# \[FMX\] AS loadVars() problem

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-as-loadvars-problem/31222>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 19, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-as-loadvars-problem/31222 "2003-09-19T17:48:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-as-loadvars-problem/31222/1 "2003-09-19T17:48:32Z")

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I wanna create some sort of actionscripted typewriter which loads its content from an external file, but i can’t seem to get the code to work properly!

This is what i got till now:

2 layers:

- one with a textfield called ‘textbox’
- one with the actions

A textfile which contains: waarde=Wannaloadtextfromanexternaltextfile!

4 frames, in the first frame i load the textfile this way:

[AS]q = 1;  
loadText = new loadVars();  
loadText.load(“data.txt”,this);  
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {  
if (success) {  
trace(this.waarde);  
text = this.waarde;  
} else {  
trace(“Error”);  
}  
};[/AS]

In the second frame is the typewriter code, pretty straigtforward:  
[AS]if (q \< text.length) {  
textbox = text.substring(0, q);  
q++  
} else {  
textbox = text;  
gotoAndStop(4);  
}[/AS]

And the third frame just loops back to the second for the typewriter effect.

Fourth frame is empty

The problem is that when i assign the value of “text” in the first frame this way : \<-- text = “Wannaloadtextfromanexternaltextfile!”; --\> (witout the comment tags ofcourse) the typewriter works fine but when i load the var from the textfile nothing happens, the trace works fine and displays the contents of the var but the typewriter displays nothing.

the weird this is that when i add this after all the code in frame 1 it works fine: text = “azerty”;  
But when i add this it doesn’t: text = “a”;

So when i overwrite the var with the azerty value suddenly it contains the correct value in the next frame, when i assign only one character to it the script doesn’t work anymore. Some weird \*\*\*\* here :o

I included the code for you guys to look at!

I hope someone can help me out here.