Actionscript 3.0 Tutorial : Textarea Counting and Limiting in Flash CS3 CS4 CS5
May.16, 2011 in
ActionScript
Learn to use Flash Actionscript 3.0 to limit and count a text field in your Flash based forms. Show the user how many characters are remaining that they can type into that field. It will visually limit the amount they can type in real time also.
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May 16th, 2011 at 10:38 am
Once again a brilliant tut of the king himself. Its so easy when he tells you…..!
May 16th, 2011 at 11:03 am
@XMAnuca Sorry, I’ve looked for that part but i didn’t see it. So yeah, that would be another option.
May 16th, 2011 at 11:23 am
Man,
Would you tell us what pages we could use to learn ALL those ‘secondary methods’???
It would really helpful,
Thanks fpr all!
May 16th, 2011 at 11:51 am
lol Thnx Adam
May 16th, 2011 at 12:23 pm
@andytalent11 – Hey man… If you haven’t seen, he has set that limit when he creates the text….
May 16th, 2011 at 12:47 pm
Thanks for another great tutorial!!! =]
May 16th, 2011 at 1:20 pm
can u do a tut on how to make a reloading div without reloading the whole page thanxx
May 16th, 2011 at 1:27 pm
great tut adam
May 16th, 2011 at 2:25 pm
nice tut
May 16th, 2011 at 3:07 pm
Hey Adam, great tutorial. I’ve encountered, that when I add more than 250 characters, my counter is showing negative numbers. To fix that, you’ll probably have to add the following line:
ta.maxChars = 250;
May 16th, 2011 at 3:16 pm
Thanks for another great tip and more importantly, thank you for making it free!
May 16th, 2011 at 3:59 pm
Thank u for the example mang!!!!
May 16th, 2011 at 4:18 pm
thank you, its people like you that makes people who want to learn possible
May 16th, 2011 at 5:02 pm
co za asy…