Need help targetting txt in a movie in a movie

programming flash
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I have my main flash website, inthis I have seperate text-only and flash movie sections, divided by buttons. My problem is that I’m not too hot on linking to embeded tiems, ive tried many variations… heres what I have

External SWF with a dynamic text box only. File is called “TextMov.swf” and the text itself is called “BigText”

It is loaded into a movie clip (used solely as container) called “MainMovie”

The Main movie, with buttons etc. is called “Index”

Text file I would like to load is called "Welcome.txt

If i want to load an external text file into the loaded dynamic text file I used the following code in the first frame of the loaded site.

  • I have put sample text into the text file just so I could see if it was loading properly and it does appear once the frame is played, but I will also use this code in buttons (currently loading welcome page automatically)

loadMovie(“textmov.swf”, _root.MainMovie);
loadVariables(“Welcome.txt”, “_root.MainMovie.TextMov.BigText”)

I have tried as many permutations of the last targeting code as I can think of, with and without quotemarks, root etc. Do I need to include parentfile.container.moviename.textfile?

A newbie question basically.

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The first line of the code loads the movie with the dynamic textbox in it, so it loads teh movie and then populates it.

Or you could point me to a dot-matrix tutorial i heard about but can’t find yet.

I’ve made a clean example of what I’m trying to do, im sure its something simple ive missed but can’t find anyone else asking questions :slight_smile:

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