ActionScript 2.0 :: Externally Load Text For Hover Captions?
Apr 21, 2007
I am trying to modify the hover caption tutorial from here at Kirupa to load the text in the caption from an external text file. Could anyone give me a hand trying to figure this out?I tried the simple way of loading external text but because the text is loaded in a MovieClip this does not work. Here is my code for the hover menu that currently loads the text dynamically through ActionScript:
MovieClip.prototype.resize = function() {
var w = box.caption.textWidth+0
var h = box.caption.textHeight+0;
[code]......
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Code:
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[Code]....
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Code:
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_root.m = 1;
[code]....
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