ActionScript 2.0 :: Loading XML Need To Be Dynamic
Mar 19, 2010
Was wondering if someone could steer me into the right direction or shed a bit of light on my problem.At the moment i am using the following code to display text from an external XML file.[code]The "site_eng.xml" means that it loads in the english version of the XML file.The problem is that i need to make it dynamic so that it can look at a different XML file in a different map - this is because i need to direct it to 6 different language XML files.Would it be possible to change the code so that it looks at an URL that ends with /movietexts ?[code]
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