Re: FLASH: Loading variables from a text file. Anyone??

[EmbraceTheDark]

dont put text=, make it variable text= . the name should match what you have there. that should fix it me thinks (it should also take ALL variables from the text)


       - David


"Reality is in the dark." - D. DiLorenzo


> Hi.

> 

> I am trying to follow a tutorial by  Erika Burbach on the MM site

>  http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/set variables.htm )

> about loading variables from a text file.  Please could someone look at the

> tutorial and make suggestions as to any common mistakes when following such

> a procedure.  I thought that to carry out any frame actions, the play head

> has to leave the frame containing the actions?  Am I right?  If someone

> could just tell me how they do it, I would be very grateful.

> 

> So far I have a 1frame movie.  In that 1 frame I have a textfield (named

> variable text) and a action that goes:

> Load Variables ("http://my text.txt file etc", 0)

> 

> I have a .txt document up in the same directory that says: text=This text

> has been pulled from an external source!

> 

> It is named text.txt

> 

> What am I doing wrong folks?

> Please help.

> 

> Thank you very much indeed for any help on this.  This has been a major

> stumbling point for me for ages now!

> 

> PS  Once I have retrieved one variable(one day!), how can I retrieve more

> than one variable from the same text file?

> Thanks again.

> 



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