[mb81]

We have developed a pretty extensive flash project that has multiple scenes and such. In each scene, there is a Dynamic text box loading external content and loading an external style sheet and applying that style to the dynamic text. It seems we are having intermittent problems with the dynamic text not following the style sheet if we flip back and forth between the scenes. Sometimes we will come back and it will fine, then we do the same thing again and the dynamic text is showing up again unstyled.

Any ideas on what we are doing wrong?

[[PAUL FERRIE]]

Hi mb81 welcome to FM
Most developers should/would tell you that it is genrally a bad idea to use scene's. There is a post round here some where about it. Scottea was the thread poster i think.

[mb81]

I don't control how it's put together, I am doing the actionscript/functionality portion. Do you have some advice that can actually help me?

[jason456]

being rude won't get you anywhere.

[mb81]

You're right, that's why I wasn't rude, if I wanted to be rude I would have called somebody a name or something. I asked a question about how to fix a problem I was having with dynamic text boxes and was told that I should get rid of scenes. I, as a programmer, completely understand, why we shouldn't use scenes, but as I stated, I am not in control of the aspect of the project and I need help on dealing with the text boxes when switching back and forth between scenes. If someone can answer that question that I first stated, that would be helpful.

[[PAUL FERRIE]]

Check this thread

[Scottae]

Originally Posted by mb81

Any ideas on what we are doing wrong?

If your flipping back and forth gets rid of the text field and then brings it back, then you need to reset the styleSheet property for the text field each time. When the text field gets done away with and then brought back, all of it's properties are reset to default. Easy way to deal with this situation is to create a method that you use to set the text for the text field. In that method, set the styleSheet property right before setting the htmlText property. Example:

Actionscript:

var dynTextField:TextField;
var css:TextField.StyleSheet;
function setText(pText:String):Void
{
	dynTextField.styleSheet = css;
	dynTextField.htmlText = pText;
}