that was most likely the reason - shorter strings render correctly, I feel like an absolute idiot now. Thanks so much for all of your help!! The project is really awesome and much appreciated
-Rahul Dhodapkar 2012/6/15 Daniel Cassidy <m...@danielcassidy.me.uk> > You haven’t even provided the whole DefineEditText tag so I’ve no idea > really, but are you sure that the text box isn’t just too narrow to contain > its contents? > > There’s no particularly good reason why swfmill should remove two > characters from the middle of a string, but given the state of some of the > code I wouldn’t entirely rule out the possibility of a particularly crazy > bug. > > Dan. > > > On 15 June 2012 20:02, Rahul Dhodapkar <rahul.m.dhodap...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I put the dll next to the exe file and everything started working >> perfectly!! thanks so much for the quick response. >> >> now I am trying to change some simple text in the xml file to rebuild >> into a swf and am getting some strange problems - >> >> I am trying to get the swf to display the simple string "Testing the text >> system" using the following line of swfmillxml >> >> <DefineEditText objectID="2" wordWrap="1" multiLine="1" >> password="0" readOnly="1" autoSize="0" hasLayout="1" notSelectable="1" >> hasBorder="0" isHTML="1" useOutlines="1" fontRef="1" fontHeight="240" >> align="0" leftMargin="0" rightMargin="0" indent="0" leading="40" >> variableName="" initialText="<p align="left"><font >> face="Times New Roman" size="12" >> color="#0066cc" letterSpacing="0.000000" >> kerning="1">Testing the text system</font></p>"> >> >> but for some reason, when I run xml2swf the rendering comes out as "Testi >> the text system." Is there some sort of conservation of characters or >> something that I am missing? Thanks so much >> >> -Rahul Dhodapkar >> >> 2012/6/15 Anders Pettersson <mr.petters...@gmail.com> >> >>> I can confirm that just putting the dll next to the exe will work. It >>> would however be nice to learn how to create the exe itself, I almost got >>> there using mingw. >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Daniel Cassidy < >>> m...@danielcassidy.me.uk> wrote: >>> >>>> Blast. >>>> >>>> You should be able to just put it next to swfmill.exe. >>>> >>>> However the exe shouldn’t really require that DLL at all. The fact that >>>> it does is a result of my stupidity. >>>> >>>> I should really put out a new build without that requirement but I >>>> keep putting it off and then forgetting, which is also a result of my >>>> stupidity. >>>> >>>> Dan. >>>> >>>> >>>> On 15 June 2012 19:35, Rahul Dhodapkar <rahul.m.dhodap...@gmail.com>wrote: >>>> >>>>> Dear All, >>>>> >>>>> I am trying to install the swfmill.exe for windows vista on my >>>>> computer. I dropped the contents of the download into my program files >>>>> x86 >>>>> folder, but when I double click on the .exe I get an error saying >>>>> "the program can't start because libiconv-2.dll is missing from you >>>>> computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem." >>>>> >>>>> I have downloaded another copy of libiconv-2.dll in an atttempt to >>>>> satisfy this, but I do not know where to put the file. Has anyone else >>>>> encountered this problem/has any ideas on how to proceed? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks much in advance, >>>>> Rahul Dhodapkar >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> swfmill mailing list >>>>> swfmill@osflash.org >>>>> http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/swfmill_osflash.org >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> swfmill mailing list >>>> swfmill@osflash.org >>>> http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/swfmill_osflash.org >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> swfmill mailing list >>> swfmill@osflash.org >>> http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/swfmill_osflash.org >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> swfmill mailing list >> swfmill@osflash.org >> http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/swfmill_osflash.org >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > swfmill mailing list > swfmill@osflash.org > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/swfmill_osflash.org > >
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