Is there some way to load pictures/text into an SWF without it actually being in that SWF file? For example, if someone clicks on a thumbnail, i want it to load the picture, however, since there are many pictures on my website, i don’t want them all to load with the flash itself. Likewise, with text- i write a lot on my page and i want people to have the option of reviewing older writings, but i don’t want it to all load right off. If anyone knows a good way to do this, i would REALLY appreciate it! Thanks!
I use MX, so I can’t really help you with dynamically loading .txt, but I do know that is possible.
As for dynamically loading images, that is only in MX. Flash 5 does not support that. Unless you save each image as an .swf and use loadMovie to load the image into your main flash movie.
Loading txt in F5 is really easy, just use loadVariable “myText.txt” and separate your different parts by &
example: &firstParagraph=blablabla&secondP=moreblabla&…
then in your swf, you can display each of the variables
(&firstParagraph, &secondP, &…) in a txt field with the same variable name
If you want to load different txt files, just link to each with a button…
Thanks!