RE: FLASH: flash and loading variables from a text file

[Mike S. Krischker]

	Mick


	Maybe an 'if frame is loaded' check before the set variable

	command would help? 


	I assume you are targeting the vars the right way, if you 

	do it from an mc this can be a bit confusing.


	Be sure to use 'Control > List Variables' if you are testing 

	the movie, this should show some useful info.


	You'll see there whether headline is "" (empty) or contains

	the text. It might have the right value while the bug is 

	somewhere else.


	Mike



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From: ownershocker [dot] com [ownershocker [dot] com]On">mailto:ownershocker [dot] com]On Behalf Of mick

> Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 9:11 AM

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To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: FLASH: flash and loading variables from a text file

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> 

> greetings.

> 

> here's my code:

> 

> Load Variables ("ticker.txt", 0)

> Set Variable: "/title:headline" = head

> Begin Tell Target ("/title")

>       Go to and Play (2)

> End Tell Target

> 

> ticker.txt contains: head=Giant Spider Monkeys Take Manhattan by

> Storm!!!!

> 

> and if i were to put a Text Field in the base level associated with

> variable "head" - it would display in the text box without fail.  also,

> if i Load Variable ("ticker.txt","/title") the Text Field associated

> with variable "head" invariably does as it should.

> 

> however, and here's where i'm hoping someone will be able to offer me

> assistance.  i can not load "head" from ticker.txt and then use it as a

> variable to do any of the fun things we like to do with variables.  in

> the example above i'm trying to declare "/title:headline" to be the same

> as "head" from ticker.txt, but alas! it stubbornly refuses.

> 

> other permutations of the same that fail to work

> 

> Set Variable: "/title:headline" = head

> Set Variable: "/title:headline" = "head"

> Set Variable: "/title:headline" = eval(head)

> 

> Trace(head)

> Trace(eval(head))

> 

> this problem has had the better part of my brain for 3 solid hours now -

> it's 3:08 am and i'm hoping that i've overlooked something so small that

> it will make me want to slit my wrists when it's pointed out to me.

> 

> i'll be here 'til dawn likely, so if anyone out there is reading this

> and can offer any advice at all, it would be greatly appreciated.

> 

> thank you.

> 

> --

> mick szucs

> onramp network services inc.

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