Dynamic, changing text

programming flash
1

I am trying to create a image gallery with captions.

I have a text box on a MC, my images on a separate MC, and my buttons on another.

I can load a single text file into the text box, using the buttons, with a load variable action.

however i am lost as to how to load a different text file into the same text box from a different button.

IE. button 1 loads text 1 in textbox ‘caps’
Button 2 loads text 2 in textbox ‘caps’

My solution is to have all my text as separate MC’s on the text box and each button does a tell target.

My scripting on a scale of 10 is 2
Pls help

2

you buttons code should look something like this:

button1:

on(release){
_root.caps=“text1 goes here”;
}

button2:

on(release){
_root.caps=“text2 goes here”;
}

button3:

on(release){
_root.caps=“text3 goes here”;
}

This code assumes that your textbox is on the root and that in properties panel for the textbox, in the var section, you’ve put the variable name “caps” (without quotes).

3

Sorry for the slow response, my Internet connection had probs

That works, I can put the text into the action, much better than the movie clips.

I didn’t know it could be done so simply.

I did however want the buttons to load the text from external files, but at the moment i am in no position to dog a working solution.

If it is relatively simple or doesn’t take major con’script’ion i wouldn’t mind

Thanks for the help.

4

your text file has to have variables declared like

text1=“this is my text for button 1”&text2=“this is my text for button2”

put all this into one file, call the file whatever you want (like button.txt)

use loadvariables(“button.txt”,"_root.caps")

5

Ok, But just a few more Questions,

Where does the action go,
and how does each button know which text to display?

I have seen something similar but couldn’t work it out!!

:-\

Cheers for you time