FIXED!!! You can ignore this post! Unless you came here by google and having same problems i am!
Hi All, first post here. I’ve done a lot of tinkering and reading…and researching and researching…and it’s driving me nuts. I always research till i’m blue in the face before i make a post, anyways here it goes.
My goal: load a .swf file from a movie clip, modify the text field of an input text.
My scheme. I have a movieclip called page4, when a button called “quote” is released it loads contact.swf into a movieclip “contactholder.” Great, that’s easy works fine.
I need to edit a input text field called poi within contact.swf.
quote.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie("contact.swf", "contactholder");
_root.page4.contactholder.poi.text = "PRODUCT NAME";
};
The poi’s text field is not taking the “product name” in.
I need to modify that field when the button is pressed this way i can use my contact.swf repeatedly and update the poi field when different quote buttons are pressed with a corressponding product name.
Seems like this should be so easy, but, it refuses to work.
Thanks in advance. I’d post the .fla, but it’s corporate work for a defense contractor i recently started working for (told them i didn’t really know much programming just some basic AS!)
EDIT: I did some retooling around. brought that contact.swf into my main movie (it’s a contact form with some AS that talks to some coldfusion, no big deal) so that everything is in one movie and tried this
quote.onRelease = function() {
contactholder._visible = true;
_root.page4.contactholder.poi.text = "PRODUCT NAME";
};
So it seems to be some sort of pathing issue?
EDIT: WOW!!!
contactholder.poi.text = “PRODUCT NAME”;
Just doing that seemed to do the trick, i guess after staring at this for so long i was going overkill on stuff tryign to make sure there were no mistakes…Wow…ok i got it!
DISREGARD THIS STUPID POST! Sorry! Thanks to anyone who would have responded!
