Cycling Text Updated

[stereochris]

Hey - I wanted to come up with a better way to cycle through text, like the way thats listed in the tutorials somewhere. I didn't want to have to duplicate movieclips, and I didn't want the letters to appear out of order. I think I came up with something pretty good, but I bet it can be improved upon...




_root.onLoad = function() {
text = "BEATBOX INDUSTRIES TWO THOUSAND SIX";
alphabet = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWQXYZ ";
letters = new Array();
i = 0;
}
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (i < text.length) {
_root["letter"+i] == text.charAt(i) ? _root["letter"+i] = text.charAt(i) : _root["letter"+i] = alphabet.charAt(random(alphabet.length));
letters[i] = _root["letter"+i];
_root["letter"+i] == text.charAt(i) ? i++ : null;
_root["letter"+i] = alphabet.charAt(random(alphabet.length));
_root.text_txt.text = letters.join("");
}

if (Key.isDown(Key.CONTROL)) {
trace(text.length);
delete(letters);
letters = new Array();
text = text_2;
i = 0;
}
}

[Pasquale]

comes up with undefined :S?

[stereochris]

comes up with undefined :S?

I'm not sure why, I'm on a different computer now and viewed the SWF and it still worked fine... dunno

[Seb Hughes]

comes up with undefined :S?
I get that too.

[stereochris]

I get that too.

any idea why thats happening? anyone? :h:

[simplistik]

it could be because you're tryin to use text as a variable when it's reserved. i don't know though since I can't open the .fla but that's what it looks like from the code above

ie.


text = "BEATBOX INDUSTRIES TWO THOUSAND SIX";

change it and all other instances that you're using it to:


yourtext = "BEATBOX INDUSTRIES TWO THOUSAND SIX";

[Templarian]

works for me.

(IE, at school).
What flash version are you exporting it in?

simplistik is right but some flash players will still let the reserved word to be used.

[jimhere]

Works pretty well in Safari...

[LoC]

Looks pretty good but tests your patience a bit by being a bit on the slow side. Having upper and lowercase would test you patience even more...

[DDD]

I dont get it :?: I put in text and nothing happened

[H4T]

Same here....undefined error...

[gonzales]

works for me: safari.

[Seb Hughes]

Works in Ie, but not FF.

[unclesond]

Works fine for me in FF - Seems a bit of a confusing one