the MX file? I'm curious :)
Seb Hughes
June 6th, 2005, 01:39 PM
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Galenmereth
June 10th, 2005, 02:20 AM
pom: I had a quick look on it, but seems a lot needs to be rewritten to MX (used some AS 2.0 in it). I'll see if I can do it when these exams end.. Which they do today, so I'll look into it in the weekend :)

Also, I'll try fixing this annoying placement bug that appears sometimes if you type then delete characters in rapid succession..