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Hello all, i would like to know how to make a text editor who can load a text file from a url inside the text editor, ITS NO SOLUTION for a scrollbar, the editor object DONT WORK in swf mode, so somes people told me to do the crollbar with active objects...others told me complicated ways to do that...

Someone Know a real solution to this incredible and stupid problem???

stupid why??? because we are in 2012 and its impossible to make a text editor SWF with MMF2....so yes its a stupid problem.

Thanks

Well actually we are in 2013 :)

yes sorry im too nervous about that....impossible to make a text editor with MULTIMEDIA FUSION 2???? SORRY WHAT??????? MULTIMEDIA????? stop jokes please... i think im going to start seriously to learn how to do that by myself with macromedia director...

It's 2013, and there's no need for all of the capital letters and question marks...

Anyway, it's a limitation of the exporter; edit boxes use text fields in Flash, which do not support scrollbars:

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Originally Posted by Francois

The edit box object uses textfields, and textfields do not have scroll bars.

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As you have said, you would have to make a custom scrollbar for the edit box.

There's an article and example about custom scrollbars: http://community.clickteam.com/showthread.php?t=46361
There's an example here: http://community.clickteam.com/showthread.php?t=72147
There's a slide bar widget here: http://community.clickteam.com/showthread.php?t=54493 (could be adapted to be a scroll bar)

i ssdont understand why the clickteam develop because YES that extension was made by the clickteam, why he develop extensions who are INCOMPATIBLE in SWF mode and when you download EXTENSIONS with the extensionview, if you select FLASH SWF, the EDIT BOX is INSIDE.

ITS WRONG this extension is NOT COMPATIBLE SWF AT ALL. i tested verything...before developers and others people told me not its incompatible, why that kind of extensions is ont teh swf list...

ALSO need maybe to clear UPDATE the extension viewer, and why not to make a LIST for the users, of each extension wich one work under wich runtime etc... its so many BUGS to correct in mmf2 and what?? no, the team has started working on mmf3 to forgot her old baby mmf2 who is too unstable.....

slliderbar its INCOMPATIBLE IN SWF MODE TOO...

I try the custombar, looks like it works, but im f...nervous about how it workd with the clickteam, never get a solution if you ask for update or a correction THINK 2years...because i promess i asked in 2010 and in 2011 NO SOLUTIONS, NO UPDATES...thanks thanks thanks i thinks its more easy to believe in GOD.

There's a reason for everything, and it's simply not possible to cram every feature of every extension into every exporter. Clickteam do their best.

The extension is compatible with the SWF exporter; it's just the scrollbar that isn't.

You have been offered several threads as solutions to the lack of a scrollbar, but you seem to be to ignorant to use the information that's been given to you.

They're still working hard on MMF2. New builds with bug fixes and minor features are being released, as well as the new exporters (Android and HTML5 are coming up at some point in the future). If you find a bug, report it in this forum.

common guys i understand clickteam is workin, you know how many hours i work per day, i work 20h day, 12years...so dont tell me what workings mean...

Now when i sais i have asked YES i have asked MANY TIMES for solutions to problems in mmf2 and after 3 years nothing and whats allways the respons????? "where goingt to think to that and i put that on my todolist" 3years latter.....nothing of course (logical) and what people ear, the tearm are focus now on mmf3 ooooh f.... thanks guy for your honesty, he want to kill her terrible baby mmf2.

No i dont ignore the thread, im reading t and testing, but lot of files, and solutions dont work.

MULTIMEDIA FUSION its suposed to be a MULTIMEDIA TOOL made for making MULTIMEDIA SOFTWARES or GAMES, well if in 2013 we CANT MAKE A SWF TEXT EDITOR...what the hell???
other procedure, its allways the users who find solutions, allways, and the clickteam dont use that kind of ideas to implement that in mmf2 or simply correct the numerous BUGS inside mmf2 WHY THEY ARE FOCUSING IN MMF3 please FIRST FINISH THIS SOFTWARE...

"If you find a bug, report it in this forum" i asked so many times... why why why why why why...i have to repost again and again again again again again..

"The extension is compatible with the SWF exporter; it's just the scrollbar that isn't." so what he develop an extension who is working in SWF with FUNCTIONS who doent work in swf????? its completly crazy, WHY HE DONT DEVELOP AN EXTENSION wo is REALLY compatible, when you develop something for exe, or swf or others...you think ok this is workinf this too, when i see the editor object it looks like a copy and paste from a windows library without corrections or updates, the clickteam develop an extension wo is compatible in SWF MODE but the functions are INCOMPATIBLE????

WHERE IS THE LOGIC BEHIND THAT???

How long you work per day is irrelevant. The bottom line is that Clickteam are still working on MMF2, and that is currently (as far as I know) their primary focus.

The examples won't work on their own - you have to use your own knowledge, and the knowledge you gain from the examples to make it work with the edit box.

Yes, you're quite right, MMF2 is a program that can make both applications and games. You can, in-fact, make an SWF text editor with MMF2, you just have to make some custom functions like the scrollbar for the edit box.

yeah but in a case of a "text editor" any text edotr has a scollbar, its like if we are back in time in 1975 with telex systems, perforated cards etc, we are talking about a sofwtare in 2013 where its IMPOSSIBLE to make a text editor, a NORMAL TEXT EDITOR, with scrollbar etc...

i was never thinking somethibg like that was possible with mmf2...

and the only solution is to create complicated made by hand scrollbars???? and after that i have to make the functions compatible with the text editor with x-yz values or others and etc etc???

What we need is clear and easy problem reports and feature requests.

We can then look into the report and see if there is something we can do about it or just pop up a warning that this is unsupported by this object in this runtime.
Then at least you know its not suppose to work and would have to look at other options for your desire function.

Ugh. Yes, the solution is to create a scrollbar for the edit box. It's not impossible, you can do it - you just have to use the examples that I linked to previously.

I don't know what you mean in your last sentence, sorry.

Gam_master i was writing, i dont want to spent days or hour to learn how to do a scrollbar, this is a BASIC function wo need to be implemanted in the text editor.

Why its so hard to do a SIMPLE text editor??? dont tell me it's something to take MONTHS to be developed, i can't believe that.

the scrollbar dont need to be a "BONUS", why that dont come-work with the editbox....

Okay, well then I guess you won't be able to make the editor that you want; you don't want to put the effort in.

Ah well.

I have made you a self-contained flash scrollbar as an "MMF widget". This consists of two objects (both are active system boxes):

* slider
* background box

There are various properties which you can set on the slider by changing its alterable values. These are all named so you can understand what they do.

The only one you don't set manually is "slider_currentvalue" - this value contains the current value of the slider at rest and as you are moving it up and down. In the example I have included a counter which is always set to "slider_currentvalue".

So long as you have these two objects together in a frame, they will work as a scrollbar. If you want multiple scrollbars, you will need to rename the two objects. To save having to go into all of the expressions, I suggest you paste them into a blank frame and rename them there, then paste them as newly renamed objects into the original frame.

Please note that all of the events which control this are in a behaviour of the slider object.

http://community.clickteam.com/hosted_examples/flash_scrollbar/scrollbar.mfa

You can view the example here online as an SWF:
http://community.clickteam.com/hosted_examples/flash_scrollbar/scrollbar.html

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Sorry, fixed now.

le problemem est, comment faire scroller le texte de l'object "edit box" qui lui affichele texte grace au "getobj" depuis un url

Well you have to look at the edit box object and explore the options here, it's all part of the learning ;)

Look under the "Editing" -> "Scrolling" options on the edit box...

no i mean with your scrollbar, how to make the text inside the edit box scrolling when i move your scrollbar

I was trying to get you to think about the edit objects' actions and properties and work out how to do it yourself ;) It's important to learn and try to understand how things work and interact... anyway...

Reload the example, I put the edit box in there for you.

Note that for the slider object, when it is being scrolled by the user, Flag 0 will switch on. This is how you detect that the bar is scrolling.

Imothep, you say that I have not been responsive to your problems in the last month? I say this is unfair. I have answered multiple PM from you.
The reason why the edit object does not have scroll bar is that, when I programmed it, I could not include real controls in Flash app. It just did not work.
We now have a workaround for this (thanks to one of our users), and this can be done.
It was not urgent until you began screaming for it, in capital letters, no-one was asking for it. Usually people use an edit box to enter one line of text.
I can have a look and see how difficult this would be to implement. But honestly, I would rather do it for a person who does not yell at me.

Francois je n'ai rien contre toi personellement, je l'ai dit plus haut, je susi enervé parceque je trouve ca incroyable ( pour pas dire degoutant) qu'en 2013 on ne puisse pas, avec un tel logiciel, developer un SIMPLE editeur de texte, le plus simple possible sans fonction de scrollbar.
De plus les autres problemmes que j'ai eu auparavant n'ont egalemment pas étés réglés, jai eu un problemme egalemment de developpement en 2010 et il a toujours pas été réglé non plus, alors quand on essaye de developper, avec un outil qui finalement est trop cadenassé je ne sais comment, et quand on a des projets qui echouent parceque finalement les options-fonctions-compatibilités ne marchent pas, y a de quoi peter les plombs serieusement.
Comme je l'ai dit précédamment, je suis quelqun qui travaille enormement, et des fois j'ai besoin de developper des petites applications qui sont utilisées sur le web, mais si par ex un editeur n'est pas fesable avec mmf, moi ca me choque.

AUSSI, j'ai une serieuse impression, que la clickteam se consacre trop, se focalise trop sur mmf3, je comprends que mmf2 n'est absolument pas parfait et qu'il y a bien des choses a revoir, mais est ce que ce produit merite de mourrir comme ca??? petit a petit les developeurs y perdent leur interet a developper pour mmf2 et se focalisent deja sur le futur mmf3...
y a beaucoup de chsoes a corriger sur mmf2, a ajouter n'est il pas plus judicieux dy apporter un serieux coup de boost- rajeunissement, corrections avant de se consacrer a mmf3???
Autre impression, j'ai l'impression que mmf se tourne de plus en plus vers le jeu video uniquement, POURTANT c'est un logiciel qui est-serait capable de faire beaucoup plus, si on lui donnait plus de force dans le coté, developpement multimédia.

Voila, personellement ne prends pas ma rage pour une agression personelle, je n'ai aucune haine envers la clickteam, on pete tous les ploms dans la vie pour diverses raisons, et ce petit problemem la, a été la goutte qui a fait eclater (carrement) le vase :D

There are technical barriers which prevented the scrollbar from being added to the edit box as part of the object at the time. It does need some attention but it is ONE small element of a vast software development tool suite and you are the ONLY person who has had such a particular issue with this.

I must firmly say that just because something is not to your satisfaction, that does not mean you get to scream and shout at and about Clickteam. There are MANY more pressing MMF2 issues and you just have to be patient. I provided you with a very good work around which essentially works like an extension (you're welcome by the way!) so this issue is sorted for now.

Sometimes things have been missed, we are working on ways to improve communication at the moment. Please try to be more patient and respectful of staff and users on the forum.

Thanks Simon for helping him (and me). We were in a kind of angry dead end there.