Re: FLASH: loading text files

[James Stone]

Hi Sohrab,


I have been doing a lot of this text file loading business lately, feel free to

check out a beta of what I am working on at http://pulse.towerrecords.com


To load text from an external file is pretty simple.


1) you must have a text field varible named.  to do this make sure the text

field icon is selected (bottom of tool bar) and create a new text area.  Then

right click (control click on macintosh) on the field, and name it whatever you

want (i.e. content)


2) you need to create a text file that has unix line breaks that is also url

encoded.  i.e.


content=This+is+the+text+that+I+want+to+use.&


Make sure that you have the varible name first, followed by equals sign, then at

the end of the text make sure you have an ampersand.


3) you need to load the varible from action script.  Create an action script on

a keyframe.  Double click on frame, chose actions, and then do load varibles,

type the relative url to the text file from the flash animation (i.e. text.txt)


Hopefully that will point you in the right direction.  Let me know what the url

is once you get it completed, I would love to check it out.


-James




On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Sohrab Pirayesh wrote:


:+:.(sorry if this posts twice)

:+:.

:+:.hey everyone,

:+:.

:+:.I am trying to load a text file into a movie clip, and then tell target that

:+:.movie clip when a button is released.

:+:.

:+:.So i followed this tutorial,

:+:.http://www.virtual-fx.net/tutorials/html/loadtextfile.htm

:+:.

:+:.It works great until i put the 4 frames into the mc and tell target it.

:+:.Nothing shows up??

:+:.

:+:.Can anyone help me?

:+:.

:+:.-sohrab

:+:.

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