hi, I was doing the news flasher tutorial, and I dont really get the step 5 and 6. It tells me to publish an movie with nothing but an empty text field and component, then open the notpad. the part I dont get is…do I open a new notepad, and then copy and paste all that format to it? what do I name it? or when I published the moive it does also publishe a notepad file? HELP!!
Step VI:
Open notepad, then copy and paste that text in there, you can change the text to whatever you want, but they just add that text as an example.
The “|” symbol creates the next line of text that scrolls into view.
You save your file as a .txt file in the same directory as your Flash movie.
You can name the file whatever, but the extension must be .txt and the name of the file must be noted in the comonent properties.
As the tutorial states
– PATH TO TXT: ‘set a path to your external TXT’
the TXT must look like this:
&content=text no 1 here|text no2 here|text no 3 here&
the amount of your text is dynamically handled.
that is where you put the path to your text, and since it is in the same directory just put yourFile.txt.
To get to edit the component properties just click on the component you attached to your textbox, then open the properties panel (CTRL+F3) and voila.
I tried it but still doesnt work… is it possibile for you to post a fla file as an simple example for me?! so I can see where I did wrong. Thank you!!
I got the same Problem, when I tried to make that newsflasher.
Maybe someone could post a ready Newsflasher+txt that would be cool. Tx
Hmmm, two people with the same problem and I just followed the tutorial exactly as it said and mine works great.
Must be doing something wrong on your end.
