ActionScript 2.0 :: Loading And Using Variables Dynamically?
Dec 31, 2008
I'm working on a project that requires me to load variables into my movie dynamically.I've gotten to the point where I get the variables loaded into flash. But then I cannot use them dynamically once inside flash. I understand code pretty well But I am relatively new to actionscript. The variables have to be used dynamically because I'll never know how many variables there will be. Could be 1 could be zero, could even be 1000.So say my loaded variable var.txt had this line in it.
Code:
File1=Pages/PageData/Page1/Downloads/SomeTextFile.rar&File2=Pages/PageData/Page1/Downloads/SomeTextFile1.rar&File3=Pages/PageData/Page1/Downloads/SomeTextFile10.rar&File4=Pages/PageDat
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