A couple things for something I’m working on.
First, what would be the best way to clip text grabbed from an XML file? Basically what I’m trying to do is have a text box show the first x words from an XML file. I realize I could just not put a scrollbar on the dynamic text box and then load the whole thing and just not have it all be visible, but I’m looking at having a few of these on the page at once (and they’re going to be pretty large amounts of text per XML file), so this would really use up too many resources.
This leads me to my second question. Is it possible to have the filenames of the XML files Flash loads the data from themselves be grabbed from an external file? Basically, I’m trying to have a text file that’d basically say “the first one is found in this xml file, the second one in this other file here,” etc., and then set it so that Flash gets the filenames from there, instead of my having to specify a filename for each dynamic text box. I’m trying to make this as easily-updateable as I can.
Thanks in advance!
