1. Tween TextField alpha to 0.
2. Tween background MovieClip to height 0.
3. Change the text.
4. Tween the background MovieClip to height of the changed TextField.
5. Tween TextField alpha back to 1.

Unfortunately, when creating the timeline sequence the height of the TextField got “cached” and was not updated on runtime after the text of the TextField had changed. My workaround on this is to append to the timeline after the text has been changed, and not build the whole sequence at once.

Not sure how this would work if there had to be things done after updating the texts, but I assume you can insert at a specific time/label in the Timeline, so that would solve it, I assume.

Textbox SWF

Hm, not in the swf but I added code to remove the tweens once they are done, otherwise it keeps appending to the end of the timeline each time the animation is run.

Code:

import com.greensock.*;
import com.greensock.easing.*;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;

button_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, update);
reset_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, reset);
button_mc.buttonMode = true;
reset_mc.buttonMode = true;
popup_mc.x = 0;
popup_mc.y = 50;

popup_mc.body_txt.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;

var texts:Array = new Array();
texts.push("Cotton candy sweet roll carrot cake candy. Jelly tart tart icing wafer carrot cake biscuit macaroon. Sweet roll pie faworki marshmallow bonbon bear claw. Chocolate caramels cake sweet roll marzipan. Lemon drops icing wafer soufflé brownie brownie candy canes donut. Muffin pastry gummies sweet roll dragée caramels jelly apple pie. Carrot cake fruitcake marzipan fruitcake dragée biscuit tootsie roll cookie. Marshmallow bonbon oat cake. Pudding cake gummies bonbon dessert caramels sugar plum candy bonbon. Wafer candy canes tiramisu brownie jelly-o. Liquorice pastry pie. Toffee dessert pie. Chocolate cake biscuit lemon drops gummies jelly-o cake cake candy canes sesame snaps.");
texts.push("Jelly beans macaroon brownie dragée. Jelly chocolate cake chupa chups caramels pastry sweet roll marshmallow. Liquorice gummies sweet roll. Tart liquorice chocolate faworki cake cake. Icing pastry marzipan jelly-o bear claw cookie ice cream lemon drops. Jelly-o bear claw tart applicake. Ice cream pie sweet tootsie roll gummi bears dessert cotton candy. Bonbon bear claw bonbon pudding. Gummies jelly-o liquorice candy canes sweet roll. Bonbon apple pie marzipan pastry jelly beans marzipan chocolate bar powder. Cake biscuit candy lemon drops marshmallow chocolate cake applicake. Jelly beans croissant pie applicake apple pie sugar plum lollipop.");
texts.push("Tootsie roll croissant liquorice. Dragée chocolate cake macaroon. Chocolate bar gummi bears ice cream faworki wypas. Bonbon bear claw candy cotton candy gummies dessert. Sesame snaps cotton candy marshmallow soufflé jujubes gingerbread pie pudding. Topping icing tiramisu pie bonbon halvah. Fruitcake wypas tootsie roll wafer icing. Brownie topping sweet roll carrot cake faworki chocolate bar gummies cookie chocolate. Bear claw pudding muffin candy canes. Fruitcake croissant chocolate apple pie donut brownie cotton candy jelly sweet roll. Carrot cake lemon drops caramels icing muffin halvah. Croissant biscuit muffin marshmallow. Candy jelly-o candy canes sweet roll caramels wypas gingerbread danish.");

var tm:TimelineMax = new TimelineMax({onComplete: removeOldTweens});
tm.stop();
tm.appendMultiple([new TweenLite(popup_mc.header_txt, 1, {alpha: 0}), new TweenLite(popup_mc.body_txt, 1, {alpha: 0})]);
tm.appendMultiple([new TweenLite(popup_mc.greenBody_mc, 1, {height: 0}), new TweenLite(popup_mc.greenArrow_mc, 1, {y: popup_mc.greenHeader_mc.y + 25})]);
tm.append(new TweenLite(popup_mc, 1, {x: 50}));
tm.addCallback(changeText, 3);

var headerTween:TweenLite;
var bodyBgTween:TweenLite;
var arrowTween:TweenLite;
var textFieldTween:TweenLite;

function changeText():void {
	popup_mc.header_txt.text = "Another headline on this information box";
	popup_mc.body_txt.text = texts[int(Math.random() * 2)];
	popup_mc.body_txt.width = 290;

	// append to timeline
	headerTween = new TweenLite(popup_mc.header_txt, 1, {alpha: 1});
	bodyBgTween = new TweenLite(popup_mc.greenBody_mc, 1, {height:  popup_mc.body_txt.height+10});
	arrowTween = new TweenLite(popup_mc.greenArrow_mc, 1, {y: popup_mc.body_txt.height+10+25});
	textFieldTween = new TweenLite(popup_mc.body_txt, 1, {alpha: 1});

	tm.append(headerTween);
	tm.appendMultiple([bodyBgTween, arrowTween]);
	tm.append(textFieldTween);
}

function removeOldTweens():void {
	tm.remove(headerTween);
	tm.remove(bodyBgTween);
	tm.remove(arrowTween);
	tm.remove(textFieldTween);

	headerTween = null;
	bodyBgTween = null;
	arrowTween = null;
	textFieldTween = null;
}

function update(e:MouseEvent):void {
	tm.play();
}

function reset(e:MouseEvent):void {
	popup_mc.x = 0;
	popup_mc.y = 50;
	popup_mc.header_txt.text = "Header text!";
	popup_mc.body_txt.text = "Blah blah";
	tm.gotoAndStop(0);
}

In case your content doesn’t scroll all the way back up, I found that this piece of code helps to work things out:

var target:Number = ((myContent.height * 1.2 - myMask.height) * percentage) - myMask.y;

So, multiply your content’s height with 20 % or something like that. It gives you a little bit of margin so you might experiment with this number. Then, instead of adding the y position of the mask to the target number, subtract it.

This did the trick for me!

var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest("thefiletoload.xml");
req.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
req.data = true;
loader.load(req);

Method 2:

var userFilePath:String = "thefiletoload.xml";
if(Capabilities.playerType != "StandAlone" || Capabilities.playerType != "External") {
userFilePath += "?rnd=" + Math.random();
}

I.e. don’t do:

new URLRequest("myfile.php");

Do:

new URLRequest("http://mydomain.com/myfile.php");

private function printAsPDF():void {
            trace("CREATE PDF");
            
            var pdf:PDF = new PDF();
            var page:Page = new Page(Orientation.LANDSCAPE, Unit.MM, Size.A4);
            pdf.addPage(page);
            pdf.setMargins(0, 0, 0, 0);
            pdf.setDisplayMode(Display.REAL, Layout.SINGLE_PAGE, PageMode.USE_NONE, 1.0);
            // this is the image/movie clip container we're saving to the PDF
            var img:Sprite = Sprite(Canvas.getInstance());
            
            var bmpData:BitmapData = new BitmapData(img.width, img.height, true, 0xFFFFFF);
            var matrix:Matrix = new Matrix();
            matrix.createBox(2, 2, 0, 100, 100);
            bmpData.draw(img, matrix, null, null, null, true);
            
            var res:Resize = new Resize(Mode.FIT_TO_PAGE, Position.CENTERED);
            pdf.addImage(img);
            
            var f:FileReference = new FileReference();
            f.save(pdf.save(Method.LOCAL), "min_pdf.pdf");
        }

import flash.geom.*;

var drawingBox:Sprite;/*resized sprite that acts as a selector*/
var stageObjects:Array = createRandomObjects(20);/*array of stage objects that might be selected*/

var mouseStart:Point;

/*drawing properties of drawingBox*/
var stroke:GraphicsStroke = new GraphicsStroke();
	stroke.thickness=1;
    stroke.fill = new GraphicsSolidFill(0x333399, .5);
var fill:GraphicsSolidFill = new GraphicsSolidFill(0x444444,.5);
var graph:Vector.<IGraphicsData>;
var path:GraphicsPath;

stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,MD,false,0,true);/*start drawing box*/
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,MU,false,0,true);/*select objects*/

function createRandomObjects(n:int):Array
{
	var a:Array=new Array();
	for(var i:int=0;i<n;i++)
	{
		var s:Sprite = new Sprite;
		s.graphics.beginFill(Math.random()*0xFFFFFF);
		s.graphics.drawRect(0,0,20,20);
		s.x=Math.random()*stage.stageWidth;
		s.y=Math.random()*stage.stageHeight;
		s.alpha=.5;
		s.name = String(i);
		a.push(s);
		addChild(s);
	}
	return(a);
}

function MD(e:MouseEvent):void
/*MOUSE DOWN - start drawing square*/
{
	// removes previous one
	if(drawingBox!=null)drawingBox.parent.removeChild(drawingBox);
	drawingBox=new Sprite;
	addChild(drawingBox);
	mouseStart=new Point(mouseX,mouseY);
	addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, EF,false,0,true);

	for(var i:int=0; i<stageObjects.length; i++)
	{
		stageObjects[i].alpha=.5;
		stageObjects[i].rotation=0;
	}
}

function MU(e:MouseEvent):void
/*MOUSE UP - remove square and hit test everything under it*/
{
	removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, EF,false);
trace('Selected objects are:');
	/*run a hit test for drawingBox against stageObjects*/
	for(var i:int=0; i<stageObjects.length; i++)
	{
		if(drawingBox.hitTestObject(stageObjects[i]))
		{
			stageObjects[i].alpha=1;
			stageObjects[i].rotation=45;
trace('Hit ' + stageObjects[i].name);
		}
	}
	drawingBox.graphics.clear();
}

function EF(e:Event):void
/*ENTER FRAME - redraws the selction box based on mouse pointer location every frame*/
{
	drawingBox.graphics.clear();
	path = RR(mouseStart.x,mouseStart.y,mouseX,mouseY);
	graph = new Vector.<IGraphicsData>();
	stroke.fill = new GraphicsSolidFill(0xFF0000,1);
	graph.push(stroke, fill, path);
	drawingBox.graphics.drawGraphicsData(graph);
}

function RR(sx:Number, sy:Number, ex:Number, ey:Number):GraphicsPath
/*RETURN RECTANGLE - returns a Graphics path for a rectangle*/
{
	var p:GraphicsPath=new GraphicsPath;
	p.moveTo(sx,sy);
	p.lineTo(ex,sy);
	p.lineTo(ex,ey);
	p.lineTo(sx,ey);
	p.lineTo(sx,sy);
	return(p);
}

If the animation is rough, try increasing the document’s FPS to get a smoother movement.

This function calls itself when it’s complete and passes itself as a variable back to the function, so it repeats continuously.

var movementSpeed:Number = 1.5;
var speed:int = 100;
var stageWidth:int = 1920;
 
private function moveMarquee(obj:DisplayObject):void {
	TweenMax.to(obj, movementSpeed, {x:obj.x - speed, ease: Linear.easeNone, onComplete:moveMarquee, onCompleteParams:[obj]});
	if(obj.x < -obj.width) {
		TweenMax.killTweensOf(obj);
		obj.x = stageWidth;
		TweenMax.to(obj, movementSpeed, {x:obj.x - speed, ease: Linear.easeNone, onComplete:moveMarquee, onCompleteParams:[obj]});
	}
}

To initialize the first start, use this:

moveMarquee(marqueeText);

And to kill it, use this:

TweenMax.killTweensOf(marqueeText);

Enjoy!

package  {
 
	import flash.display.MovieClip;
	import flash.media.Camera;
	import flash.media.Video;
	import flash.display.BitmapData;
	import flash.display.Bitmap;
	import flash.events.MouseEvent;
	import flash.text.TextField;
	import flash.display.Sprite;
	import flash.net.SharedObject;
	import flash.events.Event;
	import flash.utils.ByteArray;
	import flash.geom.Rectangle;
 
	public class CameraTest extends MovieClip {
 
		private var camera:Camera;
		private var video:Video;
		private var bitmapData:BitmapData;
		private var bitmap:Bitmap;
		private var so:SharedObject;
		private var ba:ByteArray;
 
		public function CameraTest() {
			camera = Camera.getCamera(); // get webcam
			video = new Video(); // setup video
			video.attachCamera(camera); // attach camera to video
			addChild(video); // add video to stage
 
                        // setup bitmap
			bitmapData = new BitmapData(video.width, video.height);
			bitmap = new Bitmap(bitmapData);
			bitmap.x = 360;
 
                        // textfield for capture image button
			var capture_btn:TextField = new TextField();
			capture_btn.text = "CAPTURE";
 
                        // background for capture image button
			var spr:Sprite = new Sprite();
			spr.graphics.beginFill(0xFF0000);
			spr.graphics.drawRoundRect(0,0,100,100,10,10);
			spr.graphics.endFill();
			spr.addChild(capture_btn);
			spr.mouseChildren = false;
			addChild(spr);
			spr.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, capture);
 
                        // the local shared object
			so = SharedObject.getLocal("pictureTest");
 
                        // retrieve button, yellow, without text
			var ret:Sprite = new Sprite();
			ret.graphics.beginFill(0xFFFF00);
			ret.graphics.drawRoundRect(100,0,100,50,10,10);
			ret.graphics.endFill();
			ret.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, retrieve);
			addChild(ret);
		}
 
		private function capture(e:MouseEvent):void {
			// remove the previous image from stage
			if(bitmap.stage) {
				removeChild(bitmap);
			}
			trace("Captured");
			// draw new image
			bitmapData.draw(video);
			// add new image data to shared object
			so.data.image = bitmapData.getPixels(bitmapData.rect);
			so.flush();
		}
 
		private function retrieve(e:MouseEvent):void {
			bitmapData.setPixels(new Rectangle(bitmap.x, bitmap.y, bitmap.width, bitmap.height), so.data.image);
			addChild(bitmap);
		}
 
	}
 
}

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