Image not loading externally

hey folks,

I’m doing a tutorial found here:

http://www.flash-db.com/Tutorials/loading/loadingData.php?page=2

The problem I’m having is loading my .jpg image.

I’ve attached the .zip file with my .fla the .txt file and the .jpg image.

any ideas?

okay a few things wrong. the most obvious is your Actionscript:

myData = new LoadVars()
myData.load(“anastasio.txt”)

you don’t even have a text file called anastasio.txt
Your text file name is:
loaddata.txt

so change your AS to:

myData = new LoadVars()
myData.load(“loaddata.txt”)

then one more thing. Open loaddata.txt, you have:

Title=loading external data&Comments=This sure is a pain in the butt&Image=Bella_eve3.JPG

that is fine and all but after Bella_eve3.JPG you have a bunch of spaces or line feeds or something. Either take them out or change your text file to this:

&Title=loading external data&Comments=This sure is a pain in the butt&Image=Bella_eve3.JPG&

it is always a good idea to put ‘&’ before and after the last variable in the text file so that flash does not read in extra whitespace.

After that it worked fine for me

-Jake