Actionscript 2.0 :: Loading Items From External Text File Dynamically?
Sep 25, 2009
I am attempting to load text from an external .txt file into dynamic text fields using AS2When you click on a button (named forward and back), I want the next &-denoted "news" item to repopulate the current dynamic text boxes to replace the first bit of info.This is what I have so far, but I'm stumped. I used the trace to make sure the button is "clicking" (it is), but I can't get the integer to go up a number and repopulat the fields.
var newsData:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
newsData.load("data.txt");
newsData.timeline = this;
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var myTextLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
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Line 4
'{' expected
Source = function onLoaded(e:Event) :void {
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