ActionScript 2.0 :: Writing To External Text Files?
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() {
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.
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.
I'm making a simple flash game as sort of a test, and I'd like to have save files by making flash write information to an xml file. Is there anyway to generate and edit an xml file using actionscript?
What is your approach to writing documentation explaining the options and use of XML files for a project ?Do you write commented instructions directly in the XML file ?Do you create a different text file in which you write instructions ?Do you explain the use of blocks of XML or do you detail each element and it's function ?I am looking for some guidelines on how to write the documentation for large XML files that control the settings and content of projects.
XML is really cool, I'm amazed at how easy it is to use and what it can achieve. what the easiest method of adding data into an XML file via PHP is. I'm somewhat proficient with PHP (and MySQL), just not too much. For instance we have an XML file like so.
Code: <news> <item> <heading>This is the heading!</heading>
[CCode]....
So how would we go about adding item elements (of course containing headings and content) into our XML file via PHP? Are there any good libraries that do that or built in functions?
I'm trying to wrap my head around writing .as files in MX 2004. As a practice file I made a MovieClip called SquareClip in the library of flash file. I made the linkage name SquareClip. My .as file called Square looks like this:
[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
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:
[Code]...
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?
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.
I'm using Flash CS3 and AS3 to create a stand alone app to run a kiosk. At the end of the kiosk we have a spot for a user to input comments and I want to write the contents of 2 text boxes when the submit button is clicked to a .txt file on the system that an administrator can approve and copy to a new file to be read in to the app and displayed. I've figured out how to read the external txt file easily enough, but there are so many conflicting things online regarding writing an external text file I haven't done any serious programming in 8+ years so I'm also relearning programming with this project.
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.
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?
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();
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?
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);
can you write and modify XML files using server-side Actionscript? I've been going through Adobe's Server-side Actionscript reference, reading up on the File class that lets you modify files on the server, and the server-side XML class that lets you read and 'understand' XML data, but can you put them together and essentially edit XML files on the server?
I am working on a survey project where I want a user's answers to get logged to a text file. I used the code from this post to make a php script in an attempt to do this: [URL]
I modified it as follows:
var urlLDR:URLLoader=new URLLoader(); var urlR:URLRequest = new URLRequest( "filewriter.php" ); var urlVar:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
[Code]....
When I run my movie, it does not invoke the PHP script. why it is not working? Are there alternative methods to logging this data to a text file?
