Loadmovie, url = loaded from textfile

1

Well, this is my problem: I have a textfile: with:

  1. some text to be loaded into a textbox
  2. an url of an image I want to load into a movieclip
loadVariables("mytextfile.txt", "_root");
urlpic = _root.urlintext;
loadMovie(urlpic, "_root.pic");

This doesn’t work, and neither does: url1 = _root.url1.text;
I know this can be a stupid question, but I haven’t got any idea…

2

well what have you got your textfile?
Also check if the text file is in the same folder as the flash movie!

3

oh that’s not the problem, he just won’t use the text inside the url-textbox because I loaded it into it using loadvars. If you really want to know what’s in my text-file:

urlintext=here comes the url for my pic&text=here comes my text
4

what is “url1 = _root.url1.text;”?
btw you testing it client-side?

5

oh sorry, my mistake, I copied the wrong text, it should be this:
“urlpic = _root.urlintext.text;” doesn’t work. And tell me how I should test it client-side? Never done that I think…

6

I mean that you did not upload it did ya? You just tested the main movie on your computer?

7

that’s right, does that change anything? I don’t think so (could be) have you got any idea how to assing the text inside a textbox to a variable and then use the variable as a loadmovie-url, 'cause it really doesn’t work when you use my script above… Thanks

8

how come iyt won’t work… this is pissing me off!
Gimme the fla, textfile n’ stuff I wanna see wut’s wrong!! :pirate:

9

here u go… download the source fla…

also use this code

myvars = new LoadVars();
myvars.load(“text.txt”); // here you could make this path dynamic
myvars.onLoad = function(){
//this is where you tell what flash what to do with the variables loaded from the txt file.
_root.textf.text = myvars.title;
loadMovie(myvars.url,_root.pic);
}

oh yeah and also a test.jpg file in the root to test, i forgot to include it in the zip

Jakub Koter