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Subject: RE: FLASH: Formatting external text
From: Ball, Steven
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:33:28 +0100

Thanks to all for your thoughts!

Steve


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Subject: Re: FLASH: Formatting external text
Author: "Matt Wobensmith" <SMTP:mwobensmithatmacromedia [dot] com> at
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Date: 06/19/2000 3:25 PM


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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