Dynamic text Field

programming flash
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Hi

I’m trying to create a scrolling text in Flash MX that will go horizontally from side to side of the stage, each scrolling text will be a number of words each separated of each other by a bullet or small circle.
The scrolling text will be a Movie Clip with one single Dynamic text field that will load it’s variables from a .txt document, that dynamic field will duplicate it self as many times as the amount of variables on the .txt document.

So I was thinking that if I created variables using a numbers like 1 = word, 2 = another word ect. To whatever numbers of words I want to be displayed on the scrolling text I could use a script on the first frame that could say something like this. (Dynamic text field has a variable called ticker)

loadVaraibles(TickerText.txt, this)
ticker = 1 + “.”

Now comes the questions

Can flash read more than one variable in a single .txt file? Or it read on and assume that everything else within the file is just part of the first variable?

If this is possible how can I tell flash duplicate this dynamic text field as many times as the amount of variables on this particular .txt file?

I know this all sound really confusing but I hope that some one can understand me and give me some tips to get this to work or maybe make a simple sample of it and upload it on my server so I can see how can this be done.

ftp://65.49.66.147/

Thanks

Alex :slight_smile:

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what you’re trying to do sounds confusing, but i think i see what you’re asking. if you want to load variables from a txt file, you can load as many variables as there are in the file. the way variables are separated in a txt file is through an ampersand (&). for example:

[font=courier]
firstvar=15&secondvar=10&stringtemp=“this+is+a+test”
[/font]

in that sample “file” there are three variables, firstvar, secondvar, and stringtemp.

and as for duplicating the dynamic text field, your best bet is to create a movieclip with a dynamic text field in it, then duplicate that movieclip as many times as there are variables, if that’s what you want to do. to keep an easy track of how many variables there are, try putting some numeric significance to the variables, like var1, var2, var3, …varn. i’ll further explain how to retrieve how many variables there are if you understand up to this point.