Writing to a Dynamic Text Box?

programming flash
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Just wondering if anyone knew how to have a flash program that you can wright whatever say “News” to a .txt file?

The way I have it set up is, you enter a password, then it loads a screen where you can update the news as you please. And is will wright over whatever is in the .txt file. Is this possible? Thanks in advance.:cowboy:

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I use blogger to write to a txt file and then load that in a dynamic text box. Works nice for a news section. However if you have a way of updating your txt file already then who needs blogger :slight_smile:

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Thanks byis,
I have no clue what blogger is, but the purpose I am trying to achive here is I made a website for my pops company and it is easy just to dl the text file and edit it then upload it. But no so easy for people who rarely use a comp. So I would like to have a flash page that I could enter a url and then enter a pass and if it was correct load the screen to enter text. Then have a button say “send” that would wright all the text on the screen to the .txt file. Also would be nice to implement “text=” into the code so you do not have to type it everytime.
Thanks!

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Ok, then blogger would work great for what your trying to do. First go to Blogger and sign up an account - its free. I have an example below on how to setup the blogger template and then the AS needed in Flash. Hope this helps.

Example Blogger Template

blogtext=<Blogger><BlogDateHeader></BlogDateHeader> <$BlogItemBody$> br br font color="#999999"
Posted by <$BlogItemAuthor$> on <$BlogItemDateTime$>
/font br br br </Blogger>

Note: I left out the <> tags on the html so it would show up on the forum.

Text Field Settings

Instance Name = scroller
Dynamic Text
Render Text as HTML

Action Script

loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load(“http://xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx.txt”);
// creating the loadVarsText function
loadText.onLoad = function() {
scroller.html = true;
scroller.htmlText = this.blogtext;
};

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thanks again byis,
Thanks a kewl setup they have. I may give it a try if this doesn’t work.

I finally got it set up now where you can enter a pass.
If correct make it go to a certain frame where I can enter whatever text I want. Now if I can just get it to wright it to the .txt file I want on the server it will be all good.