Loading actionscript at runtime

programming flash
1

I am trying to load a text file that contains 125 objects that can change each time the movie is run. The objects are in the object initializer format of object {name1: value1…name4: value4}; and are part of my actionscript.

I can load the file with no problem and view them in a scrolled text window but I don’t know how to convert them to actionscript as they would be if I used #include to load the file.

Any ideas?

Yellowjacket

2

if it will work using include file, why are you trying to load them into variables? Just curious.

3

#include loads the file at compile time so once you have published the movie you can not change it. It want to change the
movie each time it runs

Yellowjacket

4

one way…

since flash will only import strings, so you could put them all in a string delimited by whatever characters (in this case “,” and “:”).

so in your text file (myVars.txt):


objStr = obj1:value1,obj2:value2,obj3:value3

then in the fla, load that string, and parse it into an object by splitting the string by whatever characters:


content = new LoadVars();
content.onLoad = function(){
	this.obj = {};
	var i,b,a = this.objStr.split(",");
	for(i in a){
		b = a*.split(":");
		this.obj[b[0]] = b[1];
	}
}
content.load("myVars.txt");

that will put all the pairs in _root.content.obj.

5

good to see you Supra!