FLASH: Handling LOTS of strings (and thanks for prev. help

[Ted Buson]

Hi,


BTW, thanks to everyone who helped with the localToGlobal question. It 

really helped out.


My new question: I'm building a movie which is going to have a whole mess o' 

strings, pairs actually, one being a date and one being the text for the 

date. E.g.:


var1:  May 12, 1940

var1t: Nothing happened on May 12, 1940.


Now, I'm probably going to have about  200 of these. My plan was to build a 

container MC, which would load on frame 1, which would contain all of the 

variables, like:


var1

var1t

var2

var2t...


etc all the way to...


var200

var200t


Some of the text could be a couple paragraphs long. Am I going to run into 

any load time or playback problems with this much? Am I just being a 

worrywart? Or is there a better way to do this, like having those variables 

stored in an outside .txt file which would be accessed as needed? What's the 

most efficient way to deal with this?


Thanks much,


Ted

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