Loading text from external .txt

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Hey all, im still new to actionscript, so please bear with me.

I followed the dynamic text tutorial on this site, and it worked perfect in my test .fla, however it isn’t working in my actual implementation…

Basically, I have a movieclip that is several layers deep into the movie that I want to load the text, but for some reason its not loading…

I take the same movie clip, and I put it on the main stage and it works just fine.

So somehow the placement of the MC in the flash movie is screwing the linking… any idea how I fix this?

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its probably not that - its probably the referencing that you are getting wrong…referencing stuff is always a cause of problems…

test your movie then go to the Debug menu and pick “List Variables” - chances are your text files variables are in there somewhere - do a Ctrl-F to search for them if you have to…

theres no reason why it shouldnt work if your inside several movie clips.

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Ok, I think I found the problem… and it doesn’t make ANY sense (to me at least)

The basic structure is this:
Stage>MC1>MC2 (with two layers, one is acting as a layermask)>MC3>TextBoxes

If I delete the layer mask, suddenly it all works!

But I need the mask…

so any ideas?

Thanks

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it sounds like u have set the mask mannually…
if you want to mask dynamic Text you have to set the mask dynamically
eg

myTextLayer.setMask(maskLayer)

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aha! The setMask worked!

I have a whole new set of issues I need to figure out, but this helped a ton! Thank you!