ActionScript 2.0 :: Using External Text Files In A Flash
Mar 16, 2002
I am fairly new to Flash 5, I have been using Swish for about 1.5 years. I want to advance to a new level though. I have asked this question at others boards, and haven't yet got a detailed enough answer for me to understand it and work it. Either that, or I am making just a tiny error. If anyone could explain in detail how to show a .txt file inside a flash OR give me a link to a detailed tutorial then that would be great.
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Jun 7, 2009
I've managed to piece together a flash website with my limited as3 knowledge. The text is loaded from external text files and styled with an external css file.
It's working perfectly in Firefox and Explorer but it only works SOME of the time in Safari (on my mac).It's hit and miss. Sometimes it styles the text sometimes it doesn't.
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Jan 19, 2011
I am having trouble trying to use actionscript to load different files when different values are changed. I am currently using a tilelist and they have different values so the code is something like this: (the title is just there, non-related)
if (startTileList.selectedItem.value == 1)
{
//textFile1 load here[code].........
So I want different text files to be loaded when different value is selected but I cannot seem to get it working.
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May 30, 2003
how to i make a button so when i press it, it loads an external .txt files in my text box in flash
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May 28, 2007
Structure: There is 1 main file that loads external SWF files depending on what is clicked on.One of the external SWF files loads its text from external text files. This works fine when viewing the SWF applet on its own. But when viewing as a whole site, the text doesnt appear. Very annoying.I made that particular SWF on my mums computer running Flash MX 2004The flash file itself uses the Scrollbar component from MX.Could someone tell me why the text doesnt load in this scenario? It runs fine on its own, just not as an external SWF.
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Mar 29, 2010
[URL]... I am working on finishing up the above site, but I am having issues when I look at it in different browser. Safari shows issues with apostrophes and parentheses. When I look at the text in Google Chrome there are text errors. Is there a way to fix this? Using CS4, Action script 3
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Aug 17, 2011
I'm making a site that my clients will be able to log into, in order to check their status with my company.
Basically, I have the following dynamic text fields (instance names);
ActionScript Code:
/*
mayPay
junePay
julyPay
[Code]....
I will have .txt files uploaded to my server which I will be able to edit on the fly. I am just having trouble setting it up.
I can find a way where I am able to load one external text file into a dynamic text field, but not multiple..
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Mar 18, 2006
I have an external file highscores.txt, which my game opens. It finds the 3 variables in it and compares them to the score that the user got and determines if they beat it or not. If they beat the high score, I want it to re-write the variables in the file, which are "name", "seconds", and "minutes". Here is how I open the file and get the data.
loadText = new LoadVars();
loadText.load("highscore.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function() {
[code]....
how I can write in the file using flash?
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Jun 12, 2006
I am having a couple of issues with dynamic text. I am loading fairly simple text documents, but am ending up with some font oddness. For example, I am using plain Arial in the CSS but am ending up with words running together. In the word "Oxygen" the "Oxy" letter spacing is really tight. Do I have something odd in the CSS? Here it is:
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Pretty straightforward so I can't figure out why things look bad. Would embedding the font, even if it's arial, make any difference? How does that work in the code? I tried using the embedFonts = true; but that didn't seem to really do anything. So I'm thinking that perhaps I should be loading HTML or something for these external text files. These aren't huge, but several of them contain listings, headline, main body copy, sub head - the typical sort of thing on would find in a text file. Is there a good primer out there as to what works with CSS and text files or different ways of getting text files into Flash?
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Dec 13, 2009
A user, who is not familiar with html, wants to do very simple text formatting (font color, size, decoration) in external txt files that are to be loaded into Flash CS4 dynamic text fields. I know, some html tags can be used in txt files but the text becomes quite unclear. How is this issue usually coped with? Must the user learn a bit of html and use it or is there any other option?
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Mar 20, 2009
I've been trying to load an external movie into an MC on my stage
Button.onRelease = function () {
toLoad = inputText;
MC.loadMovie("URL HERE"+toLoad);
[code].....
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May 27, 2004
i know you can load them in as variables... but is there anyway SAVE a variable as a text file (overwriting old one as well)
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Jun 9, 2008
I've literally done everything to try and load txt in from file and nothing works (undefined messages)[code]
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May 27, 2004
i know you can load them in as variables... but is there anyway SAVE a variable as a text file (overwriting old one as well)
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Apr 19, 2004
how one would get "<" and ">" to work if you use external say... .txt file for a textfield...
So say I put in my textfile
textfield= The cookies were great ---> and so was the milk<br><br>Yes I love cookies.
The <br> is html, but the ---> is not, yet it won't show...
Same goes for other characters, such as "&", ", '
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Feb 23, 2011
I spent almost a week trying to figure out how to unload a currently loaded swf using its button and loading a new swf... I have three files, a main.fla, file1.fla and file2.fla. In my main.fla, I have a code which loads the other two files. If i will click the "unload" button in the file1.swf, I would like the main.fla to unload the file1.swf and load the other file, file2.swf. Here is the code to load the file1.swf:
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Apr 20, 2011
i have created a plain text files loads from an external file. I am facing one problem which is the text does not load unless someone select the button. I will like the text to show as soon as someone enters the page
//Plain text files loads from an external file
var textLoader:URLLoader;function loadStory(evt:MouseEvent):void{
textLoader = new URLLoader();
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Sep 6, 2005
I'm using LoadVars to load an external file that has one variable containing an array with a few sub arrays.
Code:
var externalData:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
externalData.onLoad = function() {
var sectArray:Array = externalData.sectArray;
};
externalData.load("portfolio.txt");
But every time I try to get one of the values I get "undefined". is there another way?
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Feb 15, 2008
I have a very basic flash document, with a dynamic text field called myText, and a script to load an external html-file into that field. The script is from a tutorial somewhere, so I'm not 100% sure it's optimal, but it works. What I want to do is modify this code so that a clicking a button in this document will switch the input file from demo.html to another HTML-file, say demo2.html.
var url:String = "demo.html";
var loadit:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loadit.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
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Jul 28, 2006
I'm loading external text files into a textbox when you click buttons, like so:
[Code]....
This works fine, no problem. But I've got a bunch of buttons. So, I write this as a function:
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Jun 20, 2004
I've gotten as far as getting a listbox with a list of articles to display the articles in a dynamic text box, only i can only get it to work if i use one huge external text file that contains all the articles. what i want is to have each item on the list open up its own external text file, i.e. for each item on the list, there exists a separate text file. I'm about ready to put my fist through the monitor, and that would suck because this is a really nice monitor
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Jul 19, 2011
I'm working on making a pretty chunky game engine for games I plan on making, but I was wondering if you make external AS files unopenable such as .lib files, so that if I give it to a friend that wants to use it, he/she cannot change my code. Is there anyway to make external AS files unopenable? Also, obfuscation isn't an option for this problem as it only stops the people who hack the finished product, not stopping people who have access to the actual files.
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Sep 6, 2011
i have been working with a few basic flash presentation to learn the ropes. However, I am working on a flash file which, when compiled, pulls in flash content from elsewhere in the Parent folder. I have read through the FAQ and cannot find the answer, as there doesn't seem to be any Actionscript which handles the importing of these external files.
Are there other methods that I am unaware of? I need to edit these other files, however I find it more beneficial to first understand how the Flash file is compiled before editing.
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Jan 3, 2011
I've been using flash functionality in order to fill in dynamic text variable with an external data. The script works fine, except that now runs very slow - around 30 seconds or so.
myData = new LoadVars();
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Mar 14, 2011
I was told recently by a Flash developer that I respect that using
include "functions_file.as";
is not the appropriate way to import a list of functions into an AS3, Flash CS5 document.We're not talking about objects and packages, just a list of functions.
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Mar 14, 2003
how can i make a flash movie, have a loading bar for a movie being loaded into it, but also for the content in the main movie.
and have both the percentages in the same loading bar.
i.e.
main = 25%
loadee = 75%
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total = 50%
i dont want a loading bar in each of the movies being loaded in?
something like _level1._getBytesLoaded() or something?
i think i tried it before but since _level1 hadnt even began to load it disregarded it and assumed it was done..
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Apr 9, 2006
This is the code i have been using
loadText.load("textfile");
//creating the loadVarsText function
loadText.onLoad = function() {
dynamictextboxname.text = this.the=whatever text in notpad;
};
how to load my external text in, i have it all set up. Its all being saved into the same folders etc. But still nothing.
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Feb 4, 2009
Anyone know how to set up a Flash AS structure that doesn't feature any code in the actual compiler FLA and instead places all code in external .AS files? I believe this begins by setting up a Manager class and then setting that as your FLA's Document Class, yes? Everything else runs through the Manager?
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Jun 1, 2009
I recently got the following code from one of your tutorials and am wondering why it is that when I try to change the .jpg images to .png images, the images no longer appear in the swf file. Does flash no allow .png files to be loaded.The reason that I need the files to be png is because the have to have a transparent backgroung.[code].....
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Jun 16, 2009
I use flash CS3 on Mac OSX and I'm creating several AS2 projects with .as class files. Everything code-wise is working perfectly. The problem comes when I make a change to a particular class file, save the file, and the republish the fla. The changes are almost never reflected in the published swf. The only thing I've discovered to work around this problem and actually get my changes published is to publish to a different flash player version, and then republish back to the version I really want. Somehow that seems to actually get flash to load the most recent version.
It seems like this might be some sort of flash caching problem, but I have no idea how to tell it to always check for the newest version of the file.
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