ActionScript 2.0 :: Displaying Text From An External .txt File?
Dec 15, 2011
ive been trying to build a small internet radio player and it works fine besides displaying what current song is playing to some dynamic text we have it set up to upload a plain .txt file to our website every time the song is changed it is displayed for example
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
like i said plain text, this is the code i have that displays it, and it HALF works
Code:
myData = new LoadVars();
myData.onLoad = function() {
myText_txt.text = this;
};
myData.load("example.txt");
but the text displays with %20 for spaces and stuff at the end like so:
Rick%20Astley%20%2D%20Never%20Gonna%20Give%20You%2 0Up=&onLoad=%5Btype%20Function%5D
what am i doing wrong?
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