Hey all-- brand steeking newbie here. I haven’t been able to figure out the answer to this issue with the other posts/tutorials, but there’s a good chance I saw it and didn’t know it. Anyway, here goes:
I’d like to create a ListBox to change the source of a dynamic text box. Big picture, this will be for the lyrics section of a musician’s site-- in the ListBox go the names of the songs, and when someone clicks a song, the lyrics are displayed in the dynamic text box.
I’ve got a textbox (“Lyric”) and a ListBox (“lyriclist”), but I can’t figure out how to put them together to change the source of the box.
I did look at the components tutorials, but I’m not sure what to apply to this situation. Specifically, I can’t figure out how to change the source of a dynamic text box.
Ah yes-- I’ve looked at this one for a while. My confusion is this: The listbox tute shows how to display sections of set text as you click on the menu items. I want to use the menu items to call external text in a dynamic text box.
For example: I click on menu item “Mac’n’Cheese.” Textbox displays the file “Mac’n’Cheese.txt”, which contains my mother’s recipe for Macaroni and Cheese that I can update on a regular basis as she changes her margarine substitute regularly. I have to believe that as powerful as Flash MX is, I don’t have to go in and type the whole recipe into the code every time I want to change it, no?
Well, no, off course, but as I said, everything is in the tute. If you have problem importing text, there’s a tute about that also (something called scrolling imported text or something like that).
