Dynamic Text Fields

programming flash
1

Hello,

I am new to Flash MX and I havent got any experience with previous versions of Flash.

Basically I am making a flash site for a portfolio I am setting up.

I would like to know how to be able make a flash site that when you click on a link, it will load the relevant text into a box, then when you click on another link, it will then clear that text and then put the new text into it and so on and so on.

I know how to make a text box and load up a notepad file, but thats it.

Any help would be great.

Thanks,
William

2

make the text file with all of your variables in it. something like

&txt1=blah blah blah… four score and seven years ago…&txt2=…I will not eat them on a plane I will not eat them on a train…&txt3=…cried the raven, never more&

load the text file into the _root timeline.

create your dynamic text field and give it an instance name of “textOutPut”

then each button would have something like this

on(release){
_root.textOutPut.text=_root.txt1;
}

on(release){
_root.textOutPut.text=_root.txt2;
}

on(release){
_root.textOutPut.text=_root.txt3;
}