External text file question

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hi, i’m making a site for a friend, and he wants to be able to update a “videos” section hisself.

now, i know you can load text files into flash externaly, but is there anyway of being able to ad links to certain parts of text through an externaly loaded text file? so when you press a certain word, it opens up a new window with a certain url.

can this be done?

thanks :kir:

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Of course, when you load a text file, you can add any html in it (except like tables and stuff).

Let’s say the dynamic text box that was loading the text had the variable name of videoLink.

Then the text file had:

videoLink=Hi. We have a new video for you guys! It’s gauranteed to be off the shiznit so check it out!<a href=“VIDEOLINKHERE”>Click Here To See It</a>.

3

i see, cool. thanks. :slight_smile:

4

No problem ;).

5

hi, one more thing, how would i make the url open in a new window?
would i just put…
<a href=“http://www.cartoonfox.hostrocket.com, _blank”>Click Here To See It</a>.
or is it not like flash :smiley:

thanks

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If you’re still talking about it loading from an external file, then yes that’s it.