ActionScript 2.0 :: Load Text From Notepad Into Movie?
Oct 15, 2009
i used to dabble with flash a while ago and just getting back into it, i remembered there was a piece of action script that allows you to turn a box into something like a window that would load the text from a notepad file in the same directory as the .swf so once the .swf file has been uploaded and you want to change the text all you need to do with change the text in the notepad file.
I have a flash website with a text body that is regularly updated. To avoid having to keep uploading the whole flash site each time this is changed I was wondering if it where possible to have a notepad file containing the text and when the flash site loads it just loads the text from the notepad file into the flash site.
I have a file that loads text from a notepad file externally. This is working fine. But when I try calling this animation from another flash file (using loadMovie), I do not see any dynamic text attached to the child file.
I want to copy this text paragraph from notepad (img1) and paste into a TLF container with 2 columns (img2), but it seems that something is wrong. It seems that all the lines are overlapped and you can't tell what's written.
I have this test1.txt that I want to importIn my movie I have a dynamic textfield called example1 with the value test1I want to load the external text into the movie from that dynamical text field.Something like that:loadVariablesNum("(example1.text).txt", 0, "GET");
I can load the text from a text file till later in my movie. i have 8 different areas of information but there is no text shown in the last two even though the actionscript is identical. the link is [URL] i can add the fla this is the gist of the actionscript given to me:
I would like to be able to load a text file in one movie by clicking on a button in a different movie.[code]I created a dynamic text box named "newsBox" in a movie called infoPg. I want to put the "on (release)" command on a button in a movie called nav_tools. The nav_tools movie is on the main timeline and the infoPg movie is loaded dynamically on the main timeline.Also, do I need to put the text file on the same directory level as the flash file on my web server?
I would like to be able to load a text file in one movie by clicking on a button in a different movie. Here is the script I am using from one of the tutorials:
on (release) { loadText = new loadVars(); loadText.load("TEXT1.txt");
I made a XML list on my main timeline. Is it possible to make these list like links and when I press each of the buttons, it will load a swf to the desired container area?
I am trying to get the text to display on this buttonn which is actualy a movie clip I want the text to load from a text file so each button has a varible name button1 button2I have this on the first frameloadVariablesNum("text.txt", 0);and then in the text file I havebutton1=Ops&button2=Toolsif i put a text box over the button it will display fine but the button looses its function near the text box as i have put the text box in a layer above the button
I have a button..that at the moment loads a movie. However I need the button to fade text then load movie!! Is it as simple as combining these twp pieces of action script? How do I go about altering this to work?
i want to load variable from text file to my main movie (swf file).what should i put in the second parameter of the function loadVariables ("target" parameter) - should i insert _this? _parent? _global? (nothing works...)
I made an effect in swish and i saved it in to an swf file i want to load that swf file in to my flash movie in the middle in which i have some text's and pictures
I am making a random name chooser for a class (using an array to read from 28 names). I was wondering if it is possible for flash to read an array from a notepad file. [code]Is there a way to make it so that instead of having to edit the Fla file to edit the names, I can just make a notepad file with the array and _root.NumberOfStudents variable so that it can be edited from year to year easily?
The desired affect is simple: I have a single button... with each click I want it to load text into a dynamic text field and load a corresponding picture or movieclip.There are only three unique text/image combinations- after its displayed the third, with the next click I want it to just start over. All the text functions perfectly with each click.
The problem is:I use "createEmptyMovieClip" then use the resulting clip as a loader clip.. With the first click I want a movieclip from the library to load, so I use the "attachMovie" method- it displays the first library fine.With the next click I want to load an external swf- so I call the "loadMovie" method of the loaderclip... The external swf loads just fine replacing the first library clip.The third clip is where I have problems... now I want to load another library item into the loaderclip... so I tried using the attachMovie method again but the external swf remains static... then with the next click, I discover the first library item no longer loads and the external swf remains still playing- it's like once it's been loaded into the loaderclip it cant be moved...
So I tried adding the "unloadMovie" method in the code for the third click.. it successfully removed the swf... but the next line of code immediately after the unload statement, doesn't work. The line calls the attachMovie method for the loaderclip... but the library item doesnt load... Oddly enough, with the next click, the first library item now does load as if everything's fine... It seems like you cant use the unloadMovie and attachMovie on the same executing code? if that makes any sense... the basic idea was that if I couldnt get the attachmovie method to replace the loaded external swf, then I would use the unload method to remove it, then have code immediately after, to then execute the attachMovie method... but it still doesnt load the library clip. and I know it's not a type-o, because when I comment out the loadMovie and unloadMovie statements, it loads both the library items perfectly ? The code is below
var increment:Number = 1; var verbiage1:String = "Hello World1"; var verbiage2:String = "Hello World2";[code].............
pulling both a variable and an array from a text file (.txt). In my case I have the following:A flash file (.fla)A text file (named MyTxtFile.txt)Now, I just need to be able to pull an array from the txt file. Is it possible to do this? On the main timeline of my flash file I have the following:
Code:
MyArray= new Array("Pizza", "Cheese", "Fish"); _root.NumberofItems= 3;
My goal is to have the "MyArray" array in the text file so that I can edit the values from the txt file.Then I have a button on the main timeline ("Item_txt" is just a dynamic textbox in the flash file):
I want to be able to update this file often, so I thought it would be handy to just "store" an array and a variable in a text file. Let's say in MyTxtFile.txt I had the array "MyArray" and the variable "NumberofItems". I could just update the information in the txt file and it would update the Flash file.
Edit: Would it be possible to store a string in a text file, then have that string put into a blank array? For example: If I had "cheese", "stars", "playdoh" in a text file and then I pulled the string into flash using the LoadVars class could I have the code in my time line set up like this:
Code:
_root.variable1 = ""; var ARRAY:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); ARRAY.onData = function(thetext:String) {
I'm having some problems with the XML/FLASH Photo Gallery Tutorial ([URL]). When I load the swf file into another movie the dynamic text will not display. Any thoughts to why this is happening.
Now im developing one flash site. In that i have one form details.. I completed the form using php. when we user register all the data will store in one notepad file. Now i have one more form for referring friends... When users referring his/her friends in that form i have one field his/her (Referral Email id/phone no) text field. Once User submit the form first i want to check if this user already register with us or not. So i want to check the notepad file for his email id / phone no. if he already registered then only form will submit.
How to check email id/ phone no in notepad file from flash?
If I recall correctly you needed a server-side language to do that job...but will it be possible in the future for flash to open and write stuff into a notepad or something?