Actionscript... i think

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ok, i have my website (http://iansrealm.cjb.net) and im trying to make a menu that, when you click the button, instead of loading a new .swf, it loads text into a dynamic text box. Please help for for i am completly new to Flash MX… FLASH ITSELF!! thank you in advance.
Ian Mather

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There are tutes about that on this site, ian :slight_smile:

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where where!!?? ehehe

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There :slight_smile:

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in MX… elsewhere?

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You want something in Flash 5? [SIZE=1]points to the title of this forum[/SIZE]

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i cant find it :evil: :frowning: **** thing… please can u help me?

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Oups, sorry. The post that says “There” is a link to the tutorial. I should have made something more obvious :-\

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dohhh, im silly
thanks buddy :slight_smile:

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now i cant figure it out…

on (release) {
loadText = new loadVars();

                                       site where the txt file is located
loadText.load("http://ngsf.ausgamers.com/iansrealm/stuff.txt");
// creating the loadVarsText function
loadText.onLoad = function() {
      dynamic text box     whats this?
    boxtext.text = this.kirupatext;
};

}

:slight_smile:

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Tell us more. What’s wrong exactly?

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hi… i have followed the dynamic text scroller example in this site… and i managed to work it out on my had disk, it works… the txt file loads into the swf.
But when i upload both the swf and txt file in the same directory in the server and it does not seem to work… at first i thought it was loading but, fifteen minute for a 3kb txt file… thats not right… or is it? can you please help me out here?

thanks

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in the text file, for example sake, we will call it NEWS.
in the first line of the txt file, have
NEWS=
info info info
bla bla bla
etc etc etc…
so,
on (release) {
loadText = new loadVars();

site where the txt file is located
loadText.load(“http://url/news.txt”);
// creating the loadVarsText function
loadText.onLoad = function() {
dynamic text box whats this?
name of dynamic text box.text = this.NEWS;
};
}

this should work

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hey Ian thanks for the reply, the thing i dont get is in the code the on (release)? is the text load function on a button… or is the scrip in the first frame of the movie. and yes in the text file (i call te text var ‘news’) in the first line of the txt file i have ‘news=’ but it still doesnt work.
Is it due to the server or anything like that…? do i need to set the permissions of the txt file?
so any ideas?.. i actually uploaded the source file available in this site with the same code and the txt file… and it still does not work! waaah:(

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well, thats just wacked.
Its a button, definatly… might need to ask someone that actually knows Actionscript :slight_smile:

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there was some error with ur code, just paste this code into ur MAIN Timeline and define the variables from ur textfile!

buttonInstanceName.onRelease = function (){ // The New MX Callback Feature! new kind of event
loadText = new LoadVars();// sets a new LoadVars Object called loadText
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {// Create onLoad, ill define a success parameter
if (success){// it will show if the loading success
	DynamicTextFieldInstance.text = TextFileVariable//plz create a dynamic text field and define an instance name to it, 
	//and then just paste ur external variable name into the code
}else{
	DynamicTextFieldInstance.text = "Error Loading File";
	//it will show on the text field error if it was unable to load!
}
};
loadText.load("http://url/news.txt");//now we could simply load our file
}

this should work!

hope ull find this post useful!

yours,
h88