Re: FLASH: Formatting external text

[Matt Wobensmith]

Hi Steven -


You wrote:


>     I need to call in external text, but there are headings which I need 

>     to make bold and underscore.  Is there a way possibly to signify a 

>     head in the external file and have Flash format it for me?



Actually, with Flash alone, you can load in data but not format it as such.

The only current way to dynamically put formatted text into Flash is with

Generator on the server.


Without Generator, you can certainly bring external text data into the Flash

movie, but in a text field, you are limited to one style - the style that

was created in that text field in the authoring environment. If the

characters are bold in that text field in author time, the text loading into

it at runtime will also be bold. Additionally, there's no underscore or

underline in Flash.


HTH,


Matt


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Matt Wobensmith

Macromedia Tech Support

Flash Team Lead


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