Scrollable text from outside source

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i recently read thru the basic scrollable text tutorial, but i’ve hit a bit of a snag: the scrollable text tutorial only shows how to use text typed into the variable of the action scripting box. What I need is to take text from a .txt file and make it scrollable. I know how to scroll text and I know how to load external .txt files into flash, but I need help combining these two. I’m not too good at scripting so I might need a little more than just suggestions. Like, say, instructions?

thanks guys.

~(M)att

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Howdy… Try this then… =)

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awesome, cyanblue.

this.loadVariables("", 0); command is what I needed. thanks a whole lot. I’ll be back with more questions when i run into problems.

btw, do you know any good flash 5 books that deal with website actionscripting?

~(M)att

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I think this.loadVariables("", 0); should be
this.loadVariables("");

That file has been created long long time ago when I was bad at ActionScript, so just look it up and see what you can use out of it…

Book… I don’t know… I don’t have anything right now, but usually Friends of Ed’s books are good for basics…

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what does the ("", 0); do and why does it not need to be there?

Friends of Ed’s, huh? i’ll check em out at barnes. so far i’ve read thru lynda weinman’s Flash 5 Hands On Training, which was excellent for teaching flash 5 from scratch.

again, thanks for all the help.

~(M)att

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That 0 part look like the one that I didn’t erase… I thin I was using loadVariablesNum within that line before and was loading into the level 0 or something and forgot to get rid of it after I decided to use loadVariables function…

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i see. thanks

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No problem… =)