Re: [Swftools-common] Help with search highlight

[jriggio]

Thanks for your help. I have seen that example but still not having any
luck with it. This is what I have been doing maybe you can help me out.
CODE:

_root.createEmptyMovieClip("container",1);
container._x = 110;
container._y = 60;
loadMovie("swfs/testM001.swf", "container");

searchText_mc.onRelease = function() {
        trace("Start Searching The Doc");
        hltext("wonderful");
}

//viewport.loadMovie("swfs/testM001.swf");


function hltext ( txt ) {
        //trace("hltext");
        var mc = _root.container;
        var my_snap:TextSnapshot = mc.getTextSnapshot();
        var start_pos:Number = 0;

        start_pos = my_snap.findText(start_pos, txt, false);
        trace("start_pos : " + start_pos);

        while (start_pos > 0) {
    trace(start_pos);

        my_snap.setSelected(start_pos, start_pos + txt.length, true);
        start_pos += txt.length;
        start_pos = my_snap.findText(start_pos, txt, false);
        }

}

It keeps giving me this output:

Start Searching The Doc
start_pos : -1

before I had it giving me a buch of sets of numbers. I don't know what I
did but I can get that to work again. I just want to search and highlight
text in my swfs. This is driving me mad. Any help would be AWESOME!!!




> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:40:32PM -0500, address@hidden
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Im still having trouble getting a search working. Im stuck on how to
>> implement it. I want to be able to convert the pdf's to as3 and search
>> the
>> swf. Do you have a example that i can see with this function?
>
> Afraid that so far, all true search implementations are commercial.
>
> But if you're looking for something to start with, the principles
> of text extraction and text highlighting are demonstrated in
>     http://www.swftools.org/flash/textsnapshot.html
> .
>
>> it would
>> help me greatly. Also when i do a -T 9 and -t the pages do not stop.
>
> Thanks for reporting this. This was a bug. It'll work again in the next
> snapshot.
>
> Greetings
>
> Matthias
>
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