ActionScript 2.0 :: Use External Text File With Flash Mx
Aug 26, 2005
I'm trying to use external text file with flash mx. What I want to do is to define a variable in the text file.I want to be able to define the default content of a projector on my site from a text file so I would have a text file with something like "web/client/project.swf" inside and I want to be able to pick it up from within my movie clip using loadMovie(); where the "url" attribute would be my text file content.
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Nov 9, 2005
How can I replace text loaded from an external file with text from another external file? Using setInterval and calling the .load from a function or something? In the example below I'm calling an external text file, could this also work with an .xml file with cycling through the children?
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May 16, 2005
I turn to you for help, dear sweet Kirupa Forumites. First, let me explain the problem: I have a flash file reading an external text file for the content. Everything works perfectly for nearly everyone - you click a menu button, and the content text comes up fine. However, a couple of people have found that the text shows up as "undefined". I have checked the player versions of the people where it doesn't work, and it is the same as for those where it does work, so that ain't the problem.
I don't understand why it works perfectly for nearly everyone, but a small number of people have this "undefined" text problem. It seems to be a problem with loading the external text file, but I don't know why. I have a main flash movie, and load the text in the first frame, using the following:
var my_content = new LoadVars();
my_content.load("content.txt");
my_content.onLoad = function(success){
if (success){
[Code]...
I then have a couple of dynamic text boxes in the main movie - one called ErrorText (for displaying an error message to the user) and one called ContentText (for displaying the content). I use an external menu swf which jumps to a specific frame in the main movie, depending on which button is clicked. Actionscript on the main movie frame for the first button does the following, with the other frames similarly configured:
ContentText.htmlText = my_content.content1;
stop();
My external text file is properly configured (content1=blah blah&content2=other blah blah) etc.
Does anyone have any advice on how I can solve this particular weird problem??
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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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Nov 3, 2009
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XML snippet looks a little like this...
<title>Title</title>
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May 2, 2009
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Instance name: my_txt
Variable name: storyText
Flash 8 | ActionScript 2.0
inside the text file: storyText=This is my is my text here....
Latest code that I am using:
function textLoader() {
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Oct 31, 2004
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May 28, 2007
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Dec 1, 2010
I am trying to load an external variable text file into a movie but it is returning compiler errors. Please suggest a solution. The source code is ......
var myTextLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
myTextLoader.DataFormat=URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIAB LES;
myTextLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onLoaded);
[code]....
The external file is "gxcvrt.txt" while name, slogan, rep, button1-7 are the variables to be loaded.The compiler returns the following errors (highlighted in red)
Line 4
'{' expected
Source = function onLoaded(e:Event) :void {
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Sep 14, 2010
Can I Use data from external Text file for JavaScript alert message in flash? I wanted to change the alert message dynamically using the external text file.
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2. And the flash action script i used is as below..
var message1;
message1 = trace(Enter);
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Mar 13, 2003
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Nov 17, 2003
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Dec 31, 2004
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on (release) {
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