Re: FLASH: <<<text variable to text field>>>

[-[dk]-]

Thanks Helen...... I had tried that before... but it never worked...... but

by seeing your suggestion in front of me, it made me think of something...

you target by the instance name.. not the actual mc name.... so... DOH!

Forgot to give my second MC an instance name.


Works like a charm!


-Dustin-


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From: "Helen Triolo" <

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Sent: June 3, 2000 8:40 PM

Subject: Re: FLASH: <<<text variable to text field>>>



> "-[dk]-" wrote:

> >

> > Hi everyone...

> >

> > I have created a scrolling text field that pulls the text from a plain

text

> > file.....

> >

> > It works ok, except for the following.... I need to put it in a MC, or

if

> > possible, a MC within a MC.... and when I do so, the text will not show

up.

> > Based on this, I assume that I have a path problem. The text file is

located

> > in the same folder as the SWF file...... and I have tried the variable

path

> > of "text.txt" ," /text.txt" and even "../text.txt"

> >

>

> Dustin,

>

> The reference to the text file will be the same no matter how nested

> your textfield is inside MCs.  The thing that should change is the path

> they're being loaded into.  So if your textfield is in mc1 which is in

> mc2, then you'd use Load Variables ("text.txt", "/mc2/mc1")

>

> hth,

> Helen

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