Re: FLASH: Problem with loading text into textfield

[Helen Triolo]

Hejsan!  Or maybe Eureka!  OK, I took the movieclip (mc1) that had

another movieclip (instance mc2instance) that had a textfield

(nestedfield) and made this an external movie: outside.swf.  The

instance of the bottom movieclip (what used to be mc1) now has the

instance name of outsidemc1instance in outside.swf (one frame only).


Movie 2 (the one I'll load this into) has a blank movieclip with

instance name dummyinstance.  This appears in all frames of movie 2 (I

finally figured out what you and Karin have been talking about, Cheri,

about how instances have to be named in *every frame* in which they are

referenced, not just somewhere in the movie--but I digress).  Here are

the actions:


Frame 3:

Load Movie ("outside.swf", "/dummyinstance")


Frame 4: 

Load Variables ("myfile.txt",

"/dummyinstance/outsidemc1instance/mc2instance")

Go to and Play ("loading")


Notice that *both* instance names have to be in that string (and in the

next frame too)--the one in movie2 and the one in the external movie!


Frame 5 (label=loading):

If (/dummyinstance/outsidemc1instance/mc2instance/:nestedfield ne "")

      Go to and Play ("showvars")

End If


Frame 6:

Go to Previous Frame


Frame 7:

Stop


It works!  pant, pant.  See if that makes any sense...  


Helen

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