Using a htlm file to populate info in a scrolling text box?

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Hi All,

As you can probably guess I’m new to flash but it seems to be getting easier as I program in it more and more.

Now I’m stumped, I’m not sure on how too go about populating text boxes??? I can enter the text manually into the text box but I can’t seem to populate it with anything else.

Ultimatley I would like to populate the scrolling text box with a plain text html file with a couple of graphics in it to be scrolled with the text.

Or maybe I’m going about this all wrong??? Any help is greatly appreciated!

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Scrolling text and graphics together can be a real pain in the butt for a Flash developer. Populating text fields is pretty easy though.

Lets say you have a dynamic text field, with a “variable” name of
_root.myTextBox

Now, if you declare that variable on the main timeline, it will show up in that box. ie

myTextBox=This is an example of a dynamic text box.;

on the main timeline would show. Likewise if in a movie clip you placed

_root.myTextBox=This is an example of a dynamic text box.;

it would show up in the text box as well.

Try out that simple example in a test movie, and then ask me about html in dynamic text boxes and I’ll explain from there.