Dynamically loading content

programming flash
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Hi all,
I’m sure there is a tutorial somewhere out there covering this, i just can’t find it. I want to dynamically load content into a text box, and sure thats easy enough, but in the .txt file i want to load from, I want to not only be able to have the text, but control over the font and font size… is this possible?
Also, if the text is too long, i want a scroll bar to appear, with certain colours on it, i.e. based around fx(00ff00) so all green, just different shades…

I hope this makes sense to people, cause reading it over it only just does to me.

Thanks all,
ignusb

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you can’t find it?

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/multiple_dynamictext.htm

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err, that really doesnt answer my question, that’s just how to dynamically load text, but I want to know how to do it with formatting in the .txt file.
And also, I don’t always want the scrollbar there.

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what do you mean formatting?

You can just forget about the scroll bar part, just leave it out.

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I’m trying to apply font styles and sizes to text in a .txt file, but with the possibility of different fonts and sizes in each file…
I have no idea how to do this, but just to give an idea, something like this:

fnt=arial; size=24; colour=ff0000 &title goes here&
fnt=times new roman; size=16; colour=ababab &body copy in here&

I hope this has given you an idea of what I am looking for.

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http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=Flash_MX_2004&file=00001040.html
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scotty(-:

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or you could use css to format the external text:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/cssfile.htm