RE: FLASH: A Variety of Questions

[James Mansfield]

Title: RE: FLASH: A Variety of Questions

I can help with question 1 Rachel but not sure re others questins.
Yes you can create an empty text field in Flash and then, via an external text file, upload text into this field. First you have to name the text field in flash.

ie name it text1
then create the external text file and save it as what ever you want. Lets call it external.txt for now.
Now within that text file you have a line saying text1=goony goo goo and what that does is, when prompted uploads the goony goo goo text into the text field text1 within th flash document.

The prompt to upload the text can either be a button or a script on one of the frames within flash. Use the Load/Unload movie script to read:

Load variables (external.txt",0)

Good luck
James

-----Original Message-----
From: Rachel Bachman [rachelsaltmine [dot] com (mailto:rachelsaltmine [dot] com)]
Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 7:51 AM
To: flashershocker [dot] com
Subject: Re: FLASH: A Variety of Questions

Thanks Nigel. Your answers are quite helpful. Your answers
have generated new questions for me.

>3.
>Yes, just like in Director.
Hmmm. I am still confused on this. Here is a scenario.
I have an swf file. Inside the swf file is a text field.
In addition there is a txt file that contains a line of
text. These files sit on a server in the same directory.

I can script something to the effect of the following?
(I know this is not correct syntax.)

get line 1 of "udated.txt" and put it into x
put x into myTextField

It wouldn't be something like the following.
go to getThatLineOftextCGIscript
execute script to get line 1 of some text file sitting somewhere
put x into myTextField

>4.
>As for the second part of the question, no there
>are no limits even if I don't quite grasp what you mean by 'too
>confusing'.

I guess I have a very clear picture of where my handlers
and scripts "live" and should "live" within director. I'm
having a harder time understanding where "generic"
type handlers/scripts "live" in Flash.

more again, thanks for your time!
rachel

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